Look Who's Getting Diamond Jubilee Medals ...

[T.G.]

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/915885/ ... lee-medals

Media Advisory - Lieutenant Governor Presents Diamond Jubilee Medals

TORONTO, Feb. 3, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, is pleased to announce the inaugural presentation of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medals to a distinguished group of Ontarians. The Lieutenant Governor will present these historic medals at a ceremony in the Vice-Regal Suite on Monday, February 6, 2012, at 3:00 p.m.

The Diamond Jubilee medals were created by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, approved by The Queen, and manufactured by the Royal Canadian Mint. They were established to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne, and are presented to celebrate the tremendous achievements and contributions Canadians have made to their country.

For a complete list of this august group of recipients, please see the attached backgrounder.

Who:
The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal recipients (see attached backgrounder)
What: Inaugural presentation of Diamond Jubilee medals
Where: Lieutenant Governor's Suite, Music Room, Queen's Park (2nd floor)
When: Monday, February 6, 2012, 3:00 p.m.

DIAMOND JUBILEE MEDAL RECIPIENTS

The following people* (listed alphabetically) will be presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal by the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, on Monday, February 6, 2012.

Ms. Susan Aglukark
Mr. Tony Aspler
The Honourable Jean Augustine
Mr. Tom Axworthy
Mr. John Kim Bell
Mr. Paul Bosc Sr.
Ms. Marlene Brant Castellano
Mr. Austin Clarke
Mr. John R. Colombo
Mr. David Cronenberg
Master John Fraser
Mr. Rex Harrington
Reverend Brent Hawkes
Mr. Sandy Hawley
Mr. Euclid Herie
Ms. Chaviva Hosek
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci
Mr. Russ Jackson
Ms. Molly Johnson
Ms. Karen Kain
Ms. Vicki Keith
Mr. Jamie Kennedy
Ms. Michele Landsberg
Mr. David Lepofsky
Mr. Stephen Lewis
Mr. Gordon Lightfoot
Major General Lewis MacKenzie
Ms. Natalie MacMaster
Mr. Peter Mansbridge
The Honourable Roy McMurtry
Mr. Gordon Pinsent
Mr. Lloyd Robertson
Mr. Clayton Ruby
Mr. Haroon Siddiqui
Professor Thomas Symons
The Honourable Michael Wilson

[styky]

What exactly is the criteria for this medal?

With the awesome name of Diamond Jubilee Medal it just doesn't seem enough to be a singer or someone who read a line and someone filmed it. Perhaps I was expecting true Canadian heroes for such an honour and what I see is the usual.

Congratulations all anyway

[Canadaguy]

What about an average everyday Canadian.

How about police, fiefighters, ems, doctors , nurses etc.

same old same old.

Who or how did a name get submitted.

Its just like the Academy awards. Same people and all popularity.

[styky]

Governor General Announces the Eligibility Criteria for the
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=14108&lan=eng

Eligibility criteria

Eligible candidates must meet the following criteria:

have made significant contributions to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community within Canada, or for an outstanding achievement abroad that has brought great credit to Canada;
be citizens or permanent residents of Canada;
be alive on February 6, 2012. The award can be made posthumously, as long as the candidate was alive on that date.

[RedDog]

Appears to be a double decker layer of the Order of Canada. What an embarrassment to Her Majesty's name.

[Charles J. White]

Appears to be a double decker layer of the Order of Canada. What an embarrassment to Her Majesty's name.

I'm told she doesn't care for the colony anymore - can't say I blame her, North America is flushing itself down the toilet of socialism...

[Dogpatch]

What exactly is the criteria for this medal?

With the awesome name of Diamond Jubilee Medal it just doesn't seem enough to be a singer or someone who read a line and someone filmed it. Perhaps I was expecting true Canadian heroes for such an honour and what I see is the usual.

Congratulations all anyway

Hold the congrats

I believe that the medals are given on recommendations/petitions from (friends, family, supporters), you know... the usual suspects

[virgey]

Appears to be a double decker layer of the Order of Canada. What an embarrassment to Her Majesty's name.

I'm told she doesn't care for the colony anymore - can't say I blame her, North America is flushing itself down the toilet of socialism...

So is the U.K.

[mindyrbusiness]

A brief profile of a few honorees
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943.

Rev. Brent Hawkes-Order of Canada Awarded to Gay Pastor Who Attacked Vatican, Performed Illegal Gay “Marriages”
by LifeSiteNews.com Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:15 EST http://www2.macleans.ca/wp-content/uplo ... g_3450.jpg
Rev. Brent Hawkes of the Metropolitan Community Church in Toronto, the same man who flouted Canadian law by illegally "marrying" a homosexual couple in 2001, and who subsequently pushed homosexual "marriage" on Canada through the back-door of the judicial system, has now been awarded the highest honor that can be given to a Canadian civilian."Awarding the Order of Canada to someone who has worked tirelessly to destroy the foundation of marriage is a very questionable act," Rushfeldt said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com.

Haroon Siddiqui,Writing in Toronto Life in June 2001, Robert Fulford maintained that "Siddiqui makes the most strenuous effort to bathe Third World countries in a soft light. No matter how outrageous its actions, a non-Western government can usually count on him for a little understanding."Tarek Fateh has opined in an National Post editorial that "Siddiqui seems... to be advocating the agenda of the Islamists.

Stephen Lewis- (Life Site News)No one disputes that Lewis is a serious humanitarian, experienced administrator and fine orator,” writes the Catholic Register. “But that’s hardly the point. Not only has Lewis repeatedly ridiculed the Pope and derided Church teaching on the most fundamental questions of life, he has become an international flagbearer of the anti-Church cause.”
At the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, Lewis attacked the Vatican for opposing abortion and contraception, calling its statements “torrents of thinly veiled misogyny.” He’s said that Pope Benedict XVI is “living on the moon” in regards to his opposition to condoms in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The pope’s stance is “sending a message which ultimately kills people,” says Lewis, and presents “another example of complete indifference to the vulnerability of women, who are so hugely and disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS.”

Michele Landsberg is married to UN Special Envoy Stephen Lewis. Their children are Ilana Naomi Landsberg-Lewis, Jenny Leah Lewis and journalist Avi Lewis. Avi is married to writer Naomi Klein, and Ilana is married to musician and activist Lorraine Segato

[styky]

6 Quebec MPs return Queen's jubilee medals in protest
Sonja Puzic, CTVNews.ca Staff

Date: Monday Feb. 6, 2012 6:26 PM ET

Some Quebec MPs are returning their Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medals in protest of the federal government's spending on monarchy celebrations.

At least six Quebec MPs -- all four Bloc Quebecois members, along with two New Democrats -- are reportedly refusing to accept the jubilee medals going to all 308 members of the House of Commons.

A total of 60,000 jubilee medals will be handed out this year to Canadians who've made significant contributions to their communities.

NDP MP Pierre Nantel, who represents Quebec's Longueuil-Pierre-Boucher riding, confirmed to CTVNews.ca he's returning his medal.

"To me, it's a very personal decision," he said in a phone interview Monday.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201202 ... z1leseN9kP

[wildernessvoice]

Once again common sense from Pttawa is expressed by the members from Quebec:

At least six Quebec MPs -- all four Bloc Quebecois members, along with two New Democrats -- are reportedly refusing to accept the jubilee medals going to all 308 members of the House of Commons.
NDP MP Pierre Nantel, who represents Quebec's Longueuil-Pierre-Boucher riding, confirmed to CTVNews.ca he's returning his medal.
......"To me, it's a very personal decision," he said in a phone interview Monday.

.... the cost of the medals alone is $3.5 million.

......Bloc MP Louis Plamondon called it a waste of money at a time when the federal government is talking about cuts to public pensions and department budgets.




"It's over the top," Nantel said, adding it's "illogical" to give the medals to MPs.




"Me being here (as MP) for seven months – (is it) worth the medal? Why? If I am re-elected, if the people in my riding think I am doing a good job representing them, then that's my medal," he said.



Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/201202 ... z1leuBgtW1

[Canadaguy]

Paying extra monies to Quebec for decades to shut them up and keep them in Canada is over the top.

I'll be more then glad to accept one of those medals.

Maybe they should learn some history and also learn about the electoral process that brough them to Ottawa.

[styky]

Paying extra monies to Quebec for decades to shut them up and keep them in Canada is over the top.

I'll be more then glad to accept one of those medals.

Maybe they should learn some history and also learn about the electoral process that brough them to Ottawa.

If you ever want to take a good look at the Silver Jubilee medal up close there's one in the draw beside me.

[styky]

Some of the Diamond Jubilee Medals Go to Canadian Forces Members
February 6, 2012. 5:14 pm • Section: Defence Watch............http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/02/ ... s-members/

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The Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal will be presented throughout the year to 60 000 deserving Canadians to celebrate significant contributions and achievements. Approximately one in every ten CF members will receive the medal.

“As Chief of the Defence Staff, I appreciate that 11 000 Diamond Jubilee Medals are available for presentation to the most deserving of our men and women in uniform,” said General Walt Natynczyk. “This is the most significant allocation of commemorative medals in the history of the Canadian Forces. I see this as a signal of just how much Canadians value the service of their sons and daughters in uniform to our great country. We are proud to serve Canada and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty’s reign.”

[styky]

Worthington ponders the Diamond Jubilee Medal

By Peter Worthington ,QMI Agency

First posted: Monday, June 11, 2012 05:20 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, June 11, 2012 05:33 PM EDT
A while back, in both the Sun newspapers and Maclean’s magazine,

I noticed that perennial columnist Alan Fotheringham was preening and puffing

about his relationship with the Queen Elizabeth with whom, he reminds us, he’s had tea three times.

In the Sun, he wrote: “I just assume that she reads my column. So it was no surprise that three weeks ago I received a request (order?) from Buckingham Palace that I was to appear at 6:00 p.m. on May 14 at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club for a small ceremony to receive the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. The (order?) request was arranged through Art Eggleton, who was Toronto’s mayor from 1980 to 1991 and is now a distinguished member of our Senate in Ottawa.”

A lot of us in the media know Foth, and his penchant for hyperbole. We don’t take him too seriously which is probably wise, since I’m not sure he takes himself that seriously. That said, I’d be surprised if the Queen ever read his column.

Foth makes a bigger deal of having tea with the Queen that the facts warrant, since when covering Royal tours, it’s pretty hard not to have tea (or a drink) with the Queen. She traditionally meets those of the media who follow her around.

I, too, have had tea with the Queen while covering Royal tours. My most notable feat was being the “official” senior media representative on one of those tours and spoke on behalf of colleagues. The media spokesman on Royal tours traditionally was awarded a pair or Royal cufflinks at the end of the visit.

Alas, for me, I had written irreverently about a drunken Haida Indian in the Queen Charlotte Islands stealing the show by staggering and weaving on the red carpet, much to the amusement of Prince Philip who nudged the Queen to take note. The article was not appreciated, nor was my observation that Prince Philip looked aghast at receiving another cowboy hat that he was expected to wear in Calgary.

I think I became the first Royal Tour media honcho not to get a set of cufflinks in gratitude for loyal press leadership. I apparently set a poor example.

So tea with the Queen while covering the Royals is not necessarily a mark of distinction.

As for Fotheringham, I’ve known him for longer than most — since the mid-1950s when I returned to the University of B.C. after serving in the Korean war. We both wrote for the university newspaper Ubyssey. In those days, Foth was a campus bigshot humour columnist, I was a struggling sports writer for UBC’s secondary games.

Then, only the other day, there was a glowing article in the same beloved Sun that Columnist Chris Blizzard, “our expert on all things Royal,” was to be “awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal at a special ceremony on June 18 at Roy Thomson Hall.”

According to Chris: “It is a huge honour and a privilege to receive such an award from Her Majesty.” Editor-in-Chief James Wallace said “the signal honour” is well-deserved,” since at Queen’s Park, Chris is considered “royalty” among journalists. (I bet that’s news to her!)

So I guess Chris’ medal takes precedence over Foth’s — or at least Roy Thomson Hall is arguably a more prestigious setting than Toronto Lawn for an investiture.

Personally, I’m pleased for both of them, though I admit to feeling a bit second-class.

I received a Queen’s Jubilee Medal back in January — but it came in the mail, recommended by a Veterans’ group. No investiture, no Senator involved, no “order” from Buckingham Palace. No accolades from the editor-in chief who didn’t even know of the “award” — one of 60,000 such medals issued to “deserving” Canadians.

What hurts is that 10 years ago I also got the gold medal issued on the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s reign. It also came in the mail. Again no EIC tributes. Yvonne has both medals framed and hanging on a wall in the kitchen.

We have quite a few medals on the wall — the most significant being my father’s — Order of the Bath, Military Cross and bar, Military Medal and bar, and wartime service medals. Three Second World War service medals are mine, and three Korean service medals, plus two Korean medals.

I don’t spend much time thinking about medals — but I kind of miss not getting those cufflinks 40 years ago.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/11/wo ... ilee-medal