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As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents the world-renowned Montreal philosopher Charles Taylor, 2007 winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize. Mr Taylor co-chairs the Québec Commission on reasonable accommodations created by the Charest government in February 2007.
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Photo : Gunther Gamper. As part of its series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Dan Philip, president of the Black Coalition of Quebec. Portrait of a man who has worked tirelessly to bring ethnic communities together and eliminate the last barriers of racial discrimination.
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Credit : Free The Children. As part of its series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Craig Kielburger, an energetic and involved young man who has dedicated himself since the age of 12 to defending the rights of children and ending exploitative child labour.
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Laure Waridel. As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Laure Waridel, an activist dedicated to creating a more equitable and ecologically just system of international trade.
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Denis Chouinard (centre), Costa Gavras (right) and Tahar Ben Jalloun. What drives Denis Chouinard to make films? Immediately on meeting the likeable filmmaker, one realizes that he is seeking neither glory nor box-office success. Openly critical of commercial cinema and its diktats, he is among those who have chosen to make art that is committed, if not denunciatory.
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ANQ-M. Fonds C. Poirier As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Gabrielle Roy, an influential figure in French-Canadian literature.
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Piero and Lucille Corti Onlus Foundation. As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Lucille Teasdale, co-founder with her husband Piero Corti of a hospital and nursing school in Uganda. Portrait of a determined woman who devoted her life to caring for the poorest of the poor.
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Mr. Julius Grey.
Photo: Gunther Gamper. As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Mr. Julius Grey, a renowned Montreal lawyer and McGill University professor of law. A tireless fighter and man of conviction.
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© Quebec Native Women. As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents Michèle Audette, president of Quebec Native Women (QNW). At once proud of her roots and at home in today's reality, she is lucid about the situation of Native women and unbending on the need to recognize their rights.
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John P. Humphrey (left), in Geneva in 1947. McGill University Archives. As part of a series of articles on major personalities who have furthered the cause of tolerance in Canada, Tolerance.ca® presents John Peters Humphrey, the primary drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Portrait of a remarkable man.
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