14 Notable alumni of
British Columbia Institute of Technology
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British Columbia Institute of Technology is 1684th in the world, 597th in North America, and 35th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from British Columbia Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jillian Harris
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jillian Harris is a Canadian television personality. She is best known for appearing on the television series The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Love It or List It Vancouver. She has also appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Canada's Handyman Challenge, and The Bachelorette Canada.
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Mike Holmes
- Occupations
- master buildertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Michael James Holmes is a Canadian builder/contractor, businessman, investor, television host, and philanthropist.
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Sahar Biniaz
- Occupations
- actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Sahar Biniaz is an Iranian-Canadian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Canada 2012. She had a recurring role on the hit TV show Sanctuary as the Hindu goddess of power Kali.
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Rachel Marsden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rachel Marsden is a Canadian conservative political columnist, television commentator and university lecturer, based in Paris. She is also the CEO of Rachel Marsden Associates, a PR and media consultancy firm. As of March 2016, she hosts Le Désordre mondial, a French-language geopolitical talk show on Sputnik News from the network's Paris studio four times per week. As of 2020, she is also a nationally ranked competitive swimmer at the masters level in France in the 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m freestyle, 50m butterfly, and 200m individual medley and also in Canada.
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Tamara Taggart
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tamara Taggart is a former Canadian television presenter. She served as the weekday anchor of CTV News at Six alongside Mike Killeen on CIVT-TV ("CTV British Columbia") in Vancouver between 2010 and 2018.
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Wai Young
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Wai Young is a Canadian politician from Vancouver, British Columbia. She represented the electoral district of Vancouver South for the Conservative Party of Canada from 2011 to 2015. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election, but was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Harjit Sajjan in the 2015 election. She started her own municipal party, Coalition Vancouver, on June 21, 2018. She is leader of the party and ran as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 municipal election. She unsuccessfully contested the 2019 federal election.
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Vera Kobalia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vera Kobalia is a Georgian politician who has served in the Cabinet of Georgia as the country's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development from 2 July 2010 to 25 October 2012.
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Diana Swain
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantjournalist
- Biography
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Diana Swain is a Canadian journalist and news producer, who was the executive producer of CBC's investigative documentary program The Fifth Estate until 2024. She has held various roles at the public broadcaster, including most recently as the senior editor of the network Investigative Unit. Before that she was senior investigative correspondent and host of The Investigators with Diana Swain on CBC News Network.
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Gloria Macarenko
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gloria Macarenko, is a Canadian television and radio journalist. From 1989 until 2014, she was the longtime host or co-host of CBC Vancouver's supper-hour television newscast at 5:00 or 6:00. She later hosted the CBC Radio One local program B.C. Almanac and the national CBC Radio One documentary series The Story from Here. In January 2018 she took over as the host of On The Coast, CBC Radio One's daily afternoon program in the Vancouver area. Macarenko has been a guest anchor on The National and CBC News Now on CBC News Network.
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Shawn Atleo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, is an activist and politician, a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada (serving 2009 to 2014). He also has served since 1999 as a Hereditary Chief of the Ahousaht First Nation, part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation based in British Columbia.
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John Furlong
- Occupations
- sports executive
- Biography
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John Furlong, OC, OBC is a Canadian sports administrator who oversaw the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics and was President and CEO of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC).
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Rob Brown
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Canada - Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rob Brown is a Canadian television journalist and anchor for CBC News Calgary.
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Annie Bellemare
- Occupations
- figure skater
- Biography
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Annie Bellemare is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2004 Bofrost Cup on Ice bronze medallist, and a five-time Canadian national medallist.
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Andrew George Jr
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- chefwriter
- Biography
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Andrew George Jr. is a Canadian chef and writer.
