<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Pascale Fournier ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pascale Fournier ]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:56:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Fulbright Canada and Maple Leaf Foundation Announce 2026 Community Action Program Grant Recipients ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ottawa, Canada - Fulbright Canada, in partnership with the Maple Leaf Foundation, is proud to announce the 2026 recipients of the Community Action Program (CAP) grant, an initiative that empowers Fulbright and Killam alums to translate academic insight into meaningful, community-driven impact across Canada and the United States. This year’s recipients exemplify the program’s mission: bridging research and lived experience to address pressing social, environmental, and public health challenges...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/fulbright-canada-and-maple-leaf-foundation-announce-2026-community-action-program-grant-recipients-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab02409d408d9f2309ed9cb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:21:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_359a917697c24cb083aa5a22f9f64278~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_540,h_358,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fulbright Canada and Maple Leaf Foundation Announce 2026 Community Action Program Grant Recipients ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ottawa, Canada - Fulbright Canada, in partnership with the Maple Leaf Foundation, is proud to announce the 2026 recipients of the Community Action Program (CAP) grant, an initiative that empowers Fulbright and Killam alums to translate academic insight into meaningful, community-driven impact across Canada and the United States. This year’s recipients exemplify the program’s mission: bridging research and lived experience to address pressing social, environmental, and public health challenges...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/fulbright-canada-and-maple-leaf-foundation-announce-2026-community-action-program-grant-recipients</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab02329934de94835e57980</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_359a917697c24cb083aa5a22f9f64278~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_540,h_358,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qui décide de l’identité de vos enfants ? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[La ministre des Services aux Autochtones, Mandy Gull-Masty (au centre à gauche), tient dans ses bras Annora Crowe, âgée de 6 mois, sur la Colline du Parlement à Ottawa, dans le cadre d’une cérémonie crie visant à saluer l’arrivée d’un nouvel enfant. La Presse, le 30 avril 2026 Après avoir déclaré des pans de la Loi sur les Indiens inconstitutionnels sur la reconnaissance du statut, la Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique avait donné au gouvernement fédéral jusqu’au 30 avril1 pour modifier...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/qui-d%C3%A9cide-de-l-identit%C3%A9-de-vos-enfants-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f68644ff5d2df7d845f10</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:49:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_b99fd103506f4648bb4b9d7e245452c1~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Decides Your Children's Identity? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minister of Indigenous Services Mandy Gull-Masty (centre left) holds six-month-old Annora Crowe on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, during a Cree ceremony welcoming the arrival of a new child. La Presse, April 30th 2026 After striking down parts of the Indian Act relating to status recognition as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of British Columbia gave the federal government until April 30 to amend the 1876 statute. The deadline will not be met. Why draw out the delay, ask the signatories of...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/qui-d%C3%A9cide-de-l-identit%C3%A9-de-vos-enfants</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a23395f861147e38395ea02</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_b99fd103506f4648bb4b9d7e245452c1~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Put Human Rights Back at the Heart of the Francophone Project ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bus in Dakar, Senegal La Presse, March 20th 2026 At a time when the international order is hardening, when the institutions responsible for defending human rights are being weakened by the brutal return of power politics, the Francophonie cannot afford to be timid or to stand back. On the contrary, it must clearly reaffirm one of its founding vocations: to be a space for the active promotion of freedoms and human dignity. Human rights are not an abstract principle. They are one of the most...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/let-us-put-human-rights-back-at-the-heart-of-the-francophone-project</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f69da4ff5d2df7d846028</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_b2d625a55fce472e95a4ab1cc4259784~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remettons les droits de la personne au cœur du projet francophone ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Autocar à Dakar, au Sénégal Publié par La Presse, le 20 mars 2026 À l’heure où l’ordre international se durcit, où les institutions chargées de défendre les droits de la personne sont fragilisées par le retour brutal des rapports de force, la Francophonie ne peut se permettre d’être timorée, dans une posture de retrait. Elle doit au contraire réaffirmer clairement l’une de ses vocations fondamentales : être un espace de promotion active des libertés et de la dignité humaine. Les droits de la...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/remettons-les-droits-de-la-personne-au-c%C5%93ur-du-projet-francophone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2336f1367ed35011d8ed34</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:55:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_b2d625a55fce472e95a4ab1cc4259784~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[L’héritage de Murray Sinclair]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO DARRYL DYCK, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE CANADIENNE Murray Sinclair a présidé la Commission de vérité et réconciliation sur les pensionnats autochtones, dont le rapport final a été déposé en 2015. La Presse, le 5 nov. 2024 L’ancien sénateur du Manitoba et président de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation est mort le 4 novembre. La professeure de droit civil Pascale Fournier salue son travail et émet le souhait que l’on poursuive son œuvre. Le plus important, c’est le chemin. Le chemin...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/l-h%C3%A9ritage-de-murray-sinclair</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8671996c395e7dcc3a5c86</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:22:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_905dfb0e5a784a7d863c95b88941af0f~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murray Sinclair's Legacy ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO DARRYL DYCK, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE CANADIENNE Murray Sinclair chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools, whose final report was released in 2015. La Presse, Nov. 5th  2024 The former Manitoba senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission died on November 4. Civil law professor Pascale Fournier pays tribute to his work and expresses the hope that it will be carried forward. What matters most is the path. The path already travelled and the one...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/murray-sinclair-s-legacy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f6099969805bf16e14824</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:14:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_905dfb0e5a784a7d863c95b88941af0f~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terres de feu, Promesse de l’aube]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO JACK GUEZ, ARCHIVES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE De la fumée s’élève au-dessus de Gaza après un bombardement israélien, le 2 janvier. La Presse, le 10 janv. 2024 Terres de feu. Terres à feu et à sang. Terres sacrées et soufflées par une empreinte d’éternité. Terres exclusives et ancestrales, reconduites et vénérées depuis et par des générations. Terres d’accueil et de recueil, de rassemblements et de tiraillements. Terres célébrées, éclatées, déchirées, tuées. L’année 2023 a tiré sa révérence...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/terres-de-feu-promesse-de-l-aube</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a867396c6c8f2fd385fdd71</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:28:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_4dea86aa55ca460aa929e890c38463a6~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lands of Fire, Promise of Dawn ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO JACK GUEZ, ARCHIVES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Smoke rises over Gaza following an Israeli bombardment on January 2. La Presse, Jan. 10th  2024 Lands of fire. Lands put to fire and sword. Lands sacred and breathed upon by an imprint of eternity. Lands exclusive and ancestral, handed down and venerated by and through generations. Lands of welcome and of gathering, of assembly and of strife. Lands celebrated, shattered, torn apart, killed. The year 2023 took its leave against a backdrop of...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/lands-of-fire-promise-of-dawn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f5f83ab4606dd8d2f9088</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:10:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_4dea86aa55ca460aa929e890c38463a6~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[La parole libre et la tyrannie de la parole ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO DAVID BOILY, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE « Mes chéris, je devrai vous le dire un jour, le monde est incommensurablement gris », écrit Pascale Fournier. La Presse, le 26 juin 2021 L’autrice s’adresse à ses trois fils. La cité explose. Tous et toutes tentent de la réclamer, de la reconstruire, de l’ériger à coups de mots, de certitudes, de droits, de division linguistique. Les chants sont si fiers, si orgueilleux, qu’ils n’écoutent même plus le refrain de l’Autre. Le vacarme ambiant cache...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/la-parole-libre-et-la-tyrannie-de-la-parole</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8674b9e087e30b37e5ba10</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 03:34:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_550f1763a7fd4fe99029c469e323d4e7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Expression and the Tyranny of Speech ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO DAVID BOILY, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE « Mes chéris, je devrai vous le dire un jour, le monde est incommensurablement gris », écrit Pascale Fournier. La Presse, June 26th 2021 The author addresses her three sons. The city is exploding. Everyone is trying to claim it, to rebuild it, to raise it up with words, with certainties, with rights, with linguistic division. The songs are so proud, so full of pride, that they no longer even hear the Other's refrain. The surrounding din clumsily conceals...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/free-expression-and-the-tyranny-of-speech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f5bab969805bf16e14430</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:54:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_550f1763a7fd4fe99029c469e323d4e7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_924,h_616,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public Servants Are Already Neutral ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE La Presse, Jan. 22nd 2014 In a recent opinion piece published in the New York Times, Minister Jean-François Lisée defended the merits of his government's Charter of Values. He extolled the virtues of a strict secularism, contrasting it with the failures of multiculturalism in Europe. Mr. Lisée also wondered why those who sharply criticize the ban on wearing religious symbols in the public service are not equally outraged by the requirement of political...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/public-servants-are-already-neutral</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f5ad5969805bf16e14394</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:48:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_722cc6dde298416b988e515cf738baaa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_924,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les fonctionnaires sont déjà neutres]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE La Presse, le 22 janv. 2014 Dans une récente lettre d'opinion publiée dans le New York Times, le ministre Jean-François Lisée défendait les mérites de la Charte des valeurs de son gouvernement. Il vantait les vertus d'une laïcité stricte, l'opposant aux ratés du multiculturalisme en Europe. M. Lisée se demandait également pourquoi ceux et celles qui critiquent vivement l'interdiction du port de symboles religieux dans la fonction publique ne s'offusquent...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/photo-olivier-jean-archives-la-presseles-fonctionnaires-sont-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-neutres</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a867e41c6c8f2fd385ff8c6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:14:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_722cc6dde298416b988e515cf738baaa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_924,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Own Bias ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photo Alain Roberge, archives La Presse Educator Nada Chouhaita plays with the children at the Oasis Bout'chou daycare in Laval. During Question Period at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Gouin MNA Nicolas Girard brandished a Ministry of Families document justifying the allocation of spaces at this daycare on the grounds of a "homogeneous environment." La Presse, Sept. 16th 2013 Dear Ms. Marois, I write to you with all the force and immodesty of words, pouring out in bursts, so great is my...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/our-own-bias</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f59c897176e39c1f95012</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:45:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_94572c99143d4bc783128f8e247d86f6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_924,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notre regard partial ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photo Alain Roberge, archives La Presse L'éducatrice Nada Chouhaita joue avec les enfants de la garderie Oasis Bout'chou, à Laval. Lors de la période des questions à l'Assemblée nationale mardi, le député de Gouin, Nicolas Girard, a brandi un document du ministère de la Famille qui justifie l'attribution de places dans cette garderie en mentionnant «milieu homogène».  La Presse, le 16 sept. 2013 Chère Madame Marois, je vous écris avec toute la force et l'impudeur des mots, qui se déversent en...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/notre-regard-partial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a867f56e087e30b37e5d612</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 04:17:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_94572c99143d4bc783128f8e247d86f6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_924,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repairing the Irreparable ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO: MARTIN ROY, LE DROIT Playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad sparked an outcry by seeking to cast Bertrand Cantat in the cycle Les Femmes, based on Sophocles and staged at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. La Presse, Apr. 22nd 2011 Wajdi, I write to you wearing several hats at once: those of a jurist, a woman, a law professor, a feminist and a mother. I have been thinking about you these past weeks. Your silence has inhabited me, run through me, as though it were audible, as though it spoke...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/en/post/repairing-the-irreparable</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9f588f4ff5d2df7d8452be</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:41:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_e2b13819b1b4432e9541286e2a8f32ec~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_922,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Réparer l'irréparable ]]></title><description><![CDATA[PHOTO: MARTIN ROY, LE DROIT Le dramaturge et metteur en scène, Wajdi Mouawad, a déclenché un tollé en voulant confier un rôle à Bertrand Cantat dans le cycle Les Femmes, de Sophocle, présenté au TNM. La Presse, le 22 avr. 2011 Wajdi, je t'écris en empruntant plusieurs chapeaux - ceux de juriste, femme, professeure de droit, féministe et maman. Je pense à toi depuis les dernières semaines. Ton silence m'a habitée et traversée, comme s'il était audible, qu'il parlait à travers son refus de...]]></description><link>https://www.drpascalefournier.ca/post/r%C3%A9parer-l-irr%C3%A9parable</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8680406c395e7dcc3a82d0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:22:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ca1f13_e2b13819b1b4432e9541286e2a8f32ec~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_922,h_615,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>pascalefournier</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>