100 Notable alumni of
Concordia University
Concordia University is 356th in the world, 149th 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
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- film actorpodcastervoice actortelevision actor
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William Emerson Arnett is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and as the titular character in the Netflix series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). He has appeared in films such as Let's Go to Prison (2006), Blades of Glory (2007), Semi-Pro (2008), G-Force (2009), Jonah Hex (2010), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and Show Dogs (2018).
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Gavin McInnes
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English studies
- 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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Antoni Porowski
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in psychology
- Occupations
- television actorchefactortelevision personalitymodel
- 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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James Tupper
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- television actorfilm actoractor
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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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Santino Marella
- Occupations
- professional wrestlermixed martial arts fighterjudoka
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Anthony 'Tony' Carelli, better known by the ring name, Santino Marella, is a Canadian professional wrestler and judoka. He is currently signed with Impact Wrestling. 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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Austin St. John
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- judokataekwondo athletemixed martial arts fightertelevision actoractor
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Jason Lawrence Geiger, professionally known as Austin St. John, is an American actor, martial artist, and paramedic best known for his portrayal of Jason Lee Scott in the Power Rangers franchise.
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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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Melissa Auf der Maur
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- musicianbloggerphotographerguitaristrecording artist
- Biography
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Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur is a Canadian musician.
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Régine Chassagne
- Occupations
- pianistsingermusiciansongwriter
- 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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Anna Hopkins
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- actorfilm actorvoice actortelevision actor
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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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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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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 producerpodcasteractor
- Biography
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Barbara Julie Dunkelman is a Canadian actress and internet personality. She is known for her work with the production company Rooster Teeth, where she serves 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 is a partial owner of the FCF Wild Aces Indoor Football Team.
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Clark Johnson
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- television actorfilm produceractorfilm actorfilm director
- 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).
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Mordecai Richler
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- children's writernovelistessayistplaywrightscreenwriter
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Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.
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J. C. MacKenzie
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- television actorfilm actoractor
- 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 Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and The Irishman (2019).
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
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- writerchildren's writer
- 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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Mila Mulroney
- Biography
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Milica "Mila" Mulroney is the wife 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, for her work for children's charities, and for criticism of her lavish spending habits.
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Milosh
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- songwritermusiciansinger
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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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Dave Reichert
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
- Biography
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David George Reichert is an American politician, veteran, and former sheriff who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2019. He is a Republican and is the former elected sheriff of King County, Washington. In September 2017, Reichert announced that he would retire from Congress after his seventh term.
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Paul Boyd
- Occupations
- animator
- Biography
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Paul G. Boyd was an American-born Canadian animator. He was a member of a.k.a. Cartoon, the production team for Cartoon Network's Ed, Edd, and Eddy, as a title sequence animator and director. He began his career working for International Rocketship on two Gary Larson specials. During his career he taught at Vancouver Film School and worked at many animation studios in Vancouver. His work directing for Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!, along with co-director Moose Pagen, was nominated for an Annie Award in 2001.
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Ann Chiang
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- 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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Peter M. Lenkov
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- writershowrunnerfilm producertelevision producerscreenwriter
- 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 showrunner of the reboot series Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I., all of which aired on CBS when he was showrunner.
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Maziar Bahari
- Occupations
- human rights activistfilm directorjournalist
- 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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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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Martin Villeneuve
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- screenwriterwriterfilm director
- 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, and Quebec's first true science fiction movie. 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 premiering in 2023. Villeneuve is the first TED speaker to come out of Quebec, and he has previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
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Pascale Bussières
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- screenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Pascale Bussières is a French Canadian actress.
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Jonathan Goldstein
- Occupations
- radio personalityscreenwriternovelist
- 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
- voice actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Mylène Dinh-Robic is a Canadian actress.
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Aivaras Abromavičius
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinternational forum participantbankerpoliticianinvestment banker
- Biography
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Aivaras Abromavičius is a Lithuanian-born Ukrainian investment banker 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 in 14 April 2016. Abromavičius was Director General of Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's largest defense industry enterprise, from 31 August 2019 until 6 October 2020.
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Mariloup Wolfe
- Occupations
- actorfilm director
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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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Arsinée Khanjian
- Occupations
- film directoractorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-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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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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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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Kim Nguyen
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- film directorfilm screenwriterfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch. The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards; in addition to being named Best Picture and winning acting awards for two of its stars, Nguyen himself won the awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
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Craig Button
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- sports executiveice hockey playersports commentator
- 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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Richard Parry
- Occupations
- record producersongwriterpianist
- 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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Mauro Biello
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mauro Biello is a Canadian professional assistant coach and former player who has been an assistant coach of the Canada men's national team since 2018. 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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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 also records under 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 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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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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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 on Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show, The Insider and Access Hollywood.
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Lorena Gale
- Occupations
- playwrighttheatrical directoractor
- 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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René Balcer
- Occupations
- film directortelevision producerscreenwritershowrunner
- Biography
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René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer, and showrunner.
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Sarah Hoffman
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Marjorie Hoffman is a Canadian politician who served as the 10th deputy premier of Alberta and minister of Health in the cabinet of Rachel Notley. Hoffman was previously a member of the Edmonton Public School Board, where she served from 2010 to 2015 and from 2012 onward as chair. Prior to her service on the school board, she was the research director of the Alberta Legislature New Democrat caucus. After stepping down from the School Board, she was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Edmonton-Glenora for the Alberta NDP. On May 24, 2015 she was sworn in as Minister of Health and Minister of Seniors for the province of Alberta. Following a cabinet reshuffle on 2 February 2016, she retained the Health portfolio and became deputy premier, primarily responsible for answering questions to the premier when the premier is not present in the Legislature.
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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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Nicholas Thorburn
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Nicholas 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 Canadian film and television director, and producer.
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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 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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Anthony Housefather
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anthony Housefather 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.
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Mutsumi Takahashi
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Mutsumi Takahashi 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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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Occupations
- sculptornew media artistpaintermultimedia artist
- Biography
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. Lozano-Hemmer lives and works in Montreal and Madrid.
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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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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
- opinion journalistjournalistliterary criticscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Nathalie Petrowski is a French-born Canadian journalist and writer living in Quebec.
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Rawi Hage
- Occupations
- novelistphotographerwritervisual artist
- Biography
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Rawi Hage is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Canada.
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Jennifer Hollett
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 48)
- 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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Sarah Thornton
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- sociologistethnographerresearcher
- Biography
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Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored three books and many articles about artists, the art market, technology and design, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures, and ethnographic research methods.
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Jana Sterbak
- Occupations
- artistphotographervisual artistmultimedia artist
- Biography
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Jana Sterbak is a multidisciplinary artist of Czech origin.
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Patrick Kwok-Choon
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
- 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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Édouard Lock
- Occupations
- choreographer
- 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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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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Michèle Audette
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michèle Taïna Audette is a Canadian politician and activist. She has served as president of Femmes autochtones du Québec (Quebec Native Women) from 1998 to 2004 and 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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Gordon O'Connor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon James O'Connor, is a retired Brigadier-General, businessman, and lobbyist, who served as Conservative Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2015.
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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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Daniel Blaikie
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Blaikie is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for Elmwood—Transcona since October 19, 2015. 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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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. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Concordia University and graduate degrees in political science and in Law from the Université de Montréal. He is a former school board commissioner, former president of the Chambly regional school board and the former president of the Fédération des commission scolaires catholiques du Québec. He represented the electoral districts of Saint-Louis from 1985 to 1994 and Westmount–Saint-Louis from 1994 to 2018 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP).
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Cecil Castellucci
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writermusicianscreenwriterfilm director
- 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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Yung Chang
- Occupations
- directorfilm director
- 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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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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Torill Kove
- Occupations
- illustratoranimatorchildren's writerscreenwriterfilm director
- 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 (NFB).
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Louise Archambault
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Louise Archambault is a Canadian film 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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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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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! debuted his solo album Forever Overhead was released on April 19, 2019, on Arts & Crafts.
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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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Peter Schiefke
- Occupations
- politicianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Peter Schiefke 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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Gina Cody
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Gina Parvaneh Cody is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
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Rene Paredes
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Rene Paredes is a professional Canadian football placekicker for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a two-time Grey Cup champion after winning with the Stampeders in 2014 and 2018 and is a four-time CFL All-Star. He also won the John Agro Special Teams Award as the CFL's Most Outstanding Special Teams player in 2013.
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Kyle Thomas
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- 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
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- 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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Paul Hartal
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- poetwriterpainter
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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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David Birnbaum
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- 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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Todd Swift
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- poet
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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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Pietro Amato
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- horn playerjazz musicianmusician
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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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Lee Mellor
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- singer
- Biography
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Lee Mellor, Ph.D. is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, criminologist and alternative country musician distinguished by his intricate lyrics and growly vocal stylings.
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Geof Isherwood
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Geof Isherwood is an American painter, sculptor and comic book illustrator.
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Anissa Khelfaoui
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- fencer
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Anissa Khelfaoui is an Algerian female fencer.
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Mireille Gingras
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- neuroscientistentrepreneurneurobiologist
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Mireille Gingras, Lady 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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Janet Perlman
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Studied in 1974-1976
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- writeranimation directorchildren's writerfilm screenwriterillustrator
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Janet Laurie Perlman is a Canadian animator and children's book author and illustrator whose work includes the short film The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 54th Academy Awards and received a Parents' Choice Award. Her 13 short films have received 60 awards to date. She was married to the late animation producer Derek Lamb. After working with Lamb at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1980s, they formed their own production company, Lamb-Perlman Productions. She is currently a partner in Hulascope Studio, based in Montreal. Perlman has produced animation segments for Sesame Street and NOVA. Working with Lamb, she produced title sequences for the PBS series Mystery!, based on the artwork of Edward Gorey, and was one of the animators for R. O. Blechman's adaptation of The Soldier's Tale for PBS's Great Performances. She has also taught animation at Harvard University, the Rhode Island School of Design and Concordia University. She and Lamb were divorced but remained creative and business partners until his death in 2005.
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Deragh Campbell
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- film actor
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Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—Never Eat Alone, Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), and Point and Line to Plane (2020)—have screened at film festivals internationally. She has also featured in two of Kazik Radwanski's films, How Heavy This Hammer (2015) and Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Russell Copeman
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- politician
- Biography
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Russell Copeman is a Canadian politician. He was a Montreal City Councillor and was the borough mayor for Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace from November 14, 2013 to November 16, 2017. He also sat on the Montreal Executive Committee, and was responsible for housing, urban planning, buildings, real estate transactions and strategies, and the Office of Public Consultation.
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Nadia Myre
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- artist
- Biography
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Nadia Myre is a contemporary visual artist from Quebec and an Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation, who lives and works in Montreal. For over a decade, her multi-disciplinary practice has been inspired by participant involvement as well as recurring themes of identity, language, longing and loss. Of the artist, Canadian Art Magazine writes, "Nadia Myre’s work weaves together complex histories of Aboriginal identity, nationhood, memory and handicraft, using beadwork techniques to craft exquisite and laborious works."
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Charles Sams
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in business administration
- Occupations
- directorIntelligence Specialistdirector of communications
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Charles F. Sams III is an American government official who is the director of the National Park Service, the first Native American to serve in the role. He is also a member of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
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Royce Vavrek
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- librettistfilm director
- Biography
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Royce Vavrek is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-based librettist, playwright, dance scenarist, musical theatre writer and filmmaker known for his collaborations with composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Mikael Karlsson, Ricky Ian Gordon, Paola Prestini and Du Yun, soprano Lauren Worsham, producers Beth Morrison and Lawrence Edelson, and conductors Steven Osgood, Julian Wachner and Alan Pierson.
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Diane Obomsawin
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- comics artistanimatorscreenwriterfilm director
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Diane Obomsawin is a Quebec-based author, illustrator and animated filmmaker, often known by her pseudonym, Obom. Some of her notable works have explored the issue of lesbian first love, including a 2014 graphic novel, published in French as J'aime les filles by L'Oie de Cravan and in English as On Loving Women by Drawn & Quarterly. J'aime les filles was adapted as a 2016 National Film Board of Canada animated short, I Like Girls (J'aime les filles), which received the Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short at the 40th Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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Dina Butti
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Dina Butti is an Egyptian/Canadian TV presenter, content creator and voiceover artist. She is most known as a TV presenter on the United Arab Emirates’ English television channel, Dubai One, where she co-hosted the channel's celebrity program, That's Entertainment, reported for their Expo 2020 Dubai daily live coverage and is currently hosting their evening lifestyle show, DXB Today.
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Vittorio Rossi
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- playwrightscreenwriteractor
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Vittorio Luciano Rossi is a playwright, actor and screenwriter born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in the district of Ville Emard. Graduating from Concordia University in 1985 with a B.F.A. specializing in theatre performance, Rossi has earned the respect of the national theatre community with his award-winning plays. Mr. Rossi stormed the Montréal theatre scene with two consecutive Best New Play Awards at the Quebec Drama Festival in 1986 and 1987 with Little Blood Brother and Backstreets. His plays have been produced in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, New York City, Boston, Syracuse and The Stratford Festival in Ontario.
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Jon Paul Fiorentino
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- poetnovelist
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Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and professor.
