Mary Simon

Governor General Mary Simon ahead of the Throne Speech on Nov. 23, 2021 (Sean Kilpatrick /AFP/CP)

Governor General Mary Simon ahead of the Throne Speech on Nov. 23, 2021 (Sean Kilpatrick /AFP/CP)

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Mary Simon’s land acknowledgement isn’t symbolic: ‘It is our true history’

Governor General Mary Simon delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate in Ottawa on Tuesday (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Governor General Mary Simon delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate in Ottawa on Tuesday (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Politics

Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech

Trudeau and Simon arrive for an announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on July 6, 2021 (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

Trudeau and Simon arrive for an announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on July 6, 2021 (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

Ottawa

Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions

Mary Simon and her husband Whit Fraser leave after the announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau that Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

Mary Simon and her husband Whit Fraser leave after the announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau that Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

Canada

Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

Ottawa

What’s getting cut