Michaëlle Jean Centre for Global and Community Engagement

“Aiming to improve health literacy in our community, as a team, one book at a time!”

For Anthony, the opportunity to participate in experiential learning has brought him a completely new perspective. “The roles I have been tasked with during my placement have allowed me, as a non-Indigenous person, to gain a better understanding of Indigenous culture from the people themselves.”

Cécile recruits volunteers to work with the food bank of Odawa Native Friendship Centre, a program which distributes much-needed supplies to alleviate the food insecurity that affects many First Nations’ members living in Ottawa. When asked why this program, she explained that she “was very shocked to see that First Nations’ people in Canada struggle with the same problems as those in the United States.” So she decided to make a difference.

Professor Angela Cameron incorporated CSL into her Gender Sexuality and the Law course (CML 3181) because she believes that “practising substantive equality on the ground against the backdrop of well-theorized gender and sexuality is an excellent way to learn what the messy, beautiful reality of equality might look like if we liberated it from the common law a little bit.”