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Canada’s new indigenous governor general and the crisis of bourgeois rule
On the recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada’s monarch Queen Elizabeth II has named Mary Simon the country’s 30th Governor General. The political establishment and corporate media have rushed to hail the appointment of Simon, a long-standing state functionary, as “historic,” because she is Inuit and the first indigenous person to ever serve as “the Queen’s representative,” that is Canada’s acting head of state.
Justin Trudeau and Governor General designate Mary Simon at an announcement of Canada’s next Governor General [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
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One of her two daughters, Leah McInnes-Eustace, announced McInnes’ death Friday morning, six months after a cancer diagnosis: “At 3:30 a.m. this morning, wrapped in the arms of her daughters, my mom, the incomparable Barb McInnes, took her final breath. Our world is forever changed by her presence in it.”
McInnes helped launch the Ottawa Community Foundation with her father in 1987, then took over its leadership four years later. Through force of personality and sheer determination, she built it into a $100-million charity one of the most important philanthropic organizations in the city by the time she retired in 2014.
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture, whose outdoor designs are as ubiquitous as they are adored in her adopted home of Vancouver, died Saturday at the age of 99.
In a statement released Sunday, the City of Vancouver announced it has posthumously bestowed the Freedom of the City Award, the city’s highest honour, on Oberlander.
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“Cornelia Oberlander was one of Vancouver’s most renowned Jewish residents, and during Jewish Heritage Month this May, we honour her outstanding accomplishments in bringing world-class landscape design to Canada, and to Vancouver in particular,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a release. “On behalf of council, I extend my deepest sympathies to her family and friends. May her memory be a blessing.”