Mary Simon’s land acknowledgement isn’t symbolic: ‘It is our true history’
Image of the Week: The governor general is a symbolic role and Simon’s appointment a symbolic victory. But her land acknowledgement—a bit of symbolic prose—is more than that.
Mary Simon
Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech
The Trudeau government serves up warmed-over election promises, but ’reconciliation’ sounds a lot more convincing coming from this governor general.
Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions
Paul Wells: The newly named Governor General has been a pillar of many Canadian communities and now will be again of another. She’s needed and ready.
Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most
Image of the Week: Simon becomes the first Indigenous person to serve as Governor General, and arrives at a time of great reckoning
What’s getting cut
Sarah Schmidt tries to figure out what the cuts will mean to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The Customs and Immigration...
Jack Layton 1950-2011
The NDP leader passed away at his home early this morning
Casts and seal fur at Taste of the Arctic
For a second year, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) presented A Taste of the Arctic: A Celebration of Inuit Culture. This time the...
The keys to Rideau
The Mark asks various thinkers for viceregal nominations and ends up with a shortlist that includes Preston Manning, Wayne...
The Commons: Just visiting
The House comes to grips with what Clinton thinks of our approach to Arctic sovereignty and the war in Afghanistan