#Canadian Governor General

[manwalksintobar]

The only tourist in Havana turns his thoughts homeward //  Leonard Cohen

Come, my brothers, let us govern Canada, let us find our serious heads, let us dump asbestos on the White House, let us make the French talk English,

not only here but everywhere, let us torture the Senate individually until they confess, let us purge the New Party, let us encourage the dark races so they'll be lenient when they take over, let us make the CBC talk English, let us all lean in one direction and float down to the coast of Florida, let us have tourism, let us flirt with the enemy, let us smelt pig-iron in our back yards, let us sell snow to under-developed nations, (It is true one of our national leaders was a Roman Catholic?) let us terrorize Alaska, let us unite Church and State, let us not take it lying down, let us have two Governor Generals at the same time, let us have another official language, let us determine what it will be, let us give a Canada Council Fellowship to the most original suggestion, let us teach sex in the home to parents, let us threaten to join the U.S.A. and pull out at the last moment, my brothers, come, our serious heads are waiting for us somewhere like Gladstone bags abandoned after a coup d'état, let us put them on very quickly, let us maintain a stony silence on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

 Havana April 1961

#poetry #Leonard Cohen #Canadian poetry #Canadian politics #Havana #pierre poilievre #Canada Council #Canadian Governor General #Canada Council Arts Grants #St. Lawrence Seaway #CBC #chauvenism #White House #poems of protest #Flowers for Hitler #funny

[immortalmuses]

The fact that Logan (Okay, James Howlett) and Hercules are lovers in X-Treme X-Men / Earth-12025...

And then Marvel does a whole Wolverine & Hercules Crossover in Earth-616, and gives us scenes LIKE THIS...

...I mean, the Audacity. JUST FUCKIN KISS ALREADY!!

#Marvel Comics #Logan Howlett #Wolverine #Hercules #Xtreme XMen #do i still screech over James and Hercules being soulmates in Xtreme XMen? YOU BETCHA #Governor-General James Howlett #i loved him and he deserved more than one short run #He's literally described as “Wolverine meets Teddy Roosevelt. But still Canadian.” #HOW CAN U NOT LOVE THAT?? #Fandom: Marvel #c: Logan | Wolverine #Logan: media #Logan: images #Logan: headcanon

[canadachronicles]

#Royal Canadian Air Force #RCAF #King Charles III #King of Canada #Governor-General Mary Simon #Governor General Mary Simon #Vicereine #Vicereine of Canada #Governor General of Canada #Anniversary #100th Anniversary #Canadian Instagram #Canada Chronicles

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Deposit Colors In Archives Sunday," Ottawa Citizen. July 25, 1942. Page 18. ---- In a colorful ceremony tomorrow afternoon, the 2nd Canadian Battalion (First Great War) will deposit their colors in the Dominion Archives. A parade will leave the Drill Hall at three o'clock, proceeding by way of the Driveway. Connaught Place and Sussex street to the Archives. The band of the Governor General's Foot Guards, leading the parade, will be followed by the 2nd Battalion veterans, the First Battalion of the 21st Canadian Armored Regiment (G.G.F.G.) of Debert, N.S., led by Captain W. B. Bowker of Ottawa, and the reserve battalion of the Governor General's Foot Guards and the Peterboro Rangers. Col. W. B. Megloughlin will be in command. Following the unveiling of the colors at the Archives, Dr. Gustave Lanctot. Dominion archivist, will accept them for safe keeping in the military museum. The battalion colors were presented to the 2nd Battalion by Charles W. Band, and the King's color by the late King George V. Leaving the Archives, the order of the parade will be reversed so that the active army unit will lead. Defence Minister Ralston, Mayor Stanley Lewis and other prominent men are expected to attend.

#ottawa #library and archives canada #canadian war museum #regimental colours #2nd canadian battalion #governor general's foot guards #w. b. megloughlin #king's colours #military ceremony #canada during world war 2 #canadian military

[rabbitcruiser]

Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledged to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada on March 18, 1892. It was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.

#Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley #Lord Stanley Memorial Monument by Sydney March #Stanley Cup by Covit_Nguyen_NORR #Governor General Lord Stanley #donate #silver challenge cup #Stanley Cup #18 March 1892 #anniversary #Canadian history #Stanley Park #Vancouver #Canada #2012 #original photography #Toronto #Ontario #British Columbia #summer 2018 #International Hockey Hall of Fame #travel #vacation #tourist attraction #landmark #Lord Stanley Cup #Ottawa #Wayne Gretzky #cityscape #architecture #the real and only Stanley Cup!

[sebastocrat]

#canadian heraldry #coat of arms #crest #double headed eagle #family history #heraldry #heraldic #se ipsum extollit qui perstat #armiger #armigerous #governor general of canada #canadian heraldic authority #letters patent #grant of arms

[trippingontheescalator]

Which Classic Novel Should You Read Based on Your Fave Snape Pairing

Snily - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847). Let's see, a low class and abused, brooding Byronic leading man? Check. Madly in love with a woman who ends up marrying a snobbish rich man who looks down on our hero? Check. Obsessed with her even decades after her death? Check, check, and check. Oh, and let's not forget that the child the woman has with her husband shares her eyes. Hm, suspicious.

Snames - Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (1740). So, as a fellow snames fan, let's be honest with ourselves: all of our fics can be boiled down to "I can change him." We want James to be despicable, inhuman, and cruel to Severus, and then we want James to realize how disgusting he is and grovel at Severus's feet, because we are all basic bitches. So basic that one of the earliest novels in the English language is basically this. Pamela originated this trope.

Snirius - Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (1957). Snirius fans are unafraid of dark, toxic relationships and unhappy endings, and, well, here's a book for you! Deep Water is about as toxic as you can get. It's about a man who murders his wife's lovers.

Snucius - Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1913). Alright, alright, so this isn't a novel, this is a play, but fans of this pairing definitely seem to be into the whole sugar daddy/"I can turn this feral street child into an elegant gentleman" kind of vibe, and this is what this play is all about. Audrey Hepburn is fantastic in the film adaptation My Fair Lady (1964).

Snupin - Bear by Marian Engle (1976). You Canadians are probably like, "What the fuck? Is my OTP a joke to you?" The answer is yes, but that's beside the point. Hear me out. The main character is an archivist who is very bad at relationships and kind of shuns society in general. Like our Snape. She ends up in the Canadian wilderness on an assignment going through a dead person's belongings. Also, this dead person kept a pet bear that our heroine now has to take care of. Our heroine begins to yearn for something wild, our pet bear is a literal bear, but also incredibly pathetic and docile just like Lupin. Anyway, the two fuck. Literally, she fucks a bear. THIS BOOK WON THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD. THAT'S LIKE CANADA'S PULITZER I THINK. None of you werewolf-fuckers should act shocked and dismayed by this. We all know how you really think Sirius's prank should have gone (in which instead of James rescuing Snape, Moony makes sweet sweet love to him).

Sorry, guys, no Snarry or Snamione. I don't really read those pairings so I can't give an accurate recommendation. But if you've got thoughts, add to this!

#pro snape #severus snape #snupin #jeverus #snirius #snily #snames #snucius

[zvaigzdelasas]

[CBC is Canadian State Funded Media]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday senior bureaucrats are reviewing the Deschenes Commission report — a 1980s-era independent inquiry that looked at alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada — with an eye to making more of it public. Governor General Mary Simon also said today Rideau Hall is sorry for honouring Peter Savaryn — a former chancellor of the University of Alberta who served in the same Nazi unit as Yaroslav Hunka — with the Order of Canada [in 1987].[...]

The vice-regal office is also examining the Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals previously awarded to Savaryn, who also served as president of the Ukrainian World Congress, a group that represents the Ukrainian diaspora.[...] The first [part of the report], which included recommendations to make it easier to extradite war criminals, was released publicly. The second was marked secret and the names of alleged Nazis in Canada were never released. Jewish groups, including B'nai Brith and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre (FSWC), have said the second part should be unredacted and disclosed publicly so that Canadians can learn more about the country's shameful history of admitting an untold number of Nazi collaborators after the Second World War.[...]

"There are top public servants looking very carefully into the issue, including digging into the archives," Trudeau told reporters. "We're going to make recommendations."

Reports suggest as many as 2,000 Ukrainian members of Hitler's Waffen-SS were admitted to Canada after the war — after some British prodding. The commission said the number is likely lower than that.[...]

Quebec Liberal MP Anthony Housefather said it's a delicate issue because the government doesn't want to "bring pain to a lot of Eastern European communities." Hunka, for example, has framed his war service as a fight for Ukrainian independence. The unit he fought for, the 1st Galician division, is also memorialized by Ukrainian expatriate groups at different sites across the country.[...]

The Deschenes report has also concluded that allegations of war crimes committed by this division have "never been substantiated."

That finding conflicts with what the post-war, Allies-led Nuremberg trials concluded about SS units like that one.[...]

"We have to recognize we have a horrible past with Nazi war criminals. We opened our country to people after the war in a way that made it easier to come if you were a Nazi than if you were a Jew," Housefather said.[...]

Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, the party's deputy leader, said Canadians need to know more about the country's "dark history" of "letting Nazis through the door to live here in peace and security." Lantsman represents the Toronto-area riding of Thornhill, a riding with one of the country's largest Jewish communities. In an interview with CBC News, Lantsman said the party supports revisiting the Deschenes report and its findings in some way.[...]

Asked if it might be too painful for some communities to revisit alleged Second World War-era crimes, Lantsman said "history is painful but that doesn't mean we don't need to reckon with it."[...]

Quebec Conservative MP Gérard Deltell, Poilievre's environment critic, said Wednesday he's not open to revisiting the issue right now.[...]

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he supports releasing the commission's report.

4 Oct 23

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

The fact that Jonas Spahr seems to be heading on an express route to Breach, while totally reasonable to us the audience, is absolutely fucking nuts from the perspective of your average Trustee, since they lack the context of his internal monologue and several key events that were not part of the public record

To become incredibly Canadian for a second, the average citizen's perspective on the matter would be like if the federal government blamed the cost of living and housing crises solely on the Governor General and had him removed from office, and he turned up a week later having joined a grassroots anti-monarchism movement. Divorced from context Spahr's turnaround time from key government official to seditionist is absolutely ridiculous

#midst #midst podcast #midst spoilers #jonas spahr

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Things that "allegedly" happened at the Aus tour that might have caused William to initiate the royal foundation split asap -

1. Jason stayed back in London at KP and did not accompany the couple to Australia. Quite a bit of the HnM staff went to Australia but point of contact the remained Jason in London. The harkle shenanigans were directly reported to Jason at KP during this time. And maybe Jason talked to William while Harry was away

2. Jessica accompanied Meghan as her stylist. But essentially Meghan and Jessica treated it as a holiday and wanted to do holiday stuff even though the couple's schedule was packed. Rumours are that Jessica/Meghan billed Clarence house for this styling expenses.

3. Meghan sort of sabotaged Invictus and wanted to be there with Harry at every Invictus appearance and give a speech as well. Harry in the end, ditched Invictus and only did a couple of appearances to give a speech. But did not meet with the organizers or the participants. While this is not related to RF or KP directly, it showed bad faith. Now we know they did mistreat David Beckham.

4. Jessica's husband Ben had also come over from Canada with a crew. This was done in the garb of covering invictus but rumours were that Meghan wanted to do an exclusive interview about her pregnancy. The staff put a stop to this. Seems like this was a similar arrangement to what the couple eventually did in SA with Bradby and the "no one asked if im okay" interview.

5. Meghan's people had kinda roped in Jaguar to be Invictus sponcers and arranged a Jaguar to be gifted to Ben as a thank you gift for the exclusive interview with the Canadian network. Staff got to know and put a stop to it becoming news. Rumours are that Ben then flew back, but still got the Jaguar.

6. Meghan did not like staying at the governor generals official residence. Esp since Jessica was with her. She wanted the whole house as opposed to a wing. Jason and the KP team had to sort that headache out and smooth it out with the Australian team. Meghan remained mad.

7. She had an argument with the Governor generals wife, allegedly over staff treatment. rumours are that Meghan used the F- word and rolled her eyes. Happened in front of KP and aus staff. This was pretty much a diplomatic incidence and BP+govt got involved.

8. She wanted to accompany Harry at every one of his solo engagements. This caused quite a bit of hassles last minute. They were late to nearly all their engagements.

9. The blood diamond earrings situation happened. She wore the earrings without letting the staff know. KP/London staff were told one thing and issued a statement but later were told by staff in Australia about the true provenance. From a diplomatic pov this was a very bad look but Meghan said she did not care.

10. Tea throwing incidence happened and tea allegedly spilled over one of her PAs. That PA was being bullied by Meghan for a while and decided to leave. She was paid and an iron clad NDA had to be signed. But this incidence became quite an big legal issue for KP and there was allegedly a super injunction about this.

11. Jason decided to officially forward the bullying complaint to Simon case, BP HR and CH in writing. And maybe talked to William because staff's mental health was at stake.

12. She walked out of the UN women engagement after 10min and berated her staff, while at the venue, for arranging this. She allegedly ripped her Amy and her female body guard a new one infront of everyone, including royal rota. Amy cried. And the female bodyguard handed in her resignation that day.

13. She allegedly skipped/ditched some engagements to go to a spa/resort with Jessica. This caused some embarrassment because a lot of people had put in a lot of time and efforts into making these happen- reporters, organizers, local authorities, security, attending public and staff were all left embarrassed.

14. She was merching throughout the tour. She had arranged for merching deals and freebies and the staff wasn't made aware. Ethically, this caused quite some problems for KP. Gifts were also accepted in Australia personally by the couple against staff advice.

15. The pricetag on one of her dresses was left on when she walked out of a plane. She was embarrassed and ripped into her assistant for that. That was a merch which went wrong for her.

16. The couple was rude to the royal rota throughout. Even though the rota had been previously briefed about the kind of coverage Meghan wanted. Jason had to frantically be smooth things over constantly from London to ensure positive coverage from the press.

17. At least 4 members of meghans staff handed in their notice while on tour. This got back to KP/William who felt they had to act asap.

18. The couple constantly rowed while in Australia, and staff was put in an impossible sandwich situation while dealing with two. Both H and M were constantly on social media checking commments and were issued that public was criticising Meghan. They constantly telling staff to cover social media and clab back, instead of doing actual work.

Thank you so much! I remembered it was a disaster, but I’d forgotten some of the details.

They also took some vacation days at a resort, and there were rumors it was a freebie. And she made that speech claiming she’d paid her way through Northwestern and her dad and sister clapped back at that.

It really was a nightmare. I smh whenever Harry claims his family was jealous about how well they did in Australia.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday senior bureaucrats are reviewing the Deschenes Commission report — a 1980s-era independent inquiry that looked at alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada — with an eye to making more of it public.

Governor General Mary Simon also said today Rideau Hall is sorry for honouring Peter Savaryn — a former chancellor of the University of Alberta who served in the same Nazi unit as Yaroslav Hunka — with the Order of Canada.

"We express our sincere apology to Canadians for any distress or pain his appointment may have caused," a spokesperson for Simon said.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #nazis #nazi mention #justin trudeau #nazis tw #deschenes commission

[catdotjpeg]

Students and allies held an emergency protest today to support the encampment for Gaza at McGill University in Montreal, QC against agitators. The encampment, which participants are referring to as the Montreal Popular University of Gaza, has been going strong for six days with participants holding prayer services, book readings, teach-ins, and film screenings.

Notably, the Kanienkehaka Traditional Council wrote a letter showing their support and granting “the full right to those who are occupying McGill and other campuses throughout Turtle Island to be upon the said lands, with the expressed intent of engaging their administrations to divest from the colonial genocide of israel upon the Palestinian People and from the war machine in general.” 

The demands are as follows:

1. Disclose! We demand full financial transparency from the Concordia Investments Committee and the Board of Governors to disclose all investments in companies complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. 2. Divest: We demand that Concordia and McGill universities divest from all complicit companies and cut all academic ties with israeli institutions. 3. Defend: No repercussions or disciplinary charges for any actions taken by students of McGill and Concordia university in support of Palestine. Pending disciplinary charges against students related to support for Palestine activism will be dropped. 4. Declare: We demand that McGill and Concordia universities publish a statement immediately condemning the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and calling on the Canadian government to immediately cease all military contracts with the Zionist state. 

#palestine #canada #quebec #montreal #mcgill university #concordia university #youth activism

[website-enjoyer]

i was struck recently by an example of how reactionary online attitudes towards sexual deviance have become. i was chatting with a group of english professors the other day, and they started talking about the novel Bear. idk how well-known this book is outside of canada. the cover looks like this:

i haven't read it myself but reader, she fucks the bear. it's a literal bear. it was originally written for a collection of pornography and went on to win the Governor General's Award, which is given out by the highest level of our federal government, selected by a panel of the most established authors. i'm not saying that we should uphold the canadian government as a decision-maker about anything (death to canada), or that the 1970s were somehow better than the present. i've just had people try to get me to participate in ostracizing other trans people over so much less than this... and here these successful professors were, talking about how they used to teach this book as the first one in their introductory english classes (reading this with minors!!!11) and about how feminist it is. do they risk career damage or social death by talking about this? no, the only people who face social consequences for talking about anything fictional that's this deviant are the ones that are already marked by discrimination as sexually dangerous. so what exactly is accomplished by doing this? well. haha.

#books

[canadachronicles]

Better late than never, eh? Happy Birthday, Your Majesty!

#He shares a birthday with my Mum too #who was born exactly ten years after the King #King Charles III #King Charles #King of Canada #Mary Simon #Her Excellency The Right Honourable Mary Simon #Her Excellency Mary Simon #Governor-General Mary Simon #Governor Genral Mary Simon #Vicereine #Vicereine of Canada #Governor-General of Canada #Governor General of Canada #Canadian Instagram #Canada Chronicles

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Lord Bessborough rend honneur aux Victoria Rifles," La Presse. June 19, 1933. Page 13. ---- Le gouverneur général pose la première pierre de leur nouvel arsenal.

Belle cérémonie --- En présence d'une fort belle assistance militaire et civile, S. E. le comte de Bessborough, gouverneur général du Canada, a scellé samedi après-midi la pierre angulaire du nouvel arsenal des Victoria Rifles rue Cathcart, près de la rue Université, arsenal qui va doter ce grand régiment d'un établissement digne de ses fastes car jusqu'ici il ne possédait qu'un arsenal fort rudimentaire.

D’ailleurs le lieutenant-colonel Stuart-A. Rolland, commandant du régiment, en souhaitant la bienvenue au représentant de Sa Majesté, souligna cet état de choses et indiqua comment les Vics ont dû se contenter jusqu'à maintenant d'un arsenal tout à fait insuffisant et ce depuis nombre d'années.

Malgré la pluie qui commença de tomber peu après l'arrivée du gouverneur général revenu en train special de Shawbridge où il s’était rendu le cérémonie se déroula en présence d'une grande foule.

Le scellage de la pierre Une garde d'honneur de cent hommes, en grand uniforme, cet élégant uniforme vert, avec le bonnet de police en astrakan, que portent les Victoria Rifles, sous le commandement du major I.-H. Eakin, assisté du lieutenant M.-M. Allan et du second lieutenant C.-P. Decary, massée dans la rue Cathcart, face à l'édifice en construction, ajoutait au pittoresque de la manifestation que le cinéma et la photographie prirent sous tous les angles.

Le gouverneur général passa en revue la garde d'honneur et après avoir serre in main au lieutenant-colonel Rolland, se rangea à la tête des invités d'honneur au nombre de plus d'une centaine.

Après les quelques mots de présentation du lieutenant-colonel Rolland, qui remercia aussi le ministère de la défense nationale, le gouverneur général procéda au scellage de la pierre angulaire.

Le passé et l'avenir des Victoria Rifles Le gouverneur général, avant deprendre la truelle d'argent que lui présentait le lieutenant-colonel Rolland, prononça une courte allocution au cours de laquelle il rappela surtout les services rendus par les Victoria Rifles à l'empire britannique et affirma sa conviction que leur nouvel arsenal permettrait des hauts faits encore plus glorieux que jadis.

Immédiatement après le scellage de la pierre, l'évêque J.-C. Farthing la bénit avec tout le cérémonial d'usage.

Parmi l'assistance nombreuse, on connaissait sir Arthur Currie, le major general A.-C.-L. McNaughton, chef d'état-major; le brigadier général W-W-P. Gibsone; le brigadier général E. de B. Panel, le brigadier général T.-L. Tremblay, de Québec; le brigadier général John-A. Gunn, de Toronto; et le lieutenant-colonel Birtwhistle, d'Ottawa.

Le nouvel arsenal est construit sur l'emplacement de l'ancien arsenal érige en 1886 et devrait être terminé en décembre prochain.

Caption: Appelé à sceller la pierre angulaire du nouvel arsenal des Victoria Rifles, rue Cathcart près de la rue Université, S. E. le comte de Bessborough, gouverneur général du Canada, a rendu hommage, samedi dernier, an dévouement et au courage des "Vics", en présence d'une grande assis tance civile et militaire. En haut, l'on voit le gouverneur général passant en revue la tarde d'honneur, sous le commandement du major L.-H. Eakin. En bas, lord Bessborough sourit aux photographes tout en maniant la truelle d'argent avec laquelle il scella la pierre angulaire du nouvel édifice. (Cliches la Presse)

#montreal #victoria rifles of canada #canadian militia #arsenal #military arsenal #cornerstone laying #governor general of canada #opening ceremony #lord bessborough #canadian army #great depression in canada

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: The Bear

Caitlin Marceau: so that's where we talk things out, eh? Marceau: oh sorry i meant to say Marceau: this is where we talk things oot, eh? King: wow caitlin that sure is Canadian! King: this might be the most canadian thing i've ever heard Marian Engel: not so fast!

Marian Engel: did i hear someone say that's the most canadian thing they'd ever heard King: yeah i Engel: maybe you don't know Engel: about my bear fucking story King: King: uh

Engel: i have a story about a woman fucking a bear King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Engel: CBC radio called it the most quintessential canadian story

King: is King: is bear fucking a quintessential canadian thing? Engel: oh yeah absolutely Engel: would CBC lie? King:   Engel: would the 1976 Governor General's Literary Award be wrong?

King: no it's just King: that is not a stereotype i had heard before Engel: oh i see Engel: you're one of those americans who thinks we all just fuck moose King: no i Engel: for your information we have more than just moose King: Engel: there's a wide variety of sexy wildlife

Engel: there's bears, wolverines King: you really don't need to list them Engel: beavers Edward Lee: haha beavers yeah boi Engel: no not like that gross Engel: i'm talking about fucking giant aquatic rodents like a normal person

Engel: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the sexy bear Poe: is this really appropriate? Barker: shut up edgar Barker: let the woman talk Barker: i think we all want to hear this

Poe: i mean, is this story scary? this seems like more of a taboo romance Sarban: yeah edgar SHUT UP Sarban: this is the good shit

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #dean koontz #hp lovecraft #caitlin marceau #sarban #marian engel #edward lee