100 Notable alumni of
Carleton University
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Carleton University is 411th in the world, 162nd 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 sociology and criminology
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriteractorfilm producercomedian
- Biography
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Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM OOnt is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
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Norm Macdonald
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actortelevision presentertelevision producer
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Norman Gene Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, 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 praised his frequent appearances on talk shows, while late-night host David Letterman regarded him as "the best" of stand-up comedians.
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Gavin McInnes
- Occupations
- columnistscreenwriteractorfilm producercomedian
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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 his website Censored.TV. He co-founded Vice magazine in 1996 at the age of 26 and relocated to the United States in 2001. In 2016 he founded the Proud Boys, an American far-right militant 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 argued that he has only supported political violence in self-defense and that he is not far-right or a supporter of fascism, instead identifying as "a fiscal conservative and libertarian".
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Rob Ford
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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
- biographerpoliticianbusinesspersonautobiographerpublisher
- Biography
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, newspaper publisher, and financier.
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Hary Tanoesoedibjo
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonsocialitehead commissioner
- Biography
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Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo, usually shortened to Hary Tanoesoedibjo or Hary Tanoe, is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the chairman of PT MNC Asia Holding Tbk, which he founded in 1989. As the chairman, he oversees the holding company and its subsidiaries, including Media Nusantara Citra.
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Shane Smith
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Shane Smith is a Canadian journalist and media executive. 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 was 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
- astrophysicistwriterastronomernon-fiction writertheoretical physicist
- 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 a Kurdish kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer from Iran. 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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Akiko Kamei
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- secretaryinterpreterpolitician
- 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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Claudia Mo
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- 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
- writerdesigner
- Biography
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Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-born and Canadian-raised industrial designer. His designs encompass a wide range of products, including luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity, and packaging. According to Time magazine, Rashid is hailed as the "most famous industrial designer in all the Americas" and the "Prince of Plastic" for his innovative work. He is primarily located in New York City.
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Nive Nielsen
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- film actorcomposersinger-songwriteractor
- 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
- editorwriterjournalistactor
- 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".
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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
- broadcastermodelwriterdiplomatbeauty 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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k-os
- Occupations
- singerrecord producermusic video directorcomposerrapper
- 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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Robert MacNeil
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Studied in 1955
- Occupations
- writerjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil OC, often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995. The show eventually became the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and is today PBS News Hour.
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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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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 MP 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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Marco Mendicino
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Marco Mendicino PC MP 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
- diplomat
- Biography
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Dino Patti Djalal is a former Indonesian ambassador to the United States and Vice Foreign Minister of Indonesia. He resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2013 to pursue a presidential primary bid.
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David Azrieli
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief executive officerentrepreneurarchitectmanager
- Biography
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David Joshua Azrieli CM CQ 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
- engineercaricaturistscreenwriterwritercartoonist
- Biography
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Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer.
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Trevor Blackwell
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian-American computer programmer, engineer, entrepreneur and roboticist based in England.
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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Mary Ellen Elizabeth Turpel-Lafond is a Canadian lawyer and law professor. She has served as a judge and as a legislative advocate for children's rights.
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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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James Duthie
- Occupations
- journalistsports commentator
- Biography
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James Forbes Duthie is a Canadian sportscaster for TSN and the host of TSN's hockey coverage. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Carleton University.
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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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John Manley
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
- Biography
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John Paul Manley PC OC 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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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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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. 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 65)
- 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
- trade unionistpolitician
- 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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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 112 elections and lost 111. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call.
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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, animation voice artist, and comedian, producer and playwright/dramatist 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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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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Paul Calandra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul A. Calandra MPP is a Canadian politician who has served as a minister in the Ontario provincial cabinet since 2019. Calandra has been the minister of municipal affairs and housing since 2023. He previously served as the minister of long-term care from 2022 to 2023 and Government House Leader from 2019 to 2024. Calandra represents Markham—Stouffville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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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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Garnett Genuis
- Occupations
- columnistpolitician
- Biography
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Garnett Genuis MP /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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Thomas Scrubb
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Thomas Ryan Scrubb is a Canadian professional basketball player for La Laguna Tenerife of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played university basketball for the Carleton Ravens.
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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 was also a senior advisor to McMillan Vantage Policy Group, affiliated with McMillan LLP, a Canadian business law firm.
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Scott Reid
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisthistorian
- Biography
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Scott Jeffrey Reid MP 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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Rathika Sitsabaiesan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rathika Sitsabaiesan is a former Canadian 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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Judy Taguiwalo
- Occupations
- university teacherofficial
- 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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Mark Sutcliffe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Sutcliffe is a Canadian politician who has been the 59th mayor of Ottawa since 2022. Before entering politics, he hosted Ottawa Today on 1310News radio. Sutcliffe is the first Chinese Canadian and person from a visible minority group to serve as mayor of Ottawa.
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Tom Clark
- Occupations
- journalistpolitical reporter
- 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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Paul Okalik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Okalik MLA 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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Janice Charette
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Janice Charette is a Canadian public servant and diplomat who 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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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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Chris Bailey
- Occupations
- bloggeradviser
- 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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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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Christian Bök
- Occupations
- photographerpoet
- Biography
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Christian Bök, FRSC is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
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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. On 22 April 2024, Cressy announced on X that he had joined Waterfront Toronto as its chief of staff.
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David Chariandy
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- writerscholar of Englishuniversity teacher
- Biography
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David John Chariandy is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a Professor of English literature at the University of Toronto. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and Toronto Book Award.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon
- Occupations
- political scientistauthorprofessorecologist
- 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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Greg Ip
- Occupations
- journalist
- 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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Kellylee Evans
- Occupations
- jazz musiciansinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Kellylee Evans is a Canadian jazz and soul music vocalist.
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Kristen Bicknell
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Kristen Foxen is a Canadian professional poker player.
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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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Mike de Jong
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mike de Jong KC is a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of Matsqui from 1994 to 2001, Abbotsford-Mount Lehman from 2001 to 2009, and Abbotsford West from 2009 until 2024. 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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Anne Lagacé Dowson
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anne Lagacé Dowson is a Canadian radio journalist.
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Marc Lavoie
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistfencer
- 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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Omar Zakhilwal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal is an Afghan politician who served as the President's Special Representative and Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan from 2016 until 2018. He also served as Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2015. Since early 2019, Zakhilwal has been a key player in the IntraAfghan Dialogue for peace.
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Kerry Diotte
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- 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, CM, 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 CVO CD is a former Canadian Secretary to the Queen, 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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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 PC MP is a Canadian politician who is serving as the minister of Sport and minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada since 2024 and 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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Mathieu Chantelois
- Occupations
- journalisteditor
- Biography
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Mathieu Chantelois is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive.
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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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Rick Mofina
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Rick Mofina is a bestselling Canadian author of more than 30 crime fiction and thriller novels, with some 2 million copies of his books sold worldwide in nearly 30 countries. This includes an illegal Iranian translation of his first thriller, If Angels Fall. He grew up in Belleville, Ontario and began writing short stories in grade school. He sold his first short story at the age of fifteen. He sold subsequent short stories while in high school to various magazines. After finishing high school he worked for a few years in factories.
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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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Lynn Miles
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriterguitaristsinger
- 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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Paul T. P. Wong
- Occupations
- psychologistoratorclinical psychologistpsychotherapistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Paul T. P. Wong was 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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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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Alima Mahama
- Enrolled in Carleton University
- Graduated with diploma in public administration
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- 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 to the office by President 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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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
- politicianhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Pierre Sané is the founder president of the 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. Sané is one of Progressive International's global cabinet.
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Barry Blair
- Occupations
- inkerwritercoloristpenciller
- 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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Tamar Beruchashvili
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- diplomatpolitician
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Tamar Beruchashvili is a Georgian diplomat and politician who has been the Georgian best 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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Matthew Teitelbaum
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- exhibition curator
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Matthew D. Teitelbaum CM is a Canadian art historian, who is currently the director of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Chungsen Leung
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- businesspersonpolitician
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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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Mark Oldershaw
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- canoeist
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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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Clive Doucet
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- politiciannovelistpoet
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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, in 2018, he again ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Ottawa, this time finishing second with 22 per cent of the vote.
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Marianne Meed Ward
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- writer
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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. She represented Ward 2 in the Burlington City Council for two terms, from 2010 to 2018.
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Lynn Coady
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- writernovelist
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Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist and journalist.
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Jeremy Roberts
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- politician
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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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V. Kumar Murty
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Vijaya Kumar Murty FRSC is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working in number theory.
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Yazan Al-Bawwab
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- swimmer
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Yazan Al-Bawwab OLY is a Saudi-born Palestinian and Italian swimmer. He competed for Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Yazmeen Jamieson
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- association football player
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Yazmeen Alexis Jamieson is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Born in Canada, she represents the Jamaica women's national team.
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Lise Anne Couture
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- architect
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Lise Anne Couture is a Canadian 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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Jessica Scorpio
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- businessperson
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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
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- civil servant
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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) and is now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
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Robert Chisholm
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- trade unionistpolitician
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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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Sulekha Ali
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Somalia - Occupations
- musician
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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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Gerald McMaster
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- painterdraftspersonwriterfaculty membervideo artist
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Gerald Raymond McMaster CM 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.
