« Au Québec, comme partout ailleurs, on est assez chicanier, et sur tous les sujets possibles. On peut l'expliquer de différentes façons. J'ai laissé de côté les rapports conflictuels entre le peuple québécois francophone et le peuple anglophone. »

« Pour moi, assez rapidement, c'est apparu comme une évidence que la littérature et les femmes en particulier adoptent le rôle contemporain de création de connaissances par le biais de la littérature qui devient un espace de théorisation des connaissances. » - Marie-Ève Bradette

"What I hope readers take away is that the Two Row Wampum is a living ethical framework for how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people move alongside one another today."

« Je m'intéressais beaucoup à tous les aspects ethnomusicologiques derrière les communautés et les castes en Inde. Les Kalbeliya ne sont pas très connus, mais leur danse l'est. »

[1/3] "I wonder too where we can be turning instead to community engagement. There is a real appetite out there for it, and we should recognize this as a research function."

[1/2] "For those of us in English, language, and philosophy, we need to be cognizant that words create worlds. How many of us are questioning things like the name “the cloud”? [...] They are borrowing all these words."

[1/3] "The problem with the conversation around trust is that we’re using small-t trust. I recently asked the question: What if AI had been mothered?"

[1/3] "One of the things I often ask myself, as an Indigenous person trying to maintain our own control of Indigenous data, is: if we think about ethical AI, how can we decolonize it and make it more ethical?"

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[1/2] "The unknown is where innovation is found; it's where most of us live as academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs."

[1/2] "Education doesn't translate to high income, job security, wealth creation or generating wealth. What it translates to is a circle of poverty because you're the last to get hired and first to get let go."

"During the pandemic, a lot of youth innovation was taking place, especially in the Black community. And I got to meet with some of the youth doing work across the country with limited resources."

[1/2] "There was a fear and precarity going into the PhD. When I got the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca funding, I felt seen and trusted with a great opportunity."

"PhDs bring a broad skillset to employers, and it’s important for them to look beyond the content of our thesis. There is a broader capacity to identify issues and clarify solutions that can be taken into account. The social sciences are good at training us to develop a better sense of empathy."

"One of the bigger challenges is this ferocious competition for attention span, the paradox of social media. It’s this terrible paradox: there is more of a supply of ideas than ever, and it is harder and harder to take dialogue and turn it into decisions. There’s an optimistic note, though."

"I see lobbyists fall into a trap, which is top-down thinking: if only the minister knew, the minister would fix it for me. My recipe is everything everywhere all at once, to quote the movie title."

[1/3] "The humanities and social sciences, over the course of the 20th century and until now, have been providing the thought processes and ideas, and the empirically grounded research, that help us identify and keep at bay the forces of imperialism, despotism, racism, and megalomania."

[1/2] "In a room full of humanities and social sciences scholars and community stakeholders, I cannot underscore the significance of you as a class of intellectuals and thinkers enough."

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"The initial part of the agreement with the government that first came over, within the Treaty Six story, [...] we utilized those teachings that we had [...], we assumed that we were making the same type of treaty, only to find out later that it wasn't quite like that." - Jerry Saddleback

"The whole society was based [...] on the protection of women and children. We come from matriarchal societies. It was women who governed, who decided what process to use to make decisions in government. We come from a culture of consensus, we nurtured a culture of debate." JoAnne Saddleback

[1/2] "It is a challenge to all of you, to educators. How do you combat misinformation? What is truth? This age of misinformation is getting worse and worse. The line of defence has to be universities, high schools."

[1/3] "If you are an Indigenous person in Canada, you have lived under a dominant narrative that is not your own. [...] Who gets to tell the story? The victors of a country get to tell the story, shape the narrative to suit them."

[1/4] "I write true stories. The stories that I see and write, I wish they were fiction, but they are not. I started my third book, The Knowing, investigating what happened to my two-times great-grandmother [...]."

[1/3] "I spent a lot of time at the Toronto Star writing stories about the suicide crises in our communities from coast to coast to coast. I wrote about Amy Owen and the other girls from Northwestern communities who also took their lives. They had met each other in group homes."

“In the diversity, we might be able to find a common ground. Cette diversité-là permet de dépoussiérer l’idée du français et, surtout, dans les communautés francophones, un français qui vit, c’est une communauté et une langue écorchée.” Anne-José Villeneuve (@ualberta.bsky.social)

“In a francophone community, you have to volunteer, work in francophone organizations, because you grew up in the mindset that to survive, you have to help each other.” - Amy Vachon-Chabot

« Ce qui fonctionne dans une minorité soudée ne fonctionne pas dans un grand État. Les communautés minoritaires inspirent, mais les solutions doivent être adaptées avant d’être généralisées. » - Ibrahima Diallo, Université de Sainte-Boniface.

« Les communautés francophones ont réussi à s’ancrer dans le milieu dans des conditions très difficiles et c’est un élément très important, car elles l’ont fait avec des ressources limitées et à travers la rareté institutionnelle. » - Ibrahima Diallo, Université de Sainte-Boniface.

“There are lessons that the Francophone communities learned over centuries that could be of use to Canadian society. Things that allowed us to develop a set of values and ways of thinking to develop a culture where we strive and build a community.” - Peter Dorrington, Université de Saint-Boniface.