100 Notable alumni of
Concordia University
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Concordia University is 360th in the world, 148th in North America, and 9th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Concordia 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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Will Arnett
- Occupations
- film actorpodcastervoice actortelevision actor
- Biography
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William Emerson Arnett is a Canadian and American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and the titular character in the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). He has received nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Annie Murphy
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Anne Frances Murphy is a Canadian actress. She rose to international recognition for her starring role as Alexis Rose in the sitcom Schitt's Creek (2015–2020), for which she garnered acclaim and won a Primetime Emmy Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
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Gavin McInnes
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- Occupations
- columnistscreenwriteractorfilm producercomedian
- Biography
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Gavin Miles McInnes is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on 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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James Tupper
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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James Tupper is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Jack Slattery on the ABC television series Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands on the NBC medical drama series Mercy, and David Clarke on ABC's Revenge. He also starred in the post-apocalyptic thriller Aftermath, on Space in Canada and Syfy in the U.S., and in the HBO series Big Little Lies.
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Antoni Porowski
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in psychology
- Occupations
- actortelevision personalitymodeltelevision actorchef
- Biography
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Antoni Janusz Porowski is a Canadian television personality, cook, actor, model, and author. He is the food and wine expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye (2018–present).
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Austin St. John
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jason Lawrence Geiger, professionally known as Austin St. John, is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Jason Lee Scott in the Power Rangers franchise.
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Santino Marella
- Occupations
- professional wrestlermixed martial arts fighterjudoka
- Biography
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Anthony Carelli, better known by the ring name Santino Marella, is a Canadian professional wrestler, judoka, and comedian. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he works as the on-screen director of authority. He is best known for his 11-year tenure with WWE. He is the founder of and instructor at Battle Arts Academy, a martial arts and professional wrestling training facility in Mississauga, Ontario, and the official ambassador of Judo Canada.
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Melissa Auf der Maur
- Occupations
- singer-songwriteractorfilm producermodelrecord producer
- Biography
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Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur is a Canadian musician.
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Kathleen Zellner
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Kathleen Zellner is an American attorney who has worked extensively in wrongful conviction advocacy. Notable clients Zellner has represented include Steven Avery, Kevin Fox (who was falsely accused of murdering his daughter), Ryan W. Ferguson, Larry Eyler, and 19 exonerees who are listed in the National Registry of Exonerations.
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Régine Chassagne
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriterpianistsinger
- Biography
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Régine Alexandra Chassagne is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, and is a member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.
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Tasya Teles
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Tasya Teles is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Echo in The CW's The 100. Teles has also played Kendra in DirecTV's Rogue, Nat in the Crave series Shoresy, and Daniella in BBC America's Intruders.
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Emily Haines
- Occupations
- keyboardistmusiciansingerpianistsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Emily Savitri Haines is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano.
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Anna Hopkins
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Anna Hopkins is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Lilith in Freeform's original series Shadowhunters and documentary filmmaker Monica Stuart in The Expanse.
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Gabriel LaBelle
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Gabriel LaBelle is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his leading role as young aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022), for which he received acclaim and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
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Clark Johnson
- Occupations
- film produceractorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Clark Johnson is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in E.N.G. (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008). He is an Emmy Award and two-time Genie Award nominee.
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Angela Tong
- Occupations
- modelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Angela Tong is a Hong Kong actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong, China. She was Miss Chinese Montreal 1995. She was educated in Concordia University.
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Barbara Dunkelman
- Occupations
- television producerpodcasterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Barbara Julie Dunkelman is a Canadian actress and internet personality. She is known for her work with the former production company Rooster Teeth, where she served as a Creative Director and was formerly the Director of Social and Community Marketing and a Program Director for RTX. She also provides the voice of Yang Xiao Long in the web series RWBY and Nerris in Camp Camp, and is a partial owner of the FCF Wild Aces Indoor Football Team.
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Mila Mulroney
- Biography
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Milica "Mila" Mulroney is the widow of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. She was notable for taking on a greater role during her husband's tenure than previous spouses of Canadian prime ministers and for her work for children's charities; she was also criticized for her lavish spending habits. She is the chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where her late husband attended.
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J. C. MacKenzie
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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John Charles MacKenzie is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Skip Fontaine on the HBO series Vinyl (2016) and Reagan "Normal" Ronald on the Fox series Dark Angel (2000–2002). He has also appeared in several films directed by Martin Scorsese, including The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and The Irishman (2019).
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
- Occupations
- civil engineerwriterchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer of both crime novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into English by Bernard Scudder. The central character in her crime novels so far is Thóra Gudmundsdóttir (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir), a lawyer. Yrsa has also written for children, and won the 2003 Icelandic Children's Book Prize with Biobörn.
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Dave Reichert
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
- Biography
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David George Reichert is an American retired police officer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2019. A moderate member of the Republican Party, he served as the sheriff of King County, Washington, from 1997 to 2005.
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Milosh
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- musiciansingersongwriter
- Biography
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Mike Milosh, known professionally as Milosh, is a Canadian electronic musician from Toronto, who is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
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Peter M. Lenkov
- Occupations
- film producertelevision producerscreenwriterwritershowrunner
- Biography
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Peter M. Lenkov is a Canadian television and film writer, producer, and comic book author. He is best known as the developer and showrunner of the CBS reboot series Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I., until his firing in July 2020.
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Martin Villeneuve
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mars et Avril, his feature film debut. He is also known for The 12 Tasks of Imelda, his second feature film released in 2022, in which he portrays his own grandmother, and for his animated series Red Ketchup which premiered in 2023. Villeneuve previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
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Liane Balaban
- Occupations
- screenwritermodelactor
- Biography
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Liane Balaban is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in New Waterford Girl (1999) as Agnes-Marie "Mooney" Pottie. She has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe (2008), Last Chance Harvey (2008), and the independent drama One Week (2008). She has guest-starred on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles, Covert Affairs and Alphas, and joined the cast of Supernatural for its eighth season.
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Maziar Bahari
- Occupations
- film directorjournalisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Maziar Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 21, 2009 to October 17, 2009, and has written a family memoir, Then They Came for Me, a New York Times best seller. His memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's 2014 film Rosewater. Bahari later founded the IranWire citizen journalism news site, the freedom of expression campaign Journalism Is Not A Crime and the education and public art organization Paint the Change.
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Ann Chiang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ann Chiang Lai-wan, SBS, JP, is the chair of C&L Holdings and a former pro-Beijing member of Hong Kong Legislative Council. She is the second daughter of Chiang Chen who was a Hong Kong entrepreneur.
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Pascale Bussières
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Pascale Bussières is a French Canadian actress. Her credits include Sonatine (1984), Eldorado (1995), When Night Is Falling (1995), August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) (1998), Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) (2004), Afterwards (2008), The Demons (Les Démons) (2015), Death of a Ladies' Man (2020), Bootlegger (2021), and Frontiers (Frontières) (2023).
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Jonathan Goldstein
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistradio personality
- Biography
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Jonathan Goldstein is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. Goldstein has worked on radio programs and podcasts such as Heavyweight, This American Life, and WireTap. Goldstein's work has been academically examined as representative of "the positioning of Jews and Canadians as potentially overlooked minorities in the late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States".
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Mylène Dinh-Robic
- Occupations
- film actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Mylène Dinh-Robic is a Canadian actress.
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Arsinée Khanjian
- Occupations
- film actorstage actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Arsinée Khanjian is a Canadian actress and activist. She is widely known for her collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Atom Egoyan. She won the 2003 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Ararat.
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Mariloup Wolfe
- Occupations
- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Mariloup Wolfe is a Canadian actress and film director. She went to F.A.C.E. School, an art school in Montreal. She holds a major in Film Production from Concordia University (2001) and a minor in Cultural Studies from McGill University (1999). Mariloup Wolfe became famous through her role as Marianne in the popular TV series Ramdam broadcast since 2001 on Télé-Québec.
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Richard Parry
- Occupations
- pianistrecord producersongwriter
- Biography
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Richard Reed Parry is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switching between guitar, double bass, drums, celesta, keyboards, and accordion.
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Aivaras Abromavičius
- Occupations
- politicianbankerinvestment bankerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Aivaras Abromavičius is a Lithuanian-born investor and politician. He was Ukraine's Minister of Economy and Trade starting in December 2014 (Abromavičius announced his resignation on 3 February 2016). He did not retain his post in the Groysman Government that was installed on 14 April 2016. Abromavičius was Director General of Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's largest defense industry enterprise, from 31 August 2019 until 6 October 2020. He is a majority shareholder of Ukrainian agricultural company Agro Region.
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Mauro Biello
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mauro Biello is a Canadian professional soccer assistant coach and former player who was the interim head coach of the Canada men's national team. He played as a forward for several Canadian and American lower division clubs, namely Montreal Supra, Buffalo Blizzard, Rochester Raging Rhinos, and Toronto Thunderhawks. He also spent a total of 16 seasons with the second division Montreal Impact, for whom he is the all-time statistical leader in goals and appearances, with over 80 goals and over 300 games for the team. As a Canadian international, he was capped four times from 1995 until 2000.
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Timothy Harris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Sylvester Harris is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician, who served as the third prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 August 2001 to 25 January 2008, as Minister of Finance from 2008 to 2010, and as Senior Minister and Minister for Agriculture from 2010 to 2013.
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Craig Button
- Occupations
- ice hockey playersports commentatorsports executive
- Biography
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Craig J. Button is currently a ice hockey analyst for TSN and a former National Hockey League (NHL) executive.
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Mario Dumont
- Occupations
- television presenterpolitician
- Biography
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Mario Dumont is a Canadian television personality and former politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), from 1994 to 2009. After the 2007 Quebec election, Dumont obtained the post of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly.
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Kim Nguyen
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch (Rebelle) which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Alexandre Bilodeau
- Occupations
- freestyle skier
- Biography
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Alexandre Bilodeau is a Canadian retired freestyle skier from Rosemere, Quebec, Bilodeau currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. Bilodeau won a gold medal in the men's moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, becoming the first Canadian to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Canada. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he became the first Olympian in history to defend his gold medal in any freestyle skiing event as well as the first Canadian to defend an individual title since Catriona Le May Doan at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bilodeau is a three-time FIS World Champion in dual moguls, and is also a two-time Worlds silver medallist in moguls. He was the FIS World Cup champion for the 2008–09 season winning the moguls and overall freestyle skiing title that season. In his final World Cup race, he retired with a win, and in doing so, surpassed Jean-Luc Brassard for the most World Cup medals by a Canadian.
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Spencer Krug
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Spencer Krug is a Canadian musician. He is the singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the indie rock band Wolf Parade and has recorded solo under both his own name and the name Moonface. He has also performed with other Canadian bands including Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Frog Eyes, Fifths of Seven, and ska band the Two Tonne Bowlers, playing various instruments. His involvement in many musical acts has garnered him a noticeably high output of work, being credited on several releases a year. He is known for his distinctive voice and songwriting abilities.
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Leni Parker
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Leni Parker is a Canadian television and film actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the androgynous alien Da'an in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.
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René Balcer
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwritershowrunnerfilm director
- Biography
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René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer, and showrunner, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker.
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Lorena Gale
- Occupations
- theatrical directoractorplaywright
- Biography
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Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, Angélique and Je me souviens.
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Anthony Housefather
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anthony Housefather MP is a Canadian Member of Parliament representing the riding of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal. From 2015 to 2019, Housefather served as the Chair of the Justice and Human Rights Committee. Following the 2019 election, he was named the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour. Following the 2021 federal election, Housefather was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, a position he held until fall 2023. In 2024, he became Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board.
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Geneviève Jeanson
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year. She acknowledged in a documentary on Radio-Canada (the French-language CBC) on September 20, 2007, that she had been administered EPO more or less continuously since she was 16 years old.
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Jonah Keri
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Jonah Keri is a Canadian former journalist, sportswriter, and editor. He is currently serving a prison sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of domestic violence offences.
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Harley Finkelstein
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Harley Finkelstein is a Canadian businessperson, entrepreneur and public speaker. He is best known as the president of Shopify. He is a board member of the CBC, and an advisor to both OMERS Ventures and Felicis Ventures. He is also a Dragon on CBC Dragons' Den, Next Gen Den.
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Steven Cojocaru
- Occupations
- diarist
- Biography
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Steven Cojocaru, is a Canadian television fashion critic. He was born in Montreal, Quebec to Romanian parents. Cojocaru started out as a magazine columnist and eventually began working on American television shows as a correspondent and interviewer, working on Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show, The Insider and Access Hollywood.
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Glen Murray
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Glen Ronald Murray is a Canadian politician and urban issues advocate who served as the 41st Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1998 to 2004, and was the first openly gay mayor of a large North American city. He subsequently moved to Toronto, Ontario, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Toronto Centre in 2010, serving until 2017.
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Michelle Latimer
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Michelle Latimer is a Canadian actress, director, writer, and filmmaker. She initially rose to prominence for her role as Trish Simkin on the television series Paradise Falls, shown nationally in Canada on Showcase Television. Since the early 2010s, she has directed several documentaries, including her feature film directorial debut, Alias (2013), and the Viceland series, Rise, which focuses on the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests; the latter won a Canadian Screen Award at the 6th annual ceremony in 2018.
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Léa Clermont-Dion
- Occupations
- researcherfilm director
- Biography
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Léa Clermont-Dion is a Canadian author, feminist, television and radio host, and body image advocate. She was a co-facilitator, with Jacinthe Veillette, and spokesperson of the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. Clermont-Dion came to public attention during an appearance on the television programme Tout le monde en parle in October 2009. She is a doctoral student in political science at Laval University and the author of La revanche des moches (2014) and Les Superbes (2016).
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Mutsumi Takahashi
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Mutsumi Takahashi CM is a Japanese-Canadian journalist. Since 1986, she has been one of the lead news presenters of CFCF-DT in Montreal, Quebec.
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Nicholas Thorburn
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Nick Thorburn, also known by his stage name Nick Diamonds, is a Canadian musician originally from Campbell River. He has fronted numerous bands such as The Unicorns, Th' Corn Gangg, Islands, Reefer, and Human Highway.
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Stephen Surjik
- Occupations
- directorfilm director
- Biography
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Stephen Surjik is a film and television director, and producer.
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Occupations
- multimedia artistpainterdigital artistarchitectsculptor
- Biography
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer RCA is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He creates platforms for public participation by using robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his interactive works are “anti-monuments for people to self-represent.”
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Nadim Kobeissi
- Occupations
- cryptographer
- Biography
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Nadim Kobeissi is a French-Lebanese computer science researcher specialized in applied cryptography. He is the author of Cryptocat, an open-source encrypted web chat client. Kobeissi is also known for speaking publicly against Internet censorship and Internet surveillance.
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Nathalie Petrowski
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritercriticnovelistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Nathalie Petrowski is a French-born Canadian journalist and writer living in Quebec.
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Josh Matlow
- Occupations
- environmentalist
- Biography
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Josh Matlow is a Canadian politician who has served on the Toronto City Council representing Ward 12 Toronto—St. Paul's since 2010.
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Patrick Kwok-Choon
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Patrick Kwok-Choon is a Canadian actor, best known for his recurring roles as Perry Crofte in the television adaptation of the horror Western comic book miniseries Wynonna Earp and as lieutenant commander Gen. Rhys in the CBS science fiction drama Star Trek: Discovery.
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Rawi Hage
- Occupations
- photographerwritervisual artistnovelist
- Biography
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Rawi Hage is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada.
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Chloé Robichaud
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chloé Robichaud is a Canadian director best known for her debut film Sarah Prefers to Run. The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
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Daniel Blaikie
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Blaikie is a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament for Elmwood—Transcona from October 19, 2015 until March 31, 2024. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election.
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Sarah Thornton
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- sociologistethnographerresearcher
- Biography
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Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored four books and many articles about artists, the art market, bodies, people, culture, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, and ethnographic research methods.
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Dimitri Soudas
- Biography
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Dimitri Soudas is the former Director of Communications to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, former executive director of the Canadian Olympic Committee and former executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Jana Sterbak
- Occupations
- artistvisual artistphotographermultimedia artistvideo artist
- Biography
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Jana Sterbak is a multidisciplinary artist of Czech origin.
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Wong Yuk-shan
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Professor Wong Yuk-shan, SBS, BBS, JP is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He is the former president of the Open University of Hong Kong, a Hong Kong deputy of the National People's Congress of China and its member of the Committee of the Hong Kong Basic Law.
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Jennifer Hollett
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jennifer Hollett is a Canadian media executive and former television personality and political activist. She was the 2015 New Democratic Party's candidate in the new riding of University—Rosedale. Hollett has a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Journalism and Communications from Concordia University in Montreal, and a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Michèle Audette
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michèle Taïna Audette is a Canadian politician and activist. She served as president of Femmes autochtones du Québec (Quebec Native Women) from 1998 to 2004 and again from 2010 to 2012. She was also the president of Native Women's Association of Canada from 2012 to 2014. From 2004 through 2008, she served as Associate Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Relations with Citizens and Immigration of the Quebec government, where she was in charge of the Secretariat for Women.
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Édouard Lock
- Occupations
- choreographerphotographer
- Biography
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Édouard Lock is a Canadian dance choreographer and the founder of the Canadian dance group, La La La Human Steps.
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Tim Baker
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Tim Baker is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The longtime lead singer of the indie rock band Hey Rosetta!, his first solo album Forever Overhead was released on April 19, 2019, on Arts & Crafts.
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Alex Tyrrell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alex Tyrrell is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Green Party of Quebec since 2013.
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Louise Archambault
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Louise Archambault is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter. She is best known for her films Familia, which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005, and Gabrielle, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture in 2014.
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Michael Thompson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Thompson is a Canadian politician who has been a Toronto city councillor since 2003. He currently represents Ward 21 Scarborough Centre.
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Gordon O'Connor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon James O'Connor, PC OMM CD is a retired brigadier-general, businessman, and lobbyist, who served as Conservative Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2015.
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Charles Sams
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in business administration
- Occupations
- director of communicationsdirector
- Biography
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Charles F. Sams III is an American conservationist who served as the 19th director of the National Park Service from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Sams is the first Native American to serve as head of the NPS.
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Cecil Castellucci
- Occupations
- children's writermusicianscreenwriterfilm directorwriter
- Biography
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Cecil C. Castellucci, also known as Cecil Seaskull, is an American-born Canadian young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Gina Cody
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Gina Parvaneh Cody CM is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
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Torill Kove
- Occupations
- animatorfilm directorscreenwriterdirectorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Torill Kove is a Norwegian-born Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film The Danish Poet, co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada.
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Jacques Chagnon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacques Chagnon is a retired Canadian politician who served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 2018. A member of Quebec Liberal Party, he was appointed Minister of Education in 1994, when his party went back on to form government in 2003, he was appointed Minister of Public Security until 2005.
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Joëlle Boutin
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joëlle Boutin is a former Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election on December 2, 2019. She represented the electoral district of Jean-Talon as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. She resigned on July 19, 2023, to join the private sector. The by-election to replace her was scheduled for October 2, 2023, which was won by the Parti Québécois candidate Pascal Paradis.
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Rebecca Blaikie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rebecca Blaikie is a Canadian politician, who served as president of the New Democratic Party from 2011 to 2016.
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Francis Scarpaleggia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Scarpaleggia MP is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, which encompasses the west of the island of Montreal, Quebec. Scarpaleggia was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 federal election, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2021. He is chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development and previously served on a variety of House of Commons committees; namely, the committees on Public Safety, Canadian Heritage, Transport, and Government Operations and Estimates. He was also chair of the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, a committee created pursuant to a 2015 Liberal election platform commitment on electoral reform. From 2011 to 2021 he served as the chair of the National Liberal Caucus, an eventful period in Canadian politics that saw the Liberal Party of Canada move from third-party status in the House of Commons (second opposition party) to forming government in one election cycle under the leadership of Justin Trudeau.
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Yung Chang
- Occupations
- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm.
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Nino Ricci
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Nino Pio Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise.
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Juliette Gariepy
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Juliette Gariépy is a Canadian actress and model from Quebec. She attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the independent feature film Red Rooms, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023, and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.
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Peter Schiefke
- Occupations
- politicianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Peter Schiefke MP is a Canadian environmentalist and Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Vaudreuil—Soulanges in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
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Deragh Campbell
- Occupations
- film actorfilm director
- Biography
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Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), and Point and Line to Plane (2020)—have screened at film festivals internationally. Campbell has also starred in three of Kazik Radwanski's feature films; she played a small role in How Heavy This Hammer (2015), the lead role in Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), and opposite Matt Johnson in Matt and Mara (2024).
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Paul Hartal
- Occupations
- writerpainterpoet
- Biography
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Paul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, attempting to unite the scientific with the creative, or intuitive.
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Denim
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- drag queen
- Biography
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Denim, formerly known as Denim Pussy, is the stage name of Emerson Sanderson, a Canadian drag performer who competed on season 4 of Canada's Drag Race.
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Kyle Thomas
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
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Kyle Thomas is a Canadian screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. His first feature film, The Valley Below, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. It garnered two Canadian Screen Award nominations in the categories of Best Supporting Actor for Kris Demeanor and Best Original Song for Dan Mangan's "Wants". The film received largely positive reviews from the Canadian media, including The Globe and Mail and the National Post, who called the film a "superb first feature".
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Mohamed Hashish
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Mohamed Hashish is an Egyptian-born research scientist best known as the father of the abrasive water jet cutter.
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David Birnbaum
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Birnbaum is a Canadian politician, activist, and former journalist. Birnbaum was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of D'Arcy-McGee as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party until his retirement from politics at the 2022 Quebec general election. He was the Opposition Critic for Indigenous Affairs, and was formerly the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education and Higher Education, and was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier of Quebec. He sits on the Committee on Citizen Relations.
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Mireille Gingras
- Occupations
- entrepreneurneurobiologistneuroscientist
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Mireille Gingras Gillings, is a US-based Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur. She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm in 2004, and is the San Diego, California, company's CEO and Executive Chair. The company has offices in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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Todd Swift
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Stanley Todd Swift, is a British-Canadian poet, screenwriter, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom.
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Lee Mellor
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Lee Mellor is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, criminologist and songwriter.
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Meryam Joobeur
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- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Meryam Joobeur is a Tunisian Canadian film director. She is most noted for her 2018 short film Brotherhood, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
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Debra Arbec
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- journalist
- Biography
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Debra Arbec is a Canadian television journalist, who has been the lead anchor on CBMT-DT, the CBC Television station in Montreal, Quebec, since 2011. She is most noted as the winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local Anchor at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.
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Pietro Amato
- Born in
- Canada
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- jazz musicianmusicianhorn player
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Pietro Amato is a French horn player with the rock bands Torngat, Bell Orchestre, and The Luyas. He has also performed with Arcade Fire.
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Aisling Chin-Yee
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Studied filmmaking
- Occupations
- film screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Aisling Chin-Yee is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, who works primarily in Montreal and Los Angeles. In addition to her work as a producer, Chin-Yee directed the films The Rest of Us (2019) and No Ordinary Man (2020).
