Gov. Gen. Mary Simon reflects on five years of reconciliation, Indigenous diplomacy

                                                                        Governor General Mary Simon poses for a portrait at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on                                                                               Thursday, May 7, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick By Alessia Passafiume Nunavik, where Gov. Gen. Mary Simon grew up, is a long way from Ottawa and farther still from Buckingham Palace. That never stopped her mother Nancy May, a unilingual Inuk,…

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