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Queen coming to Manitoba

By: Mia Rabson

27/11/2009 12:35 PM | Comments: 56

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks to Queen Elizabeth II during an audience with the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting today in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

OTTAWA - The Queen is coming.

Manitoba is one of three provinces on the Canadian tour itinerary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip announced today.

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The royal visit will take place June 28 to July 6, 2010. The specific dates and locations of her visit to Manitoba have not yet been announced.

She will be in Ottawa for Canada Day.

Queen Elizabeth was last in Manitoba in October 2002 as part of her Golden Jubilee festivities.

This will be her fifth visit to the province. Her first visit was in 1951 when she was still a Princess. She came for the first time as Queen in 1970 for Manitoba’s centennial celebrations. She also visited as part of a cross-Canada tour in 1984.

The Queen will also visit Nova Scotia and other parts of Ontario during the eight-day tour.

mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca

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56 Comments

Posted by: ProudofWinnipeg

November 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM

AntiApathy: I'll answer you. I think it is better to have the Queen, which is obviously archaic, than to have a head of state that might be thought to represent the hopes, dreams, and beliefs of a population. I don't trust abstract republican theory, because it doesn't remind us of the weakness of human reason. Every time I see a coin, I'm reminded of the mix of hard-fought struggle and capricious contingency that has given us the considerable liberties and welfare that most of us enjoy. I'll go with the twisted timber of humanity making good through preposterous history before the clear right of republican reason every time. So if for arbitrary reasons we have a Queen...good--it reminds us of the arbitrary and capricious nature of our fate. God save the Queen!

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Posted by: BH

November 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Oh thats the lady on my money

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Posted by: AntiApathy

November 28, 2009 at 2:11 PM

hollywood00:

I mean this sincerely and in an uninflammatory way, because I'm curious about the sentiment behind your comment:

What does the Queen mean to you? What does she mean to your identity as a Canadian? What does she represent?

I would love to hear anyone's responses to these questions. Personally, I feel that the Queen is an outdated relic of our colonial history. However, I'm open to hearing others' opinions and the reasoning behind them.

Come on, let's debate! Free speech makes life so much more interesting. :-)

P.S. macboy: Yours is a noble cause, and I admire you. I've given up on fighting the degradation of the English language, but it drives me crazy just the same!!

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Posted by: AntiApathy

November 28, 2009 at 2:01 PM

Wait a second, Stephen Harper stated at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh (Sept 2009) that Canada has no history of colonialism!

(Check out this article, or type "harper colonialism" into google)

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/cnw/article.jsp?content=20090929_172501_0_cnw_cnw

If that's the case, what relationship would Canada have with the British monarchy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada

Oh, and MeThreeAndBe4, hate to disappoint you, but the Queen Mum died in 2002. Queen Elizabeth II is her daughter.

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Posted by: brandonboy

November 28, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Have you noticed that the Queen has only visited Manitoba 5 times and of them the NDP have been in power for 4 of the 5. Perhaps it is the NDP and not the Conservatives who are the real fans of the Queen. Sure the Federal Government invites her, but only with the Provinces agreement.

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Posted by: Mepnorris

November 28, 2009 at 1:33 AM

I hope the queen bypasses Winnipeg and only visits rural Manitoba. That way the British tabloids will only have polite Canadians to report as opposed to whiners that don't like the tourist dollars she will attract, or self centred people that think that they are the only ones in the province.

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Posted by: Ed Anger

November 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM

Its nice to see the great unwashed making the usual uneducated comments tonight. Firstly the Queen actually makes canada money through tourism dollars. Secondly Canada is part of the common wealth which allows its citizens to visit and work with other common wealth nations like Britain, Australia and New Zealand which are all neatly tied together by our Queen.
the only thing the Queen can be blamed for is your poor education in a common wealth country. No bow to your Queen minions...