Louise Arbour named Canada's next Governor-General (brilliant choice):

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Louise Arbour named Canada’s next Governor-General
Ian Bailey
Stephanie Levitz Senior reporter

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-governor-general-canada-louise-arbour/

Louise Arbour, a retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada who also made her mark on international institutions such as the United Nations, will be Canada’s next Governor-General, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday.

He praised her as a storied defender of human rights who gave voice to the powerless and “those whose dignity was denied, in places where the powerful preferred silence.”

Ms. Arbour, 79, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and first became a judge in Ontario in the late 1980s. She was a Supreme Court justice from 1999 until 2004.

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She was the chief prosecutor in two UN international criminal tribunals, which investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. This led to the indictment of Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the first such legal action against a sitting head of state by an international tribunal.