Julie Payette

Canada is sending a handful of celebrities alongside its official delegation to the queen's state funeral on Monday, September 19, 2022, in London, England.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will join a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year, citing extensive human rights abuses by the Communist regime in the host country.

Mary Simon, an Inuk leader and former diplomat, described her appointment as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role — as a “step forward on the long path to reconciliation.” 

With a growing sentiment that Julie Payette's abrupt departure from Rideau Hall provides an opportunity for Canada to have its first Indigenous governor general, Perry Bellegarde laughs when asked if he's been taking French lessons.

The review of Rideau Hall that led governor general Julie Payette to resign found dozens of people who called the working conditions there hostile, negative, toxic or poisoned.

Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons on Monday, January 24, 2021, following a month-long break that was anything but restful to again face the ramification of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the threat of a possible election.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc concedes Julie Payette's resignation as governor general shows a need to strengthen the process for vetting vice-regal appointments.

Payette joins a very short list of governors general who have left the post early, but is the first to do so mired in controversy. Her decision to leave will have both political and practical consequences for the minority Liberal government.

Canada's hardest-hit regions are further tightening COVID-19 lockdown measures with public health officials blaming holiday gatherings for surging infections and experts suggesting Quebec's clampdown may inspire more restrictions.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised an “ambitious green agenda” last month, the speech delivered by Gov. Gen. Julie Payette on Wednesday focused more on how the government will manage the pandemic and the economic hardship it has caused.

The government made it clear that it plans to continue with its carbon pricing system, in the hopes of making it more costly to pollute and so depressing emissions over time.

The Governor General will not move into her official residence in Ottawa this summer and there is no date for when she might.

Julie Payette is making her first official visit to Saskatchewan more than a year after taking office and says being Canada's Governor General is a great privilege.

“En français on dirait que je suis une fan finie; I am such a big fan,” the Governor General said in Vancouver on Thursday.

Julie Payette has issued a decidedly informal request to Canadians in her first New Years message as governor general — "stay active."