100 Notable alumni of
Concordia University
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Concordia University is 362nd 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
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actorpodcasterfilm actor
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William Emerson Arnett is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. In television, Arnett played Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and 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
- punditentrepreneurpodcasterfilm directorcomedian
- Biography
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Gavin Miles McInnes is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on Censored.TV, which he founded. He co-founded Vice magazine in 1994 at the age of 24, and relocated to the United States in 2001. In 2016 he founded the Proud Boys, an American far-right organization which was designated a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand after he left the group. McInnes has been described as promoting violence against political opponents, but has claimed that he only has supported political violence in self-defense and that he is not far-right or a supporter of fascism, identifying as "a fiscal conservative and libertarian".
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James Tupper
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- actorfilm actortelevision 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
- television actormodeltelevision personalityactorchef
- 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
- television actoractor
- 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
- judokamixed martial arts fighterprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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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 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 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
- photographerbloggermusicianrecord producermodel
- 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
- pianistsongwritermusiciansinger
- 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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Anna Hopkins
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
- 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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Emily Haines
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistsingermusiciankeyboardist
- 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
- actorfilm actormodel
- 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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Clark Johnson
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorfilm actoractorfilm producer
- 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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Barbara Dunkelman
- Occupations
- actorpodcastertelevision producer
- 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 Nerris in Camp Camp, and is a partial owner of the FCF Wild Aces Indoor Football Team.
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J. C. MacKenzie
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision 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
- children's writerwritercivil engineer
- 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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Milosh
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- singermusiciansongwriter
- 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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Dave Reichert
- Occupations
- police officerpolitician
- Biography
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David George Reichert is an American politician, former law enforcement officer, and former member of the Air Force Reserve who served as the U.S. representative for Washington's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2019. He is a Republican and a 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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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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Peter M. Lenkov
- Occupations
- writerscreenwritertelevision producerfilm producershowrunner
- 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 reboot series Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I., all of which premiered on CBS.
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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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Maziar Bahari
- Occupations
- journalistfilm directorhuman 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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Liane Balaban
- Occupations
- actormodelscreenwriter
- 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
- Occupations
- film directorwriterscreenwriter
- 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 premiering in 2023. Villeneuve previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
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Pascale Bussières
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Pascale Bussières is a French Canadian actress.
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Jonathan Goldstein
- Occupations
- novelistscreenwriterradio 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
- actorfilm actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Mylène Dinh-Robic is a Canadian actress.
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Arsinée Khanjian
- Occupations
- film directorstage actorfilm actoractor
- 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
- film directoractor
- 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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Aivaras Abromavičius
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinvestment bankerpoliticianbankerinternational forum participant
- 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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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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Richard Parry
- Occupations
- pianistsongwriterrecord producer
- 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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Craig Button
- Occupations
- sports commentatorice hockey playersports 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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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 the interim manager of the Canada men's national team since September 20th, 2023. 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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Kim Nguyen
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
- 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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Mario Dumont
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presenter
- 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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Spencer Krug
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- 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
- film actorstage 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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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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René Balcer
- Occupations
- film directorshowrunnerscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer, and showrunner. He has also had success as a photographer and documentary film-maker.
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Lorena Gale
- Occupations
- actortheatrical directorplaywright
- 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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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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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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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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Michelle Latimer
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterpretendian
- 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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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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Nicholas Thorburn
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- 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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Anthony Housefather
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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, a position he held until fall 2023. In 2024, he became Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board.
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Sarah Hoffman
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- 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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Léa Clermont-Dion
- Occupations
- film directorresearcher
- 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
- actortelevision presenterjournalist
- 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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Stephen Surjik
- Occupations
- film directordirector
- Biography
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Stephen Surjik is a film and television director, and producer.
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Occupations
- sculptormultimedia artistpainternew media 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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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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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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Nathalie Petrowski
- Occupations
- opinion journalistnovelistcriticwriterscreenwriter
- 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
- novelistvisual artistwriterphotographer
- 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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Patrick Kwok-Choon
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision 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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Chloé Robichaud
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- 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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Jana Sterbak
- Occupations
- multimedia artistvisual artistphotographerartist
- Biography
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Jana Sterbak is a multidisciplinary artist of Czech origin.
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Wong Yuk-shan
- Occupations
- politicianjustice of the peace
- 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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Sarah Thornton
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- researcherethnographersociologist
- 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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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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Jennifer Hollett
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- 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
- 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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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
- politiciantrade unionist
- 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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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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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 solo album Forever Overhead was released on April 19, 2019, on Arts & Crafts.
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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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Cecil Castellucci
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwritermusicianchildren's writer
- 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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Louise Archambault
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- 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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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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Yung Chang
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- 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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Torill Kove
- Occupations
- children's writerdirectorscreenwriterfilm directoranimator
- 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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Francis Scarpaleggia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Scarpaleggia 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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Rebecca Blaikie
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- politician
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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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Rene Paredes
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- Canadian football player
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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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Nino Ricci
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- novelistwriter
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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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Gina Cody
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- engineer
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Gina Parvaneh Cody is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
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Peter Schiefke
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- environmentalistpolitician
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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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Charles Sams
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in business administration
- Occupations
- director of communicationsIntelligence Specialistdirector
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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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Paul Hartal
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- painterwriterpoet
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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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Kyle Thomas
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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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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David Birnbaum
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- politician
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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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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. 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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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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Mireille Gingras
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- neurobiologistentrepreneurneuroscientist
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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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Lee Mellor
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- singer
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Lee Mellor is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, criminologist and songwriter.
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Pietro Amato
- Born in
- Canada
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- musicianjazz musicianhorn 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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Geof Isherwood
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- sculptorpainter
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Geof Isherwood is an American painter, sculptor and comic book illustrator.
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Nadia Myre
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- artist
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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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Anissa Khelfaoui
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- fencer
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Anissa Khelfaoui is an Algerian female fencer.
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Aisling Chin-Yee
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Studied filmmaking
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- film producerfilm directorfilm screenwriter
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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).
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Dina Butti
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- television presenter
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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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Janet Perlman
- Enrolled in Concordia University
- Studied in 1974-1976
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- writerdirectorchildren's writerschool teacherillustrator
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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.
