Order of Canada
Canadian national order
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| February 7 2025 | Removal from the Order of Canada was officially published in the Canada Gazette. |
| January 3 2025 | Governor General Mary Simon terminated Sainte-Marie's appointment to the Order of Canada due to the ancestry controversy. |
| 2023 | CBC News investigation revealed discrepancies in her claimed Indigenous ancestry, challenging her long-standing narrative of being Cree. |
| September 2023 | Former judge and academic Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond left the Order of Canada after it was revealed that she had misrepresented her Cree ancestry. |
| August 2023 | Retired from live performances, marking a significant transition in her musical career. |
| October 2022 | Rideau Hall stripped Johnny Issaluk of his membership in the Order of Canada, citing well-founded reasons but declining to specify the exact details. |
| July 22 2021 | Mary Simon was appointed as the 30th Governor General of Canada and received her Order of Canada appointment. |
| 2019 | Sainte-Marie was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, further acknowledging her significant national contributions. |
| 2019 | Issaluk was elevated to the Order of Canada in recognition of his achievements as an Indigenous actor from Nunavut. |
| 2019 | President Donald Trump pardoned Conrad Black's American criminal record. |
| December 9 2019 | Johnny Issaluk resigned from his position with the Sedna Epic Expedition following allegations of inappropriate behavior from multiple women. |
| May 11 2017 | King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) was appointed as an Extraordinary Companion of the Order of Canada. |
| 2015 | Ranjit Chandra was removed from the Order of Canada for committing research fraud. |
| May 2014 | Louis LaPierre left the Order of Canada after it was revealed that he had misrepresented his academic credentials. |
| February 22 2014 | The decision to terminate Black's membership in the Order of Canada was officially gazetted. |
| January 31 2014 | Governor General David Johnston announced Black's removal from the Order of Canada and expulsion from the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. |
| July 2013 | Bernard Norman Barwin's resignation from the Order of Canada was approved by the Governor General, following a scandal where he was found to have inseminated patients with his own sperm without authorization. |
| January 2013 | Governor General David Johnston accepted historian Camille Limoges' resignation from the Order of Canada, with Limoges reportedly wanting to live a simpler life. |
| 2012 | Garth Drabinsky was removed from the Order of Canada after being found guilty of fraud and forgery in Ontario. |
| September 2011 | Rideau Hall confirmed that Black's Order of Canada appointment was under review by the Advisory Council after his return to prison. |
| April 19 2010 | Frank Chauvin, a retired police detective who opened an orphanage in Haiti, had his resignation from the Order of Canada accepted, reportedly in protest of Morgentaler's induction. |
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