100 Notable alumni of
Carleton University
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Carleton University is 418th in the world, 168th in North America, and 12th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Carleton University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dan Aykroyd
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- In 1969 studied criminology and sociology
- Occupations
- ufologisttelevision producervoice actortelevision actorfilm director
- Biography
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Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and musician.
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Norm Macdonald
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision producertelevision presentertelevision actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Norman Gene Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. He appeared in many films and was a regular guest on late-night talk shows, where he became known for his chaotic, yet understated style of comedy. Many critics and fellow comedians considered him to be the ultimate talk show guest, while prominent late-night figure David Letterman regarded him as "the best" of stand-up comedians.
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Gavin McInnes
- Occupations
- punditentrepreneurpodcasterfilm directorcomedian
- Biography
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Gavin Miles McInnes is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on Censored.TV, which he founded. He co-founded Vice magazine in 1994 at the age of 24, and relocated to the United States in 2001. In 2016 he founded the Proud Boys, an American far-right organization which was designated a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand after he left the group. McInnes has been described as promoting violence against political opponents, but has claimed that he only has supported political violence in self-defense and that he is not far-right or a supporter of fascism, identifying as "a fiscal conservative and libertarian".
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Rob Ford
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor representing Ward 2 Etobicoke North. He was first elected to Toronto City Council in the 2000 Toronto municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat twice.
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Conrad Black
- Occupations
- businesspersonbiographerautobiographerhistorianpolitician
- Biography
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian and British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer.
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Hary Tanoesoedibjo
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianhead commissionersocialite
- Biography
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Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo, usually shortened to Hary Tanoesoedibjo or just Hary Tanoe, is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the President Director of PT MNC Investama Tbk, which he founded in 2009. As the chairman, he oversees the holding company and its subsidiaries, including a media giant Media Nusantara Citra (MNC). He is the leader of the Perindo Party.
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Shane Smith
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Shane Smith is a Canadian journalist and media executive and former billionaire. He is executive chairman of the international media company Vice Media, operating an international network of digital channels, a television production studio, a record label, an in-house creative services agency, a book-publishing house, and a feature film division. Smith served as CEO of Vice from its founding until March 2018. Former A+E Networks CEO Nancy Dubuc was named CEO 13 March 2018. In his role as Executive Chairman, "Smith will now be focused on creating content and strategic deals and partnerships to help grow the company."
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Lawrence M. Krauss
- Occupations
- astrophysicistwriteruniversity teachernon-fiction writerphysicist
- Biography
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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University (ASU), Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
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Kayhan Kalhor
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian Kurdish kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer. He has received three Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album nominations. Kalhor also has earned two nominations and won one Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album as a member of the Silk Road Ensemble.
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Claudia Mo
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Claudia Mo Man-ching is a Hong Kong journalist and politician, a member of the pan-democracy camp. She represented the Kowloon West geographical constituency, until November 2020 when she resigned along other pro-democrats to protest against the disqualification of four of her colleagues by the government.
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Karim Rashid
- Occupations
- designerwriter
- Biography
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Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-born and Canadian raised industrial designer. His designs include luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity and packaging. Time magazine has described him as the "most famous industrial designer in all the Americas" and the "Prince of Plastic". He is based in New York City, as well as Belgrade, Miami and India.
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Nive Nielsen
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- actorsinger-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Nive Nielsen is a Greenlandic singer-songwriter and an actress. An Inuk from Nuuk, Greenland, as a singer-songwriter she plays with her band The Deer Children, often using a little red guitar-ukulele, which kickstarted her music career. The first concert she played was for Margrethe II of Denmark.
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Graydon Carter
- Occupations
- journalistwritereditoractor
- Biography
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Edward Graydon Carter, CM is a Canadian journalist who served as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. In 2019, he co-launched a weekly newsletter with Alessandra Stanley called Air Mail, which is for "worldly cosmopolitans". His current net worth is 12 million dollars.
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Rosemary Barton
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rosemary Barton is a Canadian political journalist, currently serving as the chief political correspondent for CBC. In this role, she anchors her own Sunday morning news show, Rosemary Barton Live, hosted the "At Issue" segment on The National, and leads special coverage for the network including during elections, breaking news and national emergencies.
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Jennifer Hosten
- Occupations
- diplomatwritermodelbroadcasterbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Jennifer Hosten is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first black woman and the first woman from her country to win the title. The whole contest had been controversial even before the result had been announced. Afterwards allegations were made about the influence of the Prime Minister of Grenada, who was on the judging panel.
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Akiko Kamei
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- interpretersecretarypolitician
- Biography
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Akiko Kamei is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Representatives. She is a former member of People's New Party and of the House of Councillors. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Gakushuin University and Carleton University, she was elected for the first time in 2007 in the Shimane at-large district. Her father Hisaoki Kamei was a veteran member of the House of Representatives. She is married.
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Norm Kelly
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Norman Kelly is a retired Canadian politician. He represented Ward 40 Scarborough—Agincourt from 2000 to 2018 and served as deputy mayor of Toronto from 2013 to 2014. Kelly was a City of Scarborough councillor from 1974 to 1980 and 1988 to 2000 and served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough Centre from 1980 to 1984.
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k-os
- Occupations
- rappercomposermusic video directorrecord producersinger
- Biography
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Kevin Brereton, better known by his stage name k-os, is a Canadian alternative rapper, singer, songwriter and producer. His given name may also be cited as Kheaven, a spelling he later adopted.
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Jim Watson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Alexander Watson is a Canadian politician who served as the 56th mayor of Ottawa from 2010 to 2022. Previously, he served as an Ottawa city councillor from 1991 to 1997, and as mayor from 1997 to 2000.
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Mia Martina
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Martine Johnson, better known by her stage name Mia Martina, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is known for her hit singles "Stereo Love", "Burning", "Latin Moon" and "Beast". Martina has received Juno Awards nominations for "Stereo Love" and "HeartBreaker", as well as a SOCAN award in 2014 for co-writing "Burning".
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Niki Ashton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Niki Christina Ashton is a Canadian politician. She is the New Democratic Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Churchill—Keewatinook Aski in Manitoba, Canada. She was first elected in the 2008 federal election. Ashton announced her intention to run for the leadership of the federal NDP on March 7, 2017. She placed third in the October 1, 2017 election.
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Robert MacNeil
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Robert Breckenridge Ware "Robin" MacNeil, OC is a Canadian-American journalist and writer. He is a retired television news anchor who partnered with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.
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Marco Mendicino
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Marco Mendicino is a Canadian politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence in the House of Commons since 2015. He served as the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship from 2019 to 2021 and the Minister of Public Safety from 2021 to 2023.
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Dino Patti Djalal
- Occupations
- international forum participantdiplomat
- Biography
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Dr. Dino Patti Djalal is a former Indonesian ambassador to the United States. He resigned from his ambassador post in September 2013 to pursue a presidential primary bid. He served as Indonesia's deputy foreign minister between July 2014 and October 2014.
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David Azrieli
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officerbusinesspersonmanagerarchitect
- Biography
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David Joshua Azrieli was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canadian and the 401st wealthiest person overall.
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Ryan North
- Occupations
- cartoonistwriterscreenwritercaricaturistengineer
- Biography
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Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer.
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Trevor Blackwell
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian-American computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur and roboticist based in England.
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Arthur Kent
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arthur Kent is a Canadian television journalist and author. He rose to international prominence during the 1991 Persian Gulf War during which he acquired the nickname "The Scud Stud". He is the brother of Canada's former Minister of the Environment Peter Kent.
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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- judgelawyerpretendian
- Biography
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Mary Ellen Elizabeth Turpel-Lafond is a Canadian lawyer, law professor, judge, and legislative advocate for children's rights.
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Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, popularly known as Omar Sharmarke, is a Somali diplomat and politician. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Prime Minister of Somalia. He subsequently briefly served as Somalia's Ambassador to the United States in 2014. In December 2014, Sharmarke was reappointed Prime Minister of Somalia. His term ended on 1 March 2017, and he was replaced by Hassan Ali Khaire.
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Jamie Sinclair
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Jamie Ann Sinclair is an American-Canadian curler from Osgoode, Ontario and is a three-time U.S. National Champion. Her United States Curling Association membership is through the Charlotte Curling Association in Charlotte, North Carolina where she has a number of personal connections. She grew up in Manotick, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa.
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John Manley
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Paul Manley is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004. From January 2010 to October 2018 he was president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada. He is currently the chairman of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and serves on the advisory board of the Leaders' Debates Commission.
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Aaron Doornekamp
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Aaron Rene Doornekamp is a Canadian-Dutch professional basketball player for Lenovo Tenerife of the Spanish Liga ACB and the Basketball Champions League. He was one of the greatest players in the history of the Carleton University Ravens men's college basketball team. Doornekamp is also a member of the senior Canadian men's national team. At a height of 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall, he can play at both the small forward and power forward positions, with power forward being his main position.
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Shona Brown
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- business theorist
- Biography
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Shona L. Brown is a business executive and consultant to non-profits and corporations. She was an executive at Google from 2003 to 2012, where she was senior vice president of business operations.
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Paul Dewar
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Paul Wilson Dewar was a Canadian educator and politician from Ottawa, Ontario. He was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre.
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Gregory So
- Occupations
- justice of the peace
- Biography
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Gregory So Kam-leung is the former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of Hong Kong.
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John Turmel
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- In 1976 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John C. Turmel is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness World Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost, having contested 108 elections and lost 107. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call.
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Derek Fildebrandt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Derek Alexander Gerhard Fildebrandt is a Canadian politician and media executive. He is the publisher, president and chief executive officer of the Western Standard New Media Corp. He is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Nahlah Ayed
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Nahlah Ayed is a Canadian journalist, who is currently the host of the academic documentary program Ideas on CBC Radio One and a reporter with CBC News. She was previously a foreign correspondent with the network and has also worked as a parliamentary correspondent under The Canadian Press. Her reporting on contemporary Middle Eastern politics has garnered multiple awards, both domestic and international.
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Abby Hagyard
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Abby Hagyard is a Canadian television actress, voice artist, and comedian, best known for her appearances on Nickelodeon's sketch comedy television series You Can't Do That on Television, and her voice work on animated adaptations of The Care Bears and For Better or For Worse.
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Paul Calandra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul A. Calandra is a Canadian politician who has served as a minister in the Ontario provincial cabinet since 2019. Calandra has been the government house leader for the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party since 2019, minister of legislative affairs since 2021, and minister of municipal affairs and housing since 2023. He previously served as the minister of long-term care from 2022 to 2023. Calandra represents Markham—Stouffville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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Rathika Sitsabaiesan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rathika Sitsabaiesan is a Canadian former politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough—Rouge River from 2011 to 2015 as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Sitsabaiesan is the first Tamil to be elected to the House of Commons.
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Mark Marissen
- Biography
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Mark Allan Marissen is a Canadian political strategist and principal of Burrard Strategy Inc., a communications company he founded in 1998. Marissen is also a senior advisor to McMillan Vantage Policy Group, affiliated with McMillan LLP, a Canadian business law firm.
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Judy Taguiwalo
- Occupations
- officialuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Judy Marigomen Taguiwalo is a Filipina social worker, social activist, and educator. She served as the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the Duterte administration in an ad interim basis from June 30, 2016 until August 16, 2017, when her appointment by President Rodrigo Duterte was rejected by the Commission on Appointments. She is a former professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman and was one of those nominated by the National Democratic Front to the Duterte Cabinet.
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Scott Reid
- Occupations
- historianjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Scott Jeffrey Reid is a Canadian politician. He has served in the House of Commons of Canada since 2000, and currently represents the Ontario riding of Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston as a member of the Conservative Party.
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Thomas Scrubb
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Thomas Ryan Scrubb is a Canadian professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played university basketball for the Carleton Ravens.
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Janice Charette
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Janice Charette is a Canadian public servant and diplomat who has served as clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the Cabinet from 2014 to 2016 and again from 2021 to 2023. Charette was the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2021.
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Garnett Genuis
- Occupations
- politiciancolumnist
- Biography
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Garnett Genuis /dʒɛnɪs/ is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan (in Alberta) since 2015.
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Paul Okalik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Okalik is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk to have been called to the Nunavut Bar. He was also the first premier of Nunavut.
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Michael Coteau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Joseph Coteau is a Canadian politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for Don Valley East in the House of Commons of Canada. From 2011 to 2021, he was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the provincial district of Don Valley East in Toronto. He served in the Cabinet of Ontario under Premier Kathleen Wynne from 2013 to 2018 in several portfolios, including Citizenship and Immigration, Tourism, Culture and Sport and Community and Social Services. After the 2018 Ontario general election, Coteau was one of seven Liberals re-elected, and he subsequently ran in the 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, placing second with 16.9% of the vote.
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Gord Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon Keith Brown was a Canadian politician who represented the Ontario riding of Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Conservative Party from 2004 until his death.
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Chris Bailey
- Occupations
- advisorblogger
- Biography
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Chris Bailey is a Canadian writer and productivity consultant, and the author of The Productivity Project (2016), Hyperfocus (2018) and How to Calm Your Mind (2022).
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Joe Cressy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Cressy is a former Canadian politician and activist who served on the Toronto City Council from 2014 to 2022. Cressy represented Ward 10 Spadina—Fort York, and was the chair of the Toronto Board of Health. He resigned from city council, effective April 30, 2022, to accept an appointment as senior vice president for external relations, communications and real estate development at George Brown College.
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Tom Clark
- Occupations
- political journalistjournalist
- Biography
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Tom Clark is a Canadian former television journalist. A longtime reporter and anchor for CTV National News and CTV News Channel, he moved to Global News in 2011 before retiring from journalism in 2016. Currently, he serves as Canada's Consul General in New York.
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Christian Bök
- Occupations
- poetphotographer
- Biography
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Christian Bök, FRSC is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, which has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon
- Occupations
- professorauthorpolitical scientistecologist
- Biography
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Thomas Homer-Dixon is a Canadian political scientist and author who researches threats to global security. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of seven books, the most recent being Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril.
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David Chariandy
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- university teacherscholar of Englishwriter
- Biography
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David John Chariandy is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a professor of English literature at Simon Fraser University. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and Toronto Book Award.
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Kellylee Evans
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriterjazz musician
- Biography
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Kellylee Evans is a Canadian jazz and soul music vocalist.
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Michelle Douglas
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Michelle D. Douglas is a Canadian human rights activist who launched a landmark legal challenge in the Federal Court of Canada against the military's discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ service members. Douglas herself served as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1986 to 1989. She was honourably discharged from the military in 1989 under the military's discriminating "LGBT Purge".
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Greg Ip
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- Biography
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Greg Ip is a Canadian-American journalist, currently the chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Canada, Ip received a bachelor's degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Anne Lagacé Dowson
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anne Lagacé Dowson is a Canadian radio journalist.
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Mike de Jong
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mike de Jong is a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of Matsqui from 1994 to 2001, Abbotsford-Mount Lehman from 2001 to 2009, and Abbotsford West since 2009. A caucus member of BC United (formerly known as the British Columbia Liberal Party), he served in several cabinet posts under premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark, and ran for party leadership in 2011 and 2018.
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Marc Lavoie
- Occupations
- university teacherfencereconomist
- Biography
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Marc Lavoie is a Canadian professor in economics at the University of Ottawa and a former Olympic fencing athlete.
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Kerry Diotte
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Kerry Thomas Diotte is a Canadian journalist and former politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton Griesbach from 2015 to 2021 and sat on the Edmonton City Council from 2010 to 2013. A Conservative, Diotte was elected to the House of Commons twice–in the 2015 and 2019 elections–but would lose his seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Blake Desjarlais in 2021. He ran for mayor of Edmonton in 2013, placing third. In June 2022 he joined Rebel News to become their Alberta Legislature reporter and political correspondent.
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Linda Thom
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Linda Mary Alice Thom,, née Malcolm, is a Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning shooter.
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Kevin S. MacLeod
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kevin Stewart MacLeod is a former Canadian Secretary to the Queen of Canada, former Usher of the Black Rod for the Canadian Senate, and the author of the historical fiction novel, A Stone on Their Cairn / Clach air An Càrn.
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Mathieu Chantelois
- Occupations
- editorjournalist
- Biography
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Mathieu Chantelois is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive.
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Michael Colle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Colle is a Canadian politician who has served as deputy mayor of Toronto since 2023, representing North York. He was elected to represent Ward 8 Eglinton—Lawrence on Toronto City Council in the 2018 election. Colle served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2018 and was a Cabinet minister during Premier Dalton McGuinty's tenure. He was formerly a York city councillor and Metro Toronto councillor, where he sat as the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) from 1991 to 1994.
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Terry Duguid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Terry Duguid is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Winnipeg South since 2015. He has campaigned for elected office at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, and served as a city councillor in Winnipeg from 1989 to 1995.
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Rick Mofina
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Rick Mofina is a Canadian author of crime fiction and thriller novels. He grew up in Belleville, Ontario and began writing short stories in school. He sold his first short story at the age of fifteen. As a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, the Crime Writers' Association, and the Crime Writers of Canada, Mofina continues to be a featured panelist at mystery conferences across the United States and Canada.
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Lynn Miles
- Occupations
- songwritermusiciansingerguitarist
- Biography
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Lynn Miles is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She has won the Juno Award and three Canadian Folk Music Awards.
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Chiara M. F. Mingarelli
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Chiara Mingarelli is an Italian-Canadian astrophysicist who researches gravitational waves. She is an assistant professor of physics at Yale University since 2023, and previously an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. She is also a science writer and communicator.
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Bernie Farber
- Occupations
- administrator
- Biography
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Bernie M. Farber is a Canadian writer, commentator, and the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist. He has testified before the Canadian courts as an expert witness on hate crime.
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Paul T. P. Wong
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychotherapistclinical psychologistoratorpsychologist
- Biography
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Paul T. P. Wong is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor. His research career has gone through four stages, with significant contributions in each stage: learning theory, social cognition, existential psychology, and positive psychology. He is most known for his integrative work on death acceptance, meaning therapy, and second wave positive psychology. He has been elected as a fellow for both the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association.
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Larisa Galadza
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Larisa Galadza is a Canadian diplomat who has served as Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine since 2019.
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Pierre Sané
- Occupations
- human rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Sané is the founder and president of the Imagine Africa Institute. He was UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences from May 2001 to June 2010. He was Secretary General of Amnesty International from October 1992 to April 2001.
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Saša Petricic
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Saša Petricic is a Canadian journalist and photographer. He is currently a senior correspondent and videojournalist for CBC Television's The National and other CBC News programs, based in Toronto and specializing in world news. He previously spent five years as the CBC's Asia Correspondent, based in Beijing and four years covering the Middle East from Jerusalem.
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Barry Blair
- Occupations
- coloristwriterinkerpenciller
- Biography
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Barry Blair was a Canadian comics publisher, artist and writer, known for launching Aircel Comics (publisher of titles such as Samurai, Elflord, Dragonforce, and The Men in Black) in the 1980s. From early on, Blair's art style was influenced by the comics he had seen living in East Asia, at a time when manga and other Asian comics were largely unknown in North America. His art was typically characterized by childlike figures, and included nudity and partial nudity. This continued into the erotica which became his main focus later in his career, and these attributes were a common criticism of his work.
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Clive Doucet
- Occupations
- novelistpoliticianpoet
- Biography
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Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician. He served as the Ottawa City Councillor for Capital Ward from 1997 to 2010 and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Ottawa in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election, finishing third with 15 per cent of the vote. Eight years later, he again ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Ottawa, this time finishing second with 22 per cent of the vote.
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Tamar Beruchashvili
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Tamar Beruchashvili is a Georgian diplomat and politician who has been the Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom since March 2016, and previously was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position she held from 11 November 2014 until 1 September 2015. She had previously served as Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations from 1998 until 2000 and Minister of Euro-Atlantic Integration in 2004. She also worked as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and again from 2013 until her appointment as minister in 2014. Beruchashvili also worked as a professor at Tbilisi State University from 2000 until 2010. She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on 11 November 2014, and held that post until 1 September 2015, when she was replaced by Giorgi Kvirikashvili. Beruchashvili was later appointed the new Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020.
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Chungsen Leung
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Chungsen Leung (Chinese: 梁中心) (born July 14, 1950) is a Taiwanese-born Canadian businessman and Conservative politician who was formerly the MP for Willowdale. After his election in the 2011 federal election, Leung was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism, a role he held until his defeat in the 2015 federal election.
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Alima Mahama
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Graduated with diploma in public administration
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Hajia Alima Mahama is Ghana's first female ambassador to the US. She is a lawyer and was from January 2005 to January 2009 Minister for the affairs of women and children in Ghana under President John Kufuor. She was also the Ghanaian Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, appointed into office by President of Ghana Nana Akuffo-Addo on 10 January 2017 to 7 January 2021. Hajia Alima also served as the Member of Parliament for Nalerigu/Gambaga constituency and a member of the New Patriotic Party in the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic.
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Mark Oldershaw
- Occupations
- canoeist
- Biography
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Mark Oldershaw is a Canadian sprint canoeist. Oldershaw won the bronze medal in the C-1 1000 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He is a third generation Canadian Olympic canoer, fifth family member to compete at the Olympics and the first member of the family to win an Olympic medal. He was a double Junior World Champion in the C-1 500 m and C-1 1,000 m in 2001.
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Matthew Teitelbaum
- Occupations
- exhibition curator
- Biography
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Matthew D. Teitelbaum is a Canadian art historian, who is currently the director of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Lynn Coady
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist and journalist.
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Yazmeen Jamieson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yazmeen Alexis Jamieson is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Albanian Women's National Championship club KFF Vllaznia Shkodër. Born in Canada, she represents the Jamaica women's national team.
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Jeremy Roberts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeremy Roberts is a former MPP Ottawa West—Nepean. He was first elected in the 2018 provincial election. In the 2022 Ontario general election, he was defeated by 908 votes to NDP candidate Chandra Pasma and was the only incumbent MPP from the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to be defeated.
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Lise Anne Couture
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Lise Anne Couture is an architect and educator. She is the co-founder of Asymptote Architecture, in partnership with Hani Rashid. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Marianne Meed Ward
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Marianne Meed Ward is an American-born Canadian politician and former journalist who has served as the 29th and current mayor of Burlington since December 3, 2018.
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V. Kumar Murty
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Vijaya Kumar Murty is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working primarily in number theory. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and is the Director of the Fields Institute.
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Jessica Scorpio
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jessica Scorpio is the founder and Former Chief Marketing Officer at Getaround, a peer-to-peer carsharing company. Scorpio previously founded IDEAL, a non-profit network for entrepreneurs and young leaders.
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Franz Baumann
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Franz Baumann is a German former United Nations official who, until the end of 2015, served as Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Special Adviser on Environment and Peace Operations at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. From 2017 to 2021, he was a visiting research professor at New York University (Graduate School of Arts and Science, Program in International Relations).
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Sulekha Ali
- Born in
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Somalia - Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Sulekha Ali is a Somali-Canadian musician. Based in Ottawa, she attended Carleton University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in Human Rights. Her choice of tertiary studies has significantly influenced her music, which is noted for its thoughtful, socially conscious lyrics.
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Robert Chisholm
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Robert Lawrence Chisholm is a former trade unionist and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented the Halifax Atlantic riding in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1991 to 2003. He succeeded Alexa McDonough as leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1996. He served as the leader of the Official Opposition in the Nova Scotia Legislature from 1998 to 1999. He subsequently founded a consulting firm, was co-chair of the 2010–11 United Way of Halifax Region campaign, and sat on the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University. On May 2, 2011, Chisholm was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Dartmouth—Cole Harbour riding in Nova Scotia. As a member of the Official Opposition, he served as the Critic for Fisheries and Oceans and Deputy Critic for Employment Insurance until his defeat in the 2015 election.
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Gerald McMaster
- Occupations
- writerpainterfaculty memberdrawerexhibition curator
- Biography
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Gerald Raymond McMaster is a curator, artist, and author and a Plains Cree member of the Siksika Nation. McMaster is a professor at OCAD University and is the adjunct curator at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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Evan Woolley
- Born in
- Canada
- Biography
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Evan Woolley is a municipal politician who served as councillor of Ward 8 in Calgary, Alberta. He was first elected in 2013, becoming the city's youngest councillor.
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William Sweet
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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William Sweet is a Canadian philosopher, and a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and of the Canadian Theological Society.
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Scott Fraser
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Kenneth Fraser is a Canadian politician who represented the Mid Island-Pacific Rim electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2005 to 2020. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 2005 election, and re-elected in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 elections. During the 41st Parliament (2017-2020) he served in the Executive Council as the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. In that role he led the government through adopting the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, with all party support, to implement the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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John Milloy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Christopher Milloy is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2014 who represented the riding of the Kitchener Centre. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.
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Michael Prue
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael David Prue is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Prue was mayor of East York, Ontario to 1997 and subsequently represented the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2001 to 2014 as member of the New Democratic Party (NDP)'s Queen's Park caucus. He was a candidate in the 2009 Ontario NDP leadership election, finishing in fourth place. In 2018, he was elected to the town council of Amherstburg, Ontario, and in 2022 he was elected its mayor.
