100 Notable alumni of
Ryerson University
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Ryerson University is 379th in the world, 155th in North America, and 11th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Ryerson 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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Nina Dobrev
- Occupations
- ballet dancerfilm actoractorexecutive producergymnast
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Nina Kamenova Dobreva, credited professionally as Nina Dobrev, is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2015).
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Mena Massoud
- Occupations
- actorsingertelevision actor
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Mena Mansour Massoud is an Egyptian-Canadian actor known for starring as the title character in the Disney fantasy film Aladdin (2019). He also starred as Jared Malik in the Canadian drama series Open Heart (2015), Tarek Kassar in the Amazon Prime series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018), Ethan Hart in the Hulu series Reprisal (2019), and Prince Thomas in the Netflix original film The Royal Treatment (2022).
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Katherine Ryan
- Occupations
- comedianactortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, actress and singer based in the United Kingdom.
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Eric McCormack
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm director
- Biography
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Eric James McCormack is a Canadian-American actor known for his roles as Will Truman in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Grant MacLaren in Netflix's Travelers, and Dr. Daniel Pierce in the TNT crime drama Perception. Born in Toronto, McCormack started acting by performing in high school plays. He left Ryerson University in 1985 to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in many stage productions.
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Hannah Simone
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Hannah Simone is a Canadian actress, television host, and former VJ and fashion model. She portrayed Cece Parekh on the Fox sitcom New Girl.
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Nia Vardalos
- Occupations
- voice actoractordirectorfilm directortelevision actor
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Antonia Eugenia Vardalos is a Canadian actress and screenwriter. She starred in and wrote the romantic comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, which went on to spawn a media franchise.
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Hilary Labow
- Occupations
- actortelevision presenterinterior designer
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Hilary Elizabeth Farr is a British-Canadian designer, businesswoman, television host and former actress. She is known as the co-host of the HGTV and W Network television series Love It or List It with David Visentin.
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Hawick Lau
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision actor
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Hawick Lau Hoi-wai is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He was named as one of the "Five Fresh Tigers of TVB" and is best known for his performances in the series A Kindred Spirit (1995), Virtues of Harmony (2001) and My Family (2005).
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David James Elliott
- Occupations
- film directortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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David William Smith, known professionally as David James Elliott, is a Canadian actor. He was the star of the series JAG, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr. from 1995 to 2005.
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Gail Kim
- Occupations
- modelfilm actoractorprofessional wrestler
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Gail Kim is a Canadian semi-retired professional wrestler, currently signed to TNA Wrestling, where she serves as a producer and occasional on-screen talent. In Impact Wrestling she was the inaugural and record setting seven-time Knockouts Champion and she also was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Madison Rayne. She is also known for her two stints in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she won the WWE Women's Championship in her first match.
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Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
- Occupations
- modeldisc jockeyactorsinger
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Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is a Canadian actress, musician and television personality. For playing fashion executive and heiress Steffy Forrester Finnegan in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2008–present), she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019, 2021 and 2023. She has additionally starred as Olivia Castle in the horror film Final Destination 5 (2011), and hosted the E! series Party On (2013–2014).
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Raymond Ablack
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actorcomedianactor
- Biography
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Raymond Ablack is a Canadian actor and comedian. He began his career in the early 2000s as a child actor on stage, performing as Young Simba in The Lion King at the Princess of Wales Theatre. He later gained recognition for playing Sav Bhandari in the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2007 to 2011.
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Louise Penny
- Enrolled in Ryerson University
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Applied Arts
- Occupations
- journalistnovelistwriterradio personality
- Biography
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Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Her novels have been published in 23 languages.
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Sarah Carter
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Sarah Sanguin Carter is a Canadian actress and musician. She is known for her recurring role as Alicia Baker in the superhero series Smallville (2004–2005), Madeleine Poe in Shark (2006–2008), and main role as Maggie in the TNT science fiction series Falling Skies (2011–2015).
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Ellen Wong
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortaekwondo athlete
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Ellen Wong is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Knives Chau in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the animated Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Jill "Mouse" Chen in The CW's series The Carrie Diaries, and Jenny Chey in the Netflix series GLOW.
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David Hayter
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actor
- Biography
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David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the film X-Men and co-wrote X2 and Watchmen, and was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 2000 for his work on X-Men. Hayter voiced King Shark on The Flash.
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Jason Jones
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorcomedianfilm producer
- Biography
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Jason Pierre Jones is a Canadian and American actor, comedian and writer. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2005 to 2015. From 2016 to 2019 Jones starred in the TBS comedy series The Detour, which he created with his wife Samantha Bee.
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Brandon Cronenberg
- Occupations
- film directorwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Brandon Cronenberg is a Canadian director and screenwriter. He is the son of renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg and the brother of Caitlin Cronenberg. He is known for his science fiction horror films Antiviral (2012), Possessor (2020) and Infinity Pool (2023). He has won several accolades for his work.
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Vincenzo Natali
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Vincenzo Natali is an American-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, known for writing and directing science fiction and horror films such as Cube, Cypher, Nothing, and Splice.
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Natalie Glebova
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Natalie Glebova is a Canadian beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2005. She had previously been crowned Miss Universe Canada 2005.
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John Saunders
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerjournalist
- Biography
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John Peterson Saunders was a Canadian-American sports journalist. He worked for ESPN and ABC from 1986 until his death in 2016.
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Rebecca Liddiard
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Rebecca Liddiard is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Constable Adelaide Stratton in the 2016 trans-Atlantic mystery series Houdini & Doyle and as morality officer Mary Shaw in Frankie Drake Mysteries.
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Kristin Booth
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Kristin Booth is a Canadian actress, born in Kitchener, Ontario. She graduated with Honours BFA from Ryerson Theatre School at Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1997.
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Debra McGrath
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Debra McGrath is a Canadian actress and comedian.
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Ari Millen
- Occupations
- television actorstage actor
- Biography
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Ari Millen is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his performance as numerous clones in the Space and BBC America science fiction television series Orphan Black (2014–2017), for which he won a Canadian Screen Award in 2016.
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Wendy Mesley
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Wendy Mesley is a Canadian television journalist. She worked for CBC News from 1979 to 2021 in roles including national correspondent and relief. She was the anchor of The National, host of Undercurrents, Disclosure, and Marketplace, and from 2018 to 2020, she hosted the Sunday morning talk show The Weekly with Wendy Mesley.
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Daniel DeSanto
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Daniel DeSanto is a Canadian actor.
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Robert J. Sawyer
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian and American science fiction writer. He has had 24 novels published and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and numerous anthologies. He has won many writing awards, including the best-novel Nebula Award (1995), the best-novel Hugo Award (2003), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006), the Robert A. Heinlein Award (2017), and more Aurora Awards than anyone else in history.
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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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Wendy Walsh
- Enrolled in Ryerson University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistradio personalitylecturerpsychotherapist
- Biography
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Wendy Lee Walsh is a Canadian author, lecturer, radio host and television commentator.
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Isadore Sharp
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Isadore "Issy" Sharp, is a Canadian hotelier and writer. He is founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
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Adam Hemati
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Adam Hemati is an Iranian-Canadian soccer player who is currently a free agent. He signed his first professional contract with Persepolis in the Persian Gulf Pro League where they reached the Asian Champions League Final in 2018.
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Omar Alghabra
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Omar Alghabra is a Saudi-born Syrian-Canadian politician who served as Canada's minister of transport from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, he has represented the riding of Mississauga Centre in the House of Commons since the 2015 election. He was previously the member of Parliament (MP) for Mississauga—Erindale from 2006 to 2008.
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Marco Brambilla
- Occupations
- video artistfilm directorphotographer
- Biography
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Marco Brambilla is an Italian-born Canadian contemporary artist and film director, known for re-contextualizations of popular and found imagery, and use of 3D imaging technologies in public installations and video art.
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Katie Griffin
- Occupations
- actorsingervoice actor
- Biography
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Katie Griffin is a Canadian actress and singer who has appeared on television, films and voiced animations. Her roles include the voices of Sailor Mars in the original English Canadian dub of Sailor Moon, Alex in Totally Spies!, Laugh-a-Lot Bear in Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot and Farmer Shire in Corn & Peg. She currently voices Ma Barker in Go, Dog. Go!.
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Bryn McAuley
- Occupations
- singervoice actor
- Biography
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Bryn McAuley is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing Caillou on the television series of the same name, Anne Shirley on Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series, Gina Lash in Angela Anaconda, Skye Blue in Carl², Becky Lopez in George Shrinks, Harriet in Franklin, Laney Penn in Grojband, Suzi in Camp Lakebottom, Quills in Numb Chucks, Amy and Samey in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, Taylor in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, Mavis Dracula in Hotel Transylvania: The Series, Eleanor in The Day My Butt Went Psycho! and Bea in Top Wing.
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Sue Gardner
- Occupations
- journalistmanagerwriterbusinessperson
- Biography
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Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.
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Tyler Stewart
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Tyler Joseph Stewart is the drummer for the Canadian music group Barenaked Ladies.
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Jay Onrait
- Occupations
- sports commentatortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Jay Michael Onrait is a Canadian television personality and sports anchor who hosts SC with Jay Onrait on TSN. From 2003 to 2021, he was frequently paired with fellow Canadian broadcaster Dan O'Toole.
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Erdem Moralıoğlu
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Erdem Moralıoğlu is a British fashion designer.
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Zanele Muholi
- Occupations
- social activistphotographer
- Biography
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Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human".
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Natalie Lisinska
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Natalie Lisinska is a British-Canadian actress.
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Simina Grigoriu
- Occupations
- electronic musiciandisc jockey
- Biography
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Ana Simina Grigoriu married Paul Kalkbrenner is a Romanian-Canadian DJ and music producer from Toronto specializing in electronic techno music. She has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, since 2008.
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Christie Blatchford
- Occupations
- journalistcolumnist
- Biography
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Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
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Edward Burtynsky
- Occupations
- film directorphotographer
- Biography
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Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of industrialization and its impacts on nature and the human existence. It is most often connected to the philosophical concept of the sublime, a trait established by the grand scale of the work he creates, though they are equally disturbing in the way they reveal the context of rapid industrialization.
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Bob McKenzie
- Occupations
- sports commentatorjournalist
- Biography
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Robert Malcomson McKenzie is a Canadian hockey commentator who has covered hockey since joining TSN in 1986. As a TSN Hockey Insider and TSN's Draft Expert, McKenzie provides analysis for NHL on TSN telecasts, as well as for the IIHF World Junior Championships, NHL Draft, NHL Trade Deadline, Free Agency, and for six Olympic Winter Games.
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Liza Fromer
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Liza Fromer is a former cohost of The Morning Show on the Global Television Network and Breakfast Television at Citytv in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Caitlin Cronenberg
- Occupations
- NFT artistfilm directorphotographer
- Biography
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Caitlin Cronenberg is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker, known for her celebrity portraits and editorials. She is David Cronenberg's daughter and Brandon Cronenberg's sister.
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Hayden
- Occupations
- songwriterrecord producersingerguitarist
- Biography
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Paul Hayden Desser, who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.
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Tanya Huff
- Occupations
- novelistscience fiction writerwriterfantasy author
- Biography
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Tanya Sue Huff is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood Ties.
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Adam Vaughan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adam G. Vaughan is a Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2014 until 2021. Vaughan represented the Toronto area riding of Spadina—Fort York as a member of the Liberal Party. He previously sat on Toronto City Council, representing Ward 20 Trinity—Spadina from 2006 until he resigned in 2014 to run in a federal by-election for Trinity—Spadina.
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Bruce McDonald
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerproducerscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Bruce McDonald is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the loosely-affiliated Toronto New Wave.
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Jamie Campbell
- Occupations
- sports journalist
- Biography
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Jamie Campbell is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet. He is currently the host of Toronto Blue Jays telecasts and previously provided the play-by-play from 2005 to 2009.
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Tanya Kim
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Tanya Kim is a Canadian television personality, best known as the co-host of etalk from 2003 to 2014.
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Emily Andras
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- showrunnerscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Emily Andras is a Canadian television producer and writer. She is known for creating the television series Wynonna Earp and serving as executive producer and showrunner of Lost Girl.
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Linda Ballantyne
- Occupations
- voice actor
- Biography
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Linda Anne Ballantyne is a Canadian voice actress, who is best known for voicing the title role of Serena Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the second half of the original English version of Sailor Moon.
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Jessica Holmes
- Occupations
- screenwriteractor
- Biography
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Jessica Holmes is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003, after starring in her own show, The Holmes Show in 2002. She is married to actor Scott Yaphe.
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Majid Jowhari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Majid Jowhari is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for the electoral district of Richmond Hill in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. He is a member of the Liberal Party. He was the first federal nominee and candidate of Iranian heritage. Jowhari is the first Iranian-born member of Parliament of Iranian heritage. Jowhari is one of the first two Iranian-Canadian members of parliament, with the other being Ali Ehsassi.
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Debra W. Soh
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Enrolled in Ryerson University
- In 2010 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- columnistopinion journalistneuroscientistpsychologistjournalist
- Biography
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Debra W. Soh is a Canadian columnist, author, and former academic sex researcher.
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Joseph Motiki
- Occupations
- television presentervoice actor
- Biography
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Joseph Frederick Motiki is a Canadian television host, actor, voice actor, and performer. He is best known for hosting the TVOntario children's block The TVOKids Crawlspace and the Food Network game show Ice Cold Cash.
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Suhana Meharchand
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Suhana Meharchand is a Canadian retired journalist who was most recently a CBC News Network anchor and host of CBC News Now.
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Andrew Alexander
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Andrew Alexander is a theater and television producer best known for his previous leadership and co-ownership of The Second City, and co-developing and producing the television show SCTV.
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Don Meredith
- Occupations
- pastorpolitician
- Biography
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Donald Meredith is a Canadian Pentecostal minister and former politician. Meredith was appointed to the Senate of Canada on 18 December 2010 as a Conservative. He was expelled from the Conservative caucus on 17 June 2015, however, following allegations that he had groomed a teenager for two years, starting when the girl was 16. He was found guilty of ethics violations by the Senate ethics office in March 2017.
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Tonya Lee Williams
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Tonya Williams is a Canadian actress, producer, and activist. Sometimes credited as Tonya Lee Williams, she is best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American daytime drama The Young and the Restless from 1990 to 2005 and 2007 to 2012. She is the founder and executive director of Reelworld Film Festival.
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Pat Mills
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kevin Patrick Mills is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor, whose feature film debut Guidance was released in 2015.
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George Lagogianes
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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George Lagogianes is a Canadian television personality, best known as a longtime reporter and anchor for CP24.
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Aditya Jha
- Born in
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Nepal - Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Aditya Jha is an Indo-Nepalese Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist. A globetrotter, his business portfolio consists of several startups and company turnarounds with interests in Canada, Nepal, Thailand and India. He also runs several philanthropic initiatives through his Private Charitable Foundation, promoting education and nurturing entrepreneurship to increase opportunities for the less fortunate. Jha takes special interest in nurturing prosperity and financial independence amongst Canadian First Nations (aboriginal) communities and individuals through education scholarships at top Canadian universities and a project (Project Beyshick) that nurtures entrepreneurship. Jha is 2012 inductee to the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian award.
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Sara Singh
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sara Singh is a Canadian politician. She was one of the two Deputy Leaders of the Ontario New Democratic Party, alongside John Vanthof, and also Opposition Critic for Attorney General from 2018 until 2022. Singh was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election at the age of 33. She represented the riding of Brampton Centre as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party until her defeat in the 2022 Ontario general election.
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Robyn Doolittle
- Occupations
- journalistwriterbiographer
- Biography
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Robyn Doolittle is a Canadian investigative reporter for The Globe and Mail.
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Valerie Pringle
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Valerie Pringle is a Canadian television host and journalist, hosting the Canadian edition of Antiques Roadshow on CBC since 2006. Pringle was born in Windsor, Ontario.
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Zarqa Nawaz
- Occupations
- journalistfilm directorscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Zarqa Nawaz is a Canadian creator and producer for film and television, a published author, public speaker, journalist, and former broadcaster.
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Stephen Dunn
- Occupations
- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Stephen Dunn is a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2015 with Closet Monster, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Keith Pelley
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Keith W. Pelley is a sports executive who is the president of the PGA European Tour. He has been the CEO of Rogers Media, team president of the Toronto Argonauts and the president of The Sports Network (TSN).
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Monita Rajpal
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Monita Rajpal is a Canadian journalist. She is a former news presenter for Citytv and CNN International.
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Carol Anne Meehan
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- council memberjournalist
- Biography
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Carol Anne Meehan is an Ottawa City Councillor and former news anchor at CJOH.
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Terry O'Reilly
- Occupations
- broadcaster
- Biography
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Terry O'Reilly is a Canadian broadcast producer and personality, best known as host of the CBC Radio One series O'Reilly on Advertising, The Age of Persuasion, and most recently Under the Influence - which alone has received nearly 30 million podcast downloads. These programs examine the cultural and sociological impact of advertising and marketing on modern life.
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Josie Dye
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Joscelyne "Josie" Dye is a Canadian radio and television personality, currently an afternoon host on CHUM-FM in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to joining the station, she was a personality on CFNY-FM (102.1 The Edge), and later the morning host on CIND-FM (Indie88), in the same market, and worked in television at Corus Entertainment for both W and CMT Canada.
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Tony Parsons
- Occupations
- news presenter
- Biography
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Tony Parsons is a Canadian broadcaster whose career has spanned more than 50 years, and he has anchored the second most-watched local evening Television newscast in North America, the News Hour on Global BC in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was the co-anchor of CBC News: Vancouver on CBUT-DT with Gloria Macarenko, and the 10:00 pm (22:00 military) newscast on CHEK-DT.
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Carolyn Jarvis
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Carolyn Michelle Jarvis is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief investigative correspondent for Global News. Jarvis was born in North York, Ontario and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia. She earned a degree in music, but established a career in investigative journalism and as a news anchor.
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Heather Mallick
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Heather Mallick is a Canadian columnist, author and lecturer. She has been a staff columnist for the Toronto Star since 2010, writing a news column on Saturday and on the opinion page on Monday and Wednesday. She writes about feminism, news and politics. She has previously written for the Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, and the Financial Post.
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Steven Hilliard Stern
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Steven Hilliard Stern was a Canadian television and documentary director, producer and writer.
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Chris Turner
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Chris Turner is a Canadian journalist and author.
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Kevin Yarde
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Yarde is a Canadian politician and former weather presenter who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election for the riding of Brampton North. Initially elected as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he eventually left the party to sit as an independent.
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Waubgeshig Rice
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario, in Canada. Rice has been recognized for his work throughout Canada, including an appearance at Wordfest's 2018 Indigenous Voices Showcase in Calgary.
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Harinder Malhi
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harinder Kaur Malhi is a former Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2014 to 2018 who represented the riding of Brampton—Springdale, and was a member of the Ontario provincial cabinet in the government of Kathleen Wynne.
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Gemma Files
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
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Amanda Joy
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Amanda Joy is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, comedian, satirist, and producer. She is best known for co-creating and starring in the Omni Television original series Second Jen.
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Bob Barlen
- Occupations
- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Robert George Barlen is a Canadian screenwriter and producer. He is best known for having co-written The Weinstein Company's animated film Escape from Planet Earth (2013), The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017), and Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), all are in collaboration with his business partner Cal Brunker, who served as the director for these films.
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Camila Gonzalez
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Camila Gonzalez is a Colombian-Canadian television personality, producer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss International Canada 2018 and represented her country at Miss International 2018. known for hosting the Serie A Halftime Show on TLN and as an entertainment and community news reporter on Univision Canada.
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D. W. Waterson
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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D. W. Waterson, is a Canadian DJ, drummer, writer, director, and web series creator. They are known for their work as a performer and for creating, writing, and directing the award-winning web series That's My DJ. Their feature-length directorial film debut, Backspot, is forthcoming.
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Peter Mettler
- Occupations
- cinematographerfilm directorscreenwriterphotographer
- Biography
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Peter Mettler is a Swiss-Canadian film director and cinematographer. He is best known for his unique, intuitive approach to documentary, evinced by such films as Picture of Light (1994), Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002), and The End of Time (2012). "His peripatetic lens is ever gravitating toward outsiders in search of ecstatic states", writes José Teodoro in Brick, "strange spectacles that defy straightforward documentation, and sacred places that promise some metaphysical deliverance. There are precedents for his methodologies—the films of Chris Marker and Werner Herzog come to mind—but Mettler’s gifts as an open and unobtrusive interviewer and his capacity to discover shared sensibilities between people of vastly diverse cultures and creeds feels singular."
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Julia Belluz
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Julia Belluz is a Canadian journalist who specializes in health and science reporting. She is the senior health correspondent for American news website Vox, as of August 2020. Belluz is known for her reporting on various public health issues, including the anti-vaccine movement, the COVID-19 pandemic, and medical pseudoscience. Her Maclean's blog, "Science-ish" and her "Show Me the Evidence" series on Vox both do deep dives into the science behind common health claims. Belluz has also reported on celebrities who give unsubstantiated health advice, such as Dr. Oz, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Alex Jones.
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Gary Carr
- Occupations
- politicianice hockey player
- Biography
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Gary Carr is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006. Gary Carr is currently the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Halton.
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Mike Filey
- Years
- 1941-2022 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Mike Filey was a Canadian historian, radio host, journalist and author. He was awarded the Jean Hibbert Memorial Award in 2009 for promoting the city of Toronto and its history.
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Nyla Innuksuk
- Born in
- Canada
- Enrolled in Ryerson University
- In 2009 studied filmmaking
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Nyla Innuksuk is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, and virtual reality content creator. She is the CEO of Mixtape VR.
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Yuri Dojc
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Yuri Dojc is a Slovak-Canadian fine arts photographer. Dojc currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with work internationally exhibited in countries such as Brazil, Slovakia, Rwanda as well as across Canada.
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John L'Ecuyer
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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John L'Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director.
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Cathy Crowe
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Cathy Crowe, is a Canadian "street nurse", educator, author, social justice activist and filmmaker, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. She is a frequent commentator on issues related to health, homelessness and affordable housing. She is currently a visiting practitioner at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Liz Marshall
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Liz Marshall is a Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto. Since the 1990s, she has directed and produced independent projects and been part of film and television teams, creating broadcast, theatrical, campaign and cross-platform documentaries shot around the world. Marshall's feature length documentaries largely focus on social justice and environmental themes through strong characters. She is known for The Ghosts in Our Machine and for Water on the Table, for which she also produced impact and engagement campaigns, and attended many global events as a public speaker. Water on the Table features water rights activist, author and public figure Maude Barlow. The Ghosts in Our Machine features animal rights activist, photojournalist and author Jo-Anne McArthur.
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Christin Carmichael Greb
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christin Carmichael Greb is a Canadian realtor and former politician who represented Ward 16 Eglinton—Lawrence on Toronto City Council from 2014 to 2018.
