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Ms. Clarkson had an impact on me growing up in Canada. Her take 30 shows and later Fifth Estate were hard news, often going into social issues that Canadians found difficult to face such as spousal abuse, poverty, etc. Her interview with the Shah of Iran should be mentioned, she went in for issues such as torture and military expansion that the Shah had to provide answers for, however she went at it with great diplomacy.
P. Fitzgerald
This bit of phrasing, talking about the (uncited, presumably speculative?) memories of Cretien and Cellucci seems inappropriate to an encyclopedia to me, being suitable rather for a glossy press release. And less glaringly, it seems odd to observe that J.C. and P.C. also praised Yellow Ribbon (in an article about A.C., as contrasted with an article about Yellow Ribbon or 9/11), since that seems to be understandable as baby-kissing writ large. So, I feel that the second two sentences could be cleaned up. In fact, it's possible that this paragraph is not useful, or has undue prominence: is her participation in post-9/11 foofooraw really the most significant event of the first 3 years of her term of office, as the article indirectly suggests? jholman 18:56, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Satirical links are vandalism!? I replaced the satirical link to Clarkson the Terrible.com. There are 2 positive links and a basically glowing encyclopedia entry; plus the link is clearly marked as satirical. She's a head of State, for pete's sake, surely there's room for Clarkson critique on Wikipedia? Flickharrison
Clarkson's Maiden Name Is Poy in English, Wu in Mandarin and Eng in Cantonese
An editor added that Clarkson is née Poy. But I think the editor confused Adrienne Clarkson with Vivienne Poy, another female Chinese-Canadian politician. Clarkson's maiden name is 伍, which is romanized as Wu or Woo (in Mandarin), or Ng or Eng (in Cantonese). Poy is an unlikely romanization. -- Menchi 21:18 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
Is there any merit of listing the Mandarin pronunciation for any of the Poy family members? There is no evidence that the Poys, being originated from southern China (Hakka / Taishan to be precise) even used Mandarin. The Mandarin pronunciation also do not contribute to explain how "Ng" became "Poy" -- Kvasir 08:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding Zocky's edit: 'rm "Her excellency, the right honourable". The article shouldn't start like that. Is there a way (and a need) to work this somehow back in?)' I would like to hear why you think the article should not start with her styles and titles. They are something that a good encyclopedia should include, and in the first sentence is the most natural place to put it. I think the only other way to include them is in a one-sentence paragraph: "Her official styles and titles are ...", What about articles about famous miltary figures? Should their military rank be omitted from the first paragraph? "Her Excellency the Right Honourable" can be see as a civilian counterpart to military rank. -- Indefatigable 20:41, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Zocky 22:26, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Why not start with "Her Excellency" or "Her Majesty"? What is the harm? It adds a fact to the article and causes no harm that I can see.-- Indefatigable 00:37, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Anyways, Madame Clarkson is now only the Right Honourable, she no longer hold the title of Her Excellency. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 22:36, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Where did the last name Clarkson come from? -- Jiang | Talk 07:52, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Criticising her for not marrying Chinese husbands seems a bit bizarre. Also, considering it was almost unheard of for women to keep their maiden names when she was first married it would be a bit much to have expected her to keep hers.
The point about her last name is irrelevent. When she married Stephen Clarkson 40 years or so ago it was almost unheard of for women to keep their maiden names. To use this as a criticism of her for ignoring her Chinese heritage is silly. Formeruser-83 02:21, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
As for why she kept the name - she became a TV star in Canada in the 1960s while she was married to Clarkson. Becoming famous as "Adrienne Clarkson" it would have been unreasonable to expect her to change her name upon becoming divorced. Note she has not changed her name to Adrienne Saul since marrying John Ralston Saul.
Is last month's protest really noteworthy enough to merit inclusion in an article about her. As it's listed, it seems to be dissatisfaction about her actions on a relatively unimportant trip. Rather trivial for an article about her, and probably wouldn't be noticed, I daresay, if it wasn't a current event at the time of insertion. Shouldn't this be removed? Cafemusique 22:15, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Although the article tries to represent various points of view, overall the article is negative, constantly citing "some monarchists". First of all, monarchists as a group are a minority; vocal monarchists are smaller again. Monarchists who spend most of their time attacking the Queen's representative end up defeating their own cause by undermining support for a monarchy. Let's face it, the UK monarchy has been in retreat since Charles I was beheaded. That said, it would be nice to say something positive about Madame Clarkson. I am old enough to remember every Canadian Governor General since 1952. Although most were dignified and worthy of the office, some stood out as distinguished and inspirational - Georges Vanier was a magnificent figure and person who commanded respect. Clarkson is hardly in his saintly category, but she commands respect for her intellect and love of Canada. Read her speeches, they are very good. There has NEVER been a time in Canadian history when the OFFICE of GG has not been criticized as a waste of money, but then there are people who seem to think that any government activity of any sort is a waste of money. So what! government goes on and changes itself as required. So, couldn't one of you get rid of the picayune criticisms and focus on Clarkson's dignitas and gravitas. She will be leaving office soon. Let's hope her successor is as committed to the promotion of Canadian culture in Canada and abroad, and not a political hack.-- BrentS 15:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[citation needed - I know you believe this is true, but please cite sources Mardiste ( talk) 23:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)]
What was her religion? seems she needs it for her infobox, as with the others. -- Earl Andrew - talk
Does the end date of this office coincide with the start date of when the successor is taking office? I believe that Clarkson is not GG anymore on this day. Can someone shed some light on this? Intangible 13:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
A Governor General serves "during pleasure"--that is to say until her appointment is revoked by Order-in-Council, or another person is installed. A Governor-General officially takes office on proclamation of her assumption of the Administration of the Government of Canada in the Canada Gazette, which generally occurs immediately following the installation ceremony in the Senate chamber.-- 198.103.254.251 23:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it safe to say that Clarkson was the first GG to have the Order of Canada prior to becoming the GG ? Dowew 23:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050923/clarkson_memoir_050923?s_name=&no_ads=
These are some screencaps of Clarkson hosting The Fifth Estate I took with my digital camera Dowew 03:02, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
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I am moving the photo gallery in here for a while so that the main page is now slowed down and so that it doesn't violate wikipedia's policy about fair use photos
Image:PaulAnkaOrderofCanada.jpg|Presenting the Order of Canada
Image:Denys ArcandtheorderofCanada2005crowncopyright.jpg|Presenting the Order of Canada
Image:ClarksonandQueen2005.jpg|Clarkson & The Queen
Image:ClarksonSaulRemembranceCC.jpg|Clarkson & Saul attend remembrance day ceremonies
Image:ClarksonRemCC.jpg
Image:ClarksonHutterites.jpg
I removed three images as they were only available for non-commercial use, according to [1]. howch e ng { chat} 18:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I had previous put that Clarkson will be the first GG to write an autobiography. It actually looks like [[Vincent Massey] may have written a couple of books. I am going to get them from my University Library before I remove the sentence because they may or may not be of an autobiographical nature. Dowew 00:22, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
For those of you reading this page you will notice that the references are currenly secionalized. This is done so that they will not get out of order. They will later be merged into a "refernces" or "notes" section Dowew 01:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason why this article and Michaëlle Jean are in Category:Military of Canada? Ziggurat 00:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the Governor-general is Commander in chief of Canada's military in much the same way that the U.S president is Commander in chief of the U.S. military - Dhodges 00:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Where did that information come from? The link for the reference goes to gg.ca, and it indicates on that site that the planting did happen. I'm also pretty sure it happened, since I've seen the tree. Anyone who visits the gardens at Rideau Hall can have the tree pointed out to them. True, there is not yet a plaque up for the tree, but there are other dedicated trees at Rideau Hall without plaques as well (such as Hu Jintao).
Does anyone know if Clarkson knows Hoi-San (Hoi-San) /Toi-San (Cantonese) /Tai-Shan (Mandarin) dialect of Chinese? 132.205.44.134 01:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
"Clarkson's paternal grandfather. . .migrated to Australia and opened a general store in Chiltern, Victoria . . . His eldest son William was later sent back to Taishan and made his way to Hong Kong. There he married and worked with his father for the Canadian government." How could the son have worked with his father while in Hong Kong when his father was running a store in Australia? I didn't remove this as it is likely that the actual facts have simply been obscured by a grammatical error. JeanKorte 17:27, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking that the new Hong Kong flag is the wrong flag to use? Biofoundationsoflanguage 09:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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I removed mention of Clarkson's membership from her full title; I'm not sure that membership in the Privy Council is mentioned in one's title, nor, if it is, what the correct format is. I'd prefer to see a source or example of some kind, as the result may affect all articles on former Canadian governors general. -- Miesianiacal ( talk) 21:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
I am wondering whom placed the insignia of the Canadian Forces Decoration for Madame Clarkson's page. The reason being that, a) after 22 years of service within the Canadian Forces does a person receive the first bar, and b) the representation of the bars of the C.D. are rossettes, not a crowned shield of the Coat of Arms.
Lastly, Madame Clarkson received her C.D. as Governor General, in 1999. She would have to wait 22 years to get the first bar, I would assume, and therefore, should not receive it until 2021, and that is, if Madame Clarkson continues to have an honorary rank of the Canadian Forces. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 22:34, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I have corrected the rosettes, however, once again, seeing when Madame Clarkson received her Canadian Forces Decoration, she would not be elegible for the rosette until 2021. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 20:24, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
The infobox has stood as it is for some time. What is the purpose in changing it, keeping in mind that whatever alterations happen here will have to happen on 19 other articles? -- Ħ MIESIANIACAL 00:06, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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Miesianiacal and I have both laid our opinions on the current format for Canadian Governors-General and I feel that outside opinion would be helpful. Therequiembellishere ( talk) 10:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
{o/d} Ah, I see. Well, as I already said, I'm okay with that so long as the degrees are given somewhere in the article in their proper order. -- Ħ MIESIANIACAL 19:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
There should be a section dedicated to her travel expense scandal.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/topstories/20040819/clarkson_travel_040819/
This came up in the news many times, especially her 40 person arctic farewell junket — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.199.44 ( talk) 20:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The Canadian Encyclopedia has been changing its links. I fixed one, but there are several article about this subject, and I'm not sure which one was meant as the reference. Maybe someone who has been working on this article will check them over. — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOOTNOTES ARE CURRENTLY SECTIONALIZED SO THAT THEY WILL NOT GET JUMBLED OUT OF ORDER. THEY WILL BE MELDED INTO THEIR PROPER SECTION WHEN THE PAGE IS IN BETTER SHAPE Dowew 04:12, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Ms. Clarkson had an impact on me growing up in Canada. Her take 30 shows and later Fifth Estate were hard news, often going into social issues that Canadians found difficult to face such as spousal abuse, poverty, etc. Her interview with the Shah of Iran should be mentioned, she went in for issues such as torture and military expansion that the Shah had to provide answers for, however she went at it with great diplomacy.
P. Fitzgerald
This bit of phrasing, talking about the (uncited, presumably speculative?) memories of Cretien and Cellucci seems inappropriate to an encyclopedia to me, being suitable rather for a glossy press release. And less glaringly, it seems odd to observe that J.C. and P.C. also praised Yellow Ribbon (in an article about A.C., as contrasted with an article about Yellow Ribbon or 9/11), since that seems to be understandable as baby-kissing writ large. So, I feel that the second two sentences could be cleaned up. In fact, it's possible that this paragraph is not useful, or has undue prominence: is her participation in post-9/11 foofooraw really the most significant event of the first 3 years of her term of office, as the article indirectly suggests? jholman 18:56, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Satirical links are vandalism!? I replaced the satirical link to Clarkson the Terrible.com. There are 2 positive links and a basically glowing encyclopedia entry; plus the link is clearly marked as satirical. She's a head of State, for pete's sake, surely there's room for Clarkson critique on Wikipedia? Flickharrison
Clarkson's Maiden Name Is Poy in English, Wu in Mandarin and Eng in Cantonese
An editor added that Clarkson is née Poy. But I think the editor confused Adrienne Clarkson with Vivienne Poy, another female Chinese-Canadian politician. Clarkson's maiden name is 伍, which is romanized as Wu or Woo (in Mandarin), or Ng or Eng (in Cantonese). Poy is an unlikely romanization. -- Menchi 21:18 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
Is there any merit of listing the Mandarin pronunciation for any of the Poy family members? There is no evidence that the Poys, being originated from southern China (Hakka / Taishan to be precise) even used Mandarin. The Mandarin pronunciation also do not contribute to explain how "Ng" became "Poy" -- Kvasir 08:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding Zocky's edit: 'rm "Her excellency, the right honourable". The article shouldn't start like that. Is there a way (and a need) to work this somehow back in?)' I would like to hear why you think the article should not start with her styles and titles. They are something that a good encyclopedia should include, and in the first sentence is the most natural place to put it. I think the only other way to include them is in a one-sentence paragraph: "Her official styles and titles are ...", What about articles about famous miltary figures? Should their military rank be omitted from the first paragraph? "Her Excellency the Right Honourable" can be see as a civilian counterpart to military rank. -- Indefatigable 20:41, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Zocky 22:26, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Why not start with "Her Excellency" or "Her Majesty"? What is the harm? It adds a fact to the article and causes no harm that I can see.-- Indefatigable 00:37, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Anyways, Madame Clarkson is now only the Right Honourable, she no longer hold the title of Her Excellency. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 22:36, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Where did the last name Clarkson come from? -- Jiang | Talk 07:52, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Criticising her for not marrying Chinese husbands seems a bit bizarre. Also, considering it was almost unheard of for women to keep their maiden names when she was first married it would be a bit much to have expected her to keep hers.
The point about her last name is irrelevent. When she married Stephen Clarkson 40 years or so ago it was almost unheard of for women to keep their maiden names. To use this as a criticism of her for ignoring her Chinese heritage is silly. Formeruser-83 02:21, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
As for why she kept the name - she became a TV star in Canada in the 1960s while she was married to Clarkson. Becoming famous as "Adrienne Clarkson" it would have been unreasonable to expect her to change her name upon becoming divorced. Note she has not changed her name to Adrienne Saul since marrying John Ralston Saul.
Is last month's protest really noteworthy enough to merit inclusion in an article about her. As it's listed, it seems to be dissatisfaction about her actions on a relatively unimportant trip. Rather trivial for an article about her, and probably wouldn't be noticed, I daresay, if it wasn't a current event at the time of insertion. Shouldn't this be removed? Cafemusique 22:15, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Although the article tries to represent various points of view, overall the article is negative, constantly citing "some monarchists". First of all, monarchists as a group are a minority; vocal monarchists are smaller again. Monarchists who spend most of their time attacking the Queen's representative end up defeating their own cause by undermining support for a monarchy. Let's face it, the UK monarchy has been in retreat since Charles I was beheaded. That said, it would be nice to say something positive about Madame Clarkson. I am old enough to remember every Canadian Governor General since 1952. Although most were dignified and worthy of the office, some stood out as distinguished and inspirational - Georges Vanier was a magnificent figure and person who commanded respect. Clarkson is hardly in his saintly category, but she commands respect for her intellect and love of Canada. Read her speeches, they are very good. There has NEVER been a time in Canadian history when the OFFICE of GG has not been criticized as a waste of money, but then there are people who seem to think that any government activity of any sort is a waste of money. So what! government goes on and changes itself as required. So, couldn't one of you get rid of the picayune criticisms and focus on Clarkson's dignitas and gravitas. She will be leaving office soon. Let's hope her successor is as committed to the promotion of Canadian culture in Canada and abroad, and not a political hack.-- BrentS 15:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[citation needed - I know you believe this is true, but please cite sources Mardiste ( talk) 23:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)]
What was her religion? seems she needs it for her infobox, as with the others. -- Earl Andrew - talk
Does the end date of this office coincide with the start date of when the successor is taking office? I believe that Clarkson is not GG anymore on this day. Can someone shed some light on this? Intangible 13:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
A Governor General serves "during pleasure"--that is to say until her appointment is revoked by Order-in-Council, or another person is installed. A Governor-General officially takes office on proclamation of her assumption of the Administration of the Government of Canada in the Canada Gazette, which generally occurs immediately following the installation ceremony in the Senate chamber.-- 198.103.254.251 23:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Is it safe to say that Clarkson was the first GG to have the Order of Canada prior to becoming the GG ? Dowew 23:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050923/clarkson_memoir_050923?s_name=&no_ads=
These are some screencaps of Clarkson hosting The Fifth Estate I took with my digital camera Dowew 03:02, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Image:Clarksoncap1.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap2.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap3.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap4.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap5.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap6.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap7.JPG| Image:Clarksoncap8.JPG|
I am moving the photo gallery in here for a while so that the main page is now slowed down and so that it doesn't violate wikipedia's policy about fair use photos
Image:PaulAnkaOrderofCanada.jpg|Presenting the Order of Canada
Image:Denys ArcandtheorderofCanada2005crowncopyright.jpg|Presenting the Order of Canada
Image:ClarksonandQueen2005.jpg|Clarkson & The Queen
Image:ClarksonSaulRemembranceCC.jpg|Clarkson & Saul attend remembrance day ceremonies
Image:ClarksonRemCC.jpg
Image:ClarksonHutterites.jpg
I removed three images as they were only available for non-commercial use, according to [1]. howch e ng { chat} 18:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I had previous put that Clarkson will be the first GG to write an autobiography. It actually looks like [[Vincent Massey] may have written a couple of books. I am going to get them from my University Library before I remove the sentence because they may or may not be of an autobiographical nature. Dowew 00:22, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
For those of you reading this page you will notice that the references are currenly secionalized. This is done so that they will not get out of order. They will later be merged into a "refernces" or "notes" section Dowew 01:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason why this article and Michaëlle Jean are in Category:Military of Canada? Ziggurat 00:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the Governor-general is Commander in chief of Canada's military in much the same way that the U.S president is Commander in chief of the U.S. military - Dhodges 00:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Where did that information come from? The link for the reference goes to gg.ca, and it indicates on that site that the planting did happen. I'm also pretty sure it happened, since I've seen the tree. Anyone who visits the gardens at Rideau Hall can have the tree pointed out to them. True, there is not yet a plaque up for the tree, but there are other dedicated trees at Rideau Hall without plaques as well (such as Hu Jintao).
Does anyone know if Clarkson knows Hoi-San (Hoi-San) /Toi-San (Cantonese) /Tai-Shan (Mandarin) dialect of Chinese? 132.205.44.134 01:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
"Clarkson's paternal grandfather. . .migrated to Australia and opened a general store in Chiltern, Victoria . . . His eldest son William was later sent back to Taishan and made his way to Hong Kong. There he married and worked with his father for the Canadian government." How could the son have worked with his father while in Hong Kong when his father was running a store in Australia? I didn't remove this as it is likely that the actual facts have simply been obscured by a grammatical error. JeanKorte 17:27, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking that the new Hong Kong flag is the wrong flag to use? Biofoundationsoflanguage 09:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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I removed mention of Clarkson's membership from her full title; I'm not sure that membership in the Privy Council is mentioned in one's title, nor, if it is, what the correct format is. I'd prefer to see a source or example of some kind, as the result may affect all articles on former Canadian governors general. -- Miesianiacal ( talk) 21:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
I am wondering whom placed the insignia of the Canadian Forces Decoration for Madame Clarkson's page. The reason being that, a) after 22 years of service within the Canadian Forces does a person receive the first bar, and b) the representation of the bars of the C.D. are rossettes, not a crowned shield of the Coat of Arms.
Lastly, Madame Clarkson received her C.D. as Governor General, in 1999. She would have to wait 22 years to get the first bar, I would assume, and therefore, should not receive it until 2021, and that is, if Madame Clarkson continues to have an honorary rank of the Canadian Forces. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 22:34, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I have corrected the rosettes, however, once again, seeing when Madame Clarkson received her Canadian Forces Decoration, she would not be elegible for the rosette until 2021. Ctjj.stevenson ( talk) 20:24, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
The infobox has stood as it is for some time. What is the purpose in changing it, keeping in mind that whatever alterations happen here will have to happen on 19 other articles? -- Ħ MIESIANIACAL 00:06, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
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Miesianiacal and I have both laid our opinions on the current format for Canadian Governors-General and I feel that outside opinion would be helpful. Therequiembellishere ( talk) 10:55, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
{o/d} Ah, I see. Well, as I already said, I'm okay with that so long as the degrees are given somewhere in the article in their proper order. -- Ħ MIESIANIACAL 19:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
There should be a section dedicated to her travel expense scandal.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/topstories/20040819/clarkson_travel_040819/
This came up in the news many times, especially her 40 person arctic farewell junket — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.199.44 ( talk) 20:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The Canadian Encyclopedia has been changing its links. I fixed one, but there are several article about this subject, and I'm not sure which one was meant as the reference. Maybe someone who has been working on this article will check them over. — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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