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An annual publication of the 2019 William Southam Journalism Fellowship THE OWL Program Massey’s Principal Nathalie Des Rosiers is a Champion of Students’ Rights If we create networks around our young scholars, they can pursue their thinking. If we teach them, ‘Know Thyself,’ they become good leaders that don’t go astray. Then we will have done a good job. Nathalie Des Rosiers, first day on the job, August 1, 2019. Photo by Dewey Chang BY RICHARD GODDARD athalie Des Rosiers understands both need to be. They’ll have to change. It’s a lot of stress to n In what context would that be used? sides of a protest. She resigned her seat experience that vulnerability as an intellectual. So I So if I’m buying a meal through Skip the Dishes as MPP in the riding of Ottawa- can relate to that. In the month of November I always I should be able to get the carbon footprint Vanier shortly after accepting the job tell students to come and see me if they want to quit information in addition to the nutritional Nas Massey College’s new Principal. She has served as a because I wanted to quit in November. It’s a time of information. I should know the impact of the natural resources minister in Ontario and a law school high stress, and high joy. Styrofoam, not just the calories I’m going to consume. dean at the University of Ottawa — nobody would There’s some debate about how to calculate the It’s interesting that you’re occupying the role of Massey question her bona fides as an authority figure. But n carbon footprint. There has to be a framework and Principal as someone with such a steeped background in rigour in the assessment. It requires popular Nathalie Des Rosiers has also made her mark as a civil liberties. In 2010, you flagged the expanded police engagement with the idea. That’s one of the lawyer at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. powers to the media in the lead up to the G20 protests discussions I want to have at Massey. In 2010, she tipped off the media to the expanded in Toronto. How are you going to advise students when police powers in the lead up to the ill-fated G20 they want to dig their heels in and say, “No more!”? n And these are intersecting discussions, inevitably… Summit in Toronto. Now Massey’s Principal plans to I’ve been involved in civil liberties for a long In March, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta draw on her deep understanding of what it means to time, and I’ve been in management as well. I’m not Thunberg helped orchestrate student walkouts in challenge the status quo in building ethical leadership going to agree with students if they want to shut down 112 countries. As an administrator what do you think skills among Junior Fellows. Massey College. I remember a group of students who of a student boycott like that? came to me the first time I was an administrator. They Protests are a way to express oneself. They arise n Having now parachuted back into academia, can you asked me to cancel class so they can protest. I said, when the communication with power holders is share a fond memory of being a university student yourself? ‘No. That’s not really a protest. It’s a holiday.’ [laughs] broken, or because there’s more that needs to be When I was at Harvard Law School it was the To protest you have to have a bit at stake. You have to expressed. My short stay in politics convinced me that first time in my life that I was learning in English. put something in. So at the end of the day we agreed we need bold ideas and we need people who will I was pretty stressed out because I couldn’t understand that if there was an exam on the day of the protest exercise power in a more ethical way. everything that was being said. I was spending a lot of they could take the exam another time. I believe it was This presents a crucial opportunity and time reading American constitutional law with a important for them to experience the power, the responsibility for Massey College: If Massey cultivates French-English dictionary beside me. It was taking too energy, and the civic duty of protesting. and models ethical behavior among the Junior long — I couldn't finish the readings. I was freaking Fellows, then it models a way of building community out fearing that I was going to fail because I was n And then there’s your background as a former natural based on strong values, such as equality and integrity. unable to cope. So I called my mother to say, ‘I can’t resources minister in Ontario — do you feel a special If we create networks around our young scholars, they stay because I am unable to do the readings responsibility in terms of addressing climate change now can pursue their thinking. If we teach them, ‘Know completely.’ And my mother said, ‘Well you can’t come that you are the Principal at Massey College? Thyself,’ they become good leaders that don’t go back — I told all my friends you were accepted.’ Climate change and the increasing gap between astray. Then we will have done a good job. The lesson there is that it took me six weeks the rich and the poor are the challenges of our before I started dreaming in English. I’m pretty sure a generation. I’m working now to create The Charter This interview has been edited for length and clarity. lot of students starting their masters will experience of Rights and Responsibility of the Green Consumer. this frightening moment when they realize the way It’s about giving consumers the information they need they used to study will not get them to where they to be able to make better buying choices. 01 Cross-Cultural/Interkulturell/Kulttuurienvälistä On April 24, Principal Hugh Segal welcomed a full-house in the Upper Library to the first annual German Canadian Media Symposium, addressing: “(Un)Truth — Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age.” Co-hosted by the German Consulate General in Toronto, University of Toronto Communications, and Massey College, the symposium featured keynote speakers Ursula Weidenfeld, German business journalist and author of the book Government Without People , Gregor Mayntz, president of Germany’s Federal Press Conference, and Massey Senior Fellow Ronald Deibert, professor of political science and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Photo by Dewey Chang During the Fellows’ During the Journalism trip to Germany in Fellows’ trip to November, on the Finland in April, on invitation of the the invitation of the German Federal Ministry for Foreign Foreign Office, the Affairs of Finland, Fellows visited the the William Southam New Energies Forum Journalism Fellows in Feldheim, an energy visited Lahti (pictured self-sufficient village here at Lahti City Hall). with a wind farm A pioneer in circular of 55 wind turbines economy, Lahti is (energy is also a candidate for the generated by a solar European Green Capital farm with 9844 Award 2021. photovoltaic modules, as well as bio mass). In March, Vincent Bozek — the Goethe- Institut guide for At the Kujala Waste the Southam Fellows’ Centre in Lahti, where Berlin visits since 94% of waste is used 2014 — returned as energy or material, to Toronto for the and waste expertise second year in a row has been developed to visit Massey College, into growth-oriented explore Toronto’s business. cultural landscape and contemplate the Lake Ontario shoreline. Acknowledgements The Owl is the annual publication For our inspiring and restorative For our Berlin trip in November For our Helsinki trip in April 2019, thank you And, of course, special of the William Southam year of fellowship, we are supremely 2018, thank you to the German to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and thanks to Principal Journalism Fellowship Program. grateful to Massey College, the Federal Foreign Office, the the Embassy of Finland, with special thanks to Emeritus Hugh Segal, Chris Windeyer, the McLaughlin University of Toronto, the estate of German Embassy in Ottawa, the Ambassador Vesa Lehtonen, Tuulikki Olander, and Principal Nathalie Centre Science Journalism Fellow, the late St. Clair Balfour, Lisa Consulate General of Germany and our guide, Anu Lehtinen. Des Rosiers, as well edited the 2019 edition, with the Balfour Bowen, Clair Balfour and in Toronto, and the Goethe We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone in the as Professor Robert assistance of former McLaughlin Marci McDonald, the Fisher Institute in Berlin, with special Massey College community who made the Johnson, academic Fellow and Siobhan Roberts Family and the Alva Foundation thanks to Ambassador Sabine year so edifying, and so much fun: the Junior advisor to the Southam (Acting Assistant Dean). (in association with Journalists for Sparwasser, Consul General and Senior Fellows, Liz Hope, Oris Chekeche, Fellows, and Assistant Human Rights), the R. Howard Thomas Schultze, Press and Dean Emily Mockler, Design and production is by STC, Amela Marin, Elena Ferranti, P.J. MacDougall, Webster and the J.W. McConnell Cultural Affairs Officer Tanja Nelson Adams, Joyee Chau, Wing Lee, Gia who runs the William with special thanks to Carmen Family Foundations, the Matuszis, and our inimitable Southam Journalism Serravalle and Marsh Thornley. Ting, Darlene Naranjo, Greg Cerson, and the McLaughlin Centre, Steven Goethe Institute guide, entire catering, cleaning and events staff.

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