{"id":741,"date":"2021-07-06T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=741"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:44:45","slug":"new-female-governor-general-appointed-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"New Female Governor-General Appointed in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former diplomat Mary Simon is appointed as Canada&#8217;s next Governor-General after a rocky couple of years during previous tenures in the office. She will be the first Inuk, Inuit speaking (but not French) Governor-General as well. The article on the link is an interesting discussion about the political aspects of the Governor-General&#8217;s role in Canada as it comes to grips with the state-endorsed genocide of its Indigenous peoples as well as the doctrine of terra nullius. [&#8220;Canada&#8217;s new governor-general, Mary Simon, is poised to engage in her most challenging mission yet by Robert Tay-Boroughs, The Conversation online, 15 July 2021]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-new-governor-general-mary-simon-is-poised-to-engage-in-her-most-challenging-diplomatic-mission-yet-164229\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat Mary Simon is appointed as Canada&#8217;s next Governor-General after a rocky couple of years during previous tenures in the office. She will be the first Inuk, Inuit speaking (but not French) Governor-General as well. The article on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","wpcat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}