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

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

“#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. Land acknowledgements, once a good-faith effort to start a dialogue about Indigenous history, have come under…

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#Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech

#Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech

“#Five takeaways from a very cautious 2021 Throne Speech” Nothing to see here, folks. Well. Nothing surprising, anyway. While Speeches from the Throne are sometimes used to announce major new initiatives, that was not the case on Tuesday, as Liberals previewed their priorities for the new Parliament. We saw, instead, the repetition of promises from…

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#Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions

#Mary Simon and the PM’s winning conditions

“#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. Reading from notes during a brief news conference Tuesday morning at the Canadian Museum of History—which is good! Caution is good!—Mary Simon…

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#Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

#Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

“#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 In 2010, Mary Simon, then the president of Canada’s national Inuit organization, may have noticed her name being bandied about in the press as…

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