100 Notable alumni of
Carleton University
Carleton University is 417th in the world, 170th 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
- television actorvoice actortelevision producerufologistsinger
- Biography
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Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. Aykroyd was a writer and an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" cast on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until his departure in 1979. During his tenure on SNL, he appeared in a recurring series of sketches, particularly featuring the Coneheads and the Blues Brothers. For his work on the show, he received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1977. After his departure, he has since returned to guest roles.
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Norm Macdonald
- Occupations
- television producervoice actorstand-up comediancomedianfilm actor
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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.
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Gavin McInnes
- Occupations
- pundittalk show hostwritercolumnistscreenwriter
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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 neo-fascist organization designated as a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand. 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
- 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
- publisherpoliticianhistorianautobiographerbiographer
- Biography
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian-British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer.
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Hary Tanoesoedibjo
- Occupations
- socialitebusinessperson
- Biography
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Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo or Hary Tanoesoedibjo, also known as Hary Tanoe for short 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 and develops the strategy of the holding company and its subsidiaries, including a media giant Media Nusantara Citra (MNC).
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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
- writerastrophysicisttheoretical physicistinternational forum participantastronomer
- Biography
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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, 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
- composermusician
- Biography
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Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian-Kurdish kamancheh and setar player and 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
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Claudia Mo, also known as Claudia Bowring, 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 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 44)
- Occupations
- musiciansinger-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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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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Graydon Carter
- Occupations
- journalistactoreditorwriter
- 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 launched a new weekly newsletter called Air Mail, which is for "worldly cosmopolitans".
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Norm Kelly
- 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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Jennifer Hosten
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodeldiplomat
- 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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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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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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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
- writerjournalisttelevision presenter
- 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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Dino Patti Djalal
- Occupations
- diplomatinternational forum participant
- 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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Ryan North
- Occupations
- cartoonistprogrammerengineercaricaturistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer.
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David Azrieli
- Occupations
- entrepreneurarchitectmanagerbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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David Joshua Azrieli, was an Israeli-Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion as of March 2013, Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the ninth wealthiest Canadian and 401st in the world.
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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 VI 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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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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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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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 Manley
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticiandiplomat
- 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 Iberostar Tenerife of the 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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Trevor Blackwell
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Trevor Blackwell is an American computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
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Shona Brown
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 63)
- 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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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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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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Kristen Bicknell
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian professional poker player.
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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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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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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 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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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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Scott Reid
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisthistorian
- 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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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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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 long-term care since 2022. Calandra represents Markham—Stouffville in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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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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Garnett Genuis
- Occupations
- columnistpolitician
- 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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Janice Charette
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Janice Charette is a Canadian public servant and diplomat serving as the clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the Cabinet since 2021. Charette was the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2021 and previously served as clerk of the Privy Council from 2014 to 2016.
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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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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 has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
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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 Liga ACB.
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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
- journalistpolitical journalist
- 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 Consul General to New York.
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Thomas Homer-Dixon
- Occupations
- professorecologistpolitical scientistauthor
- 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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Chris Bailey
- Occupations
- bloggeradvisor
- 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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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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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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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Mary Ellen Elizabeth Turpel-Lafond is a Canadian lawyer, former judge, and legislative advocate for children's rights.
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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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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 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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Mike de Jong
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mike de Jong, is a provincial politician and was cabinet minister of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. He represents the electoral district of Abbotsford as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party.
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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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Marc Lavoie
- Occupations
- economistfenceruniversity teacher
- 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
- 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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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
- journalisteditor
- Biography
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Mathieu Chantelois is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive.
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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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Michael Colle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Colle is a Canadian politician who has represented Ward 8 Eglinton—Lawrence on Toronto City Council since 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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Rick Mofina
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- 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, and the Crime Writers' Association and Crime Writers of Canada, Rick continues to be a featured panelist at mystery conferences across the United States and Canada.
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Lynn Miles
- Occupations
- guitaristsingermusiciansongwriter
- 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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Saša Petricic
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Saša Petricic is a Canadian journalist. He is currently the Asia Correspondent and videojournalist for CBC Television's The National and other CBC News programs, based in Beijing, China. He previously spent four years covering the Middle East.
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Pierre Sané
- Occupations
- politicianhuman rights activist
- 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 - June 2010. He was Secretary General of Amnesty International from October 1992 to April 2001.
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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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Clive Doucet
- Occupations
- poetpoliticiannovelist
- 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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Paul T. P. Wong
- Occupations
- psychotherapistuniversity teacherresearcherexistential therapistpsychologist
- 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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Chungsen Leung
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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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Lynn Coady
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist and journalist.
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Bernie Farber
- Occupations
- administrator
- Biography
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Bernie M. Farber is a 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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Tamar Beruchashvili
- Occupations
- international forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
- 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 November 11, 2014 until September 1, 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 November 11, 2014, and held that post until September 1, 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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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 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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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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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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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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Yazmeen Jamieson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Yazmeen Alexis Jamieson is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Simcoe County Rovers FC in League1 Ontario. Born in Canada, she represents the Jamaica women's national team.
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V. Kumar Murty
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- 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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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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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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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
- trade unionistpolitician
- 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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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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Gerald McMaster
- Occupations
- exhibition curatordrawerwriterpainter
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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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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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Paul Ferreira
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Ferreira is a Canadian politician and one of the first openly gay politicians elected to provincial office in Canada. He also has the distinction of being the very first Azorean-Canadian MPP. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) in the February 8, 2007 York South–Weston by-election, but was narrowly defeated in the 2007 general election. He subsequently served as chief of staff to party leader Howard Hampton until Hampton's retirement from that position in 2009. He later worked as a special assistant to leader Andrea Horwath. On Feb. 8, 2011, Ferreira was acclaimed as the Ontario NDP's candidate in York South-Weston in the 2011 provincial election.
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William Sweet
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- university teacherphilosopher
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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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James Byron Bissett
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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James Byron Bissett is a Canadian former diplomat. He was High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and later Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.
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Saleema Nawaz
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Saleema Nawaz is a Canadian author whose works of short fiction have been published in literary journals such as Prairie Fire, PRISM International, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly. Nawaz was born in Ottawa, Ontario and later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in order to study English at the University of Manitoba, where she received her M.A. with a creative writing thesis. Her first complete collection of short fiction, entitled Mother Superior, was published by Freehand Books in 2008. Nawaz completed her first novel, Bone and Bread, published by Anansi Press in 2013, while residing in Montreal, Quebec.
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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 from 1993 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 where he now lives, and in 2022 he was elected its mayor.
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Frances Guy
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Frances Mary Guy is a British former ambassador and UN Women's representative, now chief executive of Scotland's International Development Alliance.
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Lyal S. Sunga
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- international humanitarian lawinternational lawyerUniversity professorhuman rights activistinternational human rights law
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Lyal S. Sunga is a well-known specialist on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
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John Kirton
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- researcherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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John James Kirton is professor emeritus of political science and the director and founder of the G7 Research Group, director and founder of the G20 Research Group, founder and co-director (with James Orbinski) of the Global Health Diplomacy Program, and founder and co-founder (with Marina Larionova of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) of the BRICS Research Group, based at University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto.
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Rosemary Thompson
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rosemary Thompson is the founding executive director of the Coalition for a Better Future, a broad based organization bringing together more than 131 organizations in the private, public and not-for-profit spheres that support a long-term plan to address economic growth, inequality and climate change in Canada. The Coalition is co-chaired by former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan and former Conservative Deputy Leader Lisa Raitt. Thompson is a former senior executive with the National Gallery of Canada, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Canada's National Arts Centre. She worked as deputy bureau chief of the parliamentary bureau for CTV News. She was a reporter and frequent guest host on CTV programs including Question Period and Mike Duffy Live. A veteran political correspondent, she covered 7 election campaigns in the United States, Quebec and Canada.
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Geoff Pevere
- Occupations
- literary criticfilm criticjournalist
- Biography
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Geoff Pevere is a Canadian lecturer, author, broadcaster, teacher, arts and media critic, currently the program director of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival in Toronto. He is a former film critic, book columnist and cultural journalist for the Toronto Star, where he worked from 1998 to 2011. His writing has appeared in several newspapers, magazines and arts journals, and he has worked as a broadcaster for both radio and television. He has lectured widely on cultural and media topics, and taught courses at several Canadian universities and colleges. In 2012, he contributed weekly pop culture columns to CBC Radio Syndication, which were heard in nearly twenty markets across Canada. He has also been a movie columnist and regular freelance contributor with The Globe and Mail.
