Julie Payette, a former Canadian astronaut and the country’s governor general since 2017, announced she would step down Thursday after she was accused by current and former employees of creating ...

Julie Payette watches as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bows to her before his speech in the Senate chamber during her installation ceremony as Gvernor General, in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 ...

Julie Payette represented the queen as Canada’s official head of state, a high-profile but largely ceremonial role. She was accused of publicly humiliating employees.

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Canada. The queen’s rep in Canada calls it quits after probe into toxic workplace “Tensions have arisen at Rideau Hall over the past few months and for that, I am sorry,” Julie Payette said ...

To begin her new life of formal authority, Payette eschewed the formality of a script. She neither sat on her throne, nor stood behind a lectern. She just stood there and talked.