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I’m delighted to be here at the opening of the “Our Land, Our Art” exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Throughout your lives and careers, you have made your communities better. You have improved our quality of life. You have changed the way we live, work and think.

Today, we mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. It is a day of reflection, but must also be seen as a day of action.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, will preside over the Change of Guidon ceremony for The Royal Canadian Dragoons regiment at Garrison Petawawa.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will invest 14 Officers (O.C.) and 35 Members (C.M.) into the Order of Canada during a ceremony at Rideau Hall.

There is something special about each of you who wear the military uniform. You are committed to excellence and consistently show that you’re ready for any and every task you’re presented with.

Throughout your lives and careers, you have made your communities better. You have improved our quality of life. You have changed the way we live, work and think.

This year marks the seventh anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, with its 94 Calls to Action.

Today, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, is announcing 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including two Companions, 32 Officers and 65 Members. Three appointments are promotions within the Order.

For most, the holiday season is a time for family and friends. A time of rest and rejuvenation. But for the serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces and for every Canadian serving at our Missions abroad who find themselves away from home, the holidays can be a difficult time. They are missing—an...

For the second time in less than a week, Canadians are faced with the atrocities committed at residential schools. Our thoughts are with the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, who today announced that ground-penetrating radar has detected more than 170 anomalies at the site of a former residential school in K...

OTTAWA, Ontario—Members of the media are invited to Rideau Hall to cover a presentation of credentials of five new heads of mission to Canada.

Welcome to your new roles, ambassadors and high commissioners from Costa Rica, Mauritius, Angola, Laos and Samoa.

OTTAWA, Ontario—Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will present Canada’s top architecture and landscape architecture honours to outstanding Canadians during an upcoming ceremony at Rideau Hall.

Architecture, including landscape architecture, not only shapes our land, but also helps shape our story.

OTTAWA, Ontario—Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will meet with His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on Friday, January 27, 2023, at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa.

All of you being honoured here today have worked so hard to excel at your chosen sport and also at your academics.

As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I know we can all work together to create a compassionate, caring, safer country for Jewish people and for all the diverse peoples of this world.

On January 29, 2017, six men were killed at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec. These men had just finished evening prayers. The attack was fueled by hate and fear.

OTTAWA, Ontario—At the request of the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will undertake a State visit to the Republic of Finland, from February 6 to 10, 2023, to mark 75 years of formal bilateral rela...