100 Notable alumni of
University of Calgary
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The University of Calgary is 607th in the world, 224th in North America, and 18th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Calgary sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Drew Scott
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- entrepreneuractorreal estate agent
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Andrew Alfred Scott is a Canadian reality television personality, best known as the co-host (along with his identical twin brother Jonathan) of the TV series Property Brothers.
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Stephen Harper
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- politicianpianisteconomist
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Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015.
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Jinder Mahal
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- professional wrestler
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Yuvraj Singh Dhesi is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is performing on the independent circuit under his real name, stylized as Raj Dhesi. He works for various promotions such as Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is one-half of the current AAA World Tag Team Champions (with Satnam Singh) in his first reign, and International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico) (IWA Puerto Rico). He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Jinder Mahal and is a former 1-time WWE Champion, WWE United States Champion, and 2-time WWE 24/7 Champion.
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Pierre Poilievre
- Occupations
- politician
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Pierre Marcel Poilievre PC MP is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Conservative Party and of the Official Opposition since 2022.
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Jonathan Scott
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- interior designertelevision actor
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Jonathan Silver Scott is a Canadian reality television personality, construction contractor, interior designer, illusionist, and television and film producer.
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James Gosling
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- inventorprogrammerwritercomputer scientistblogger
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James Arthur Gosling OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.
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Garrett Camp
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
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Garrett Camp is a Canadian-French businessman, investor, and software engineer. He helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Danielle Smith
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
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Marlaina Danielle Smith ECA MLA is a Canadian politician, former lobbyist, and former columnist and media personality who has been serving as the 19th premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) since October 2022.
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Hayley Wickenheiser
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- ice hockey playersoftball player
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Hayley Wickenheiser OC is a Canadian former ice hockey player, resident physician and assistant general manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs. She was the first woman to play full-time professional men’s hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser was a member of Canada women's national ice hockey team for 23 years, from 1994 until announcing her retirement on January 13, 2017, and is the team's career points leader with 168 goals and 211 assists in 276 games. She represented Canada at the Winter Olympics five times, capturing four gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball, and is a seven-time winner of the world championships. She is tied with teammates Caroline Ouellette and Jayna Hefford for the record for the most gold medals of any Canadian Olympian, and is widely considered to be the greatest female ice hockey player of all time. On February 20, 2014, Wickenheiser was elected to the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission. In 2019, she was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame, in her first year of eligibility. She was also inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2019, and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Naheed Nenshi
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- journalistpolitician
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Naheed Kurban Nenshi is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2024. Nenshi previously served as the 36th mayor of Calgary; first elected in 2010, he served three terms as mayor before deciding not to run for re-election in 2021. In March 2024, Nenshi announced he would run for provincial NDP leader, winning the leadership election held in June.
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Martha Hart
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorresearcher
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Martha Joan Hart is a Canadian philanthropist and researcher who is the widow of professional wrestler Owen Hart. After her husband's death in an accident at Over the Edge, Hart sued the World Wrestling Federation (now, WWE). She later wrote a bestselling book about her husband's life and founded a charity in his name. She has subsequently been involved in several legal cases involving her husband's image and has worked as a philanthropist and researcher.
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Ezra Levant
- Occupations
- columnistlawyerjournalistpolitical activist
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Ezra Isaac Levant is a Canadian media personality, political activist, writer, broadcaster, and former lawyer. Levant is the founder and former publisher of the conservative magazine, The Western Standard. He is also the co-founder, owner, and CEO of the far-right media website Rebel News. Levant has also worked as a columnist for Sun Media, and he hosted a daily program on the Sun News Network from the channel's inception in 2011 until its demise in 2015.
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Paweensuda Drouin
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
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Jennifer Paweensuda Drouin is a Thai model, DJ and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2019 and was a top five finalist at Miss Universe 2019.
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Harvey Locke
- Occupations
- photographerconservationist
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Harvey Locke is a Canadian conservationist, writer, and photographer. He is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife and large landscape conservation. He is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous corridor for wildlife from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Northern Canada. In 2017, Locke was appointed chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force, with the goal of ensuring the new global conservation targets set at the next Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2020 are meaningful for achieving the conservation of nature and halting of biodiversity loss.
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Joseph Sung
- Occupations
- physicianresearcherhepatologistgastroenterologist
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Joseph Sung Jao-yiu SBS JP is a Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist, and the current dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), also serving as the Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) of NTU. Previously, he was the vice-chancellor and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
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Kevin Koe
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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Susanne Craig
- Occupations
- journalist
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Susanne Craig CM is a Canadian investigative journalist and author who works at The New York Times. She gained prominence for her reporting on Donald Trump's finances, revealing his 1995 tax returns during the 2016 presidential election and co-authoring a 2018 investigation into Trump's claims of self-made wealth and financial practices.
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Agam Darshi
- Occupations
- film directoractortelevision actordirectorfilm actor
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Agamdeep Darshi is a British-Canadian actress.
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Theo de Raadt
- Occupations
- engineerprogrammernetwork engineercomputer scientistsoftware engineer
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Theo de Raadt is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.
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Michael Spavor
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Canada - Occupations
- consultantentrepreneur
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Michael Peter Todd Spavor is a Canadian consultant who has worked extensively in North Korea. He is the director and founding member of Paektu Cultural Exchange, an NGO that facilitates sports, cultural, tourism and business exchanges involving North Korea.
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Kent Hehr
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Kent Hehr PC is a Canadian politician from Alberta. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Centre from 2015 to 2019. Hehr was named Minister of Veterans Affairs in the federal Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015, and was shuffled to be Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities in August 2017. Hehr resigned from cabinet on January 25, 2018, after allegations of workplace misconduct surfaced from when he was the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Buffalo.
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Michael Dowse
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Michael Dowse is a Canadian director.
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Brian Jean
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Brian Michael Jean KC ECA MLA is a Canadian politician who has previously served as Alberta's and Minister of Jobs, Economy and Northern Development. On June 9, 2023 Jean was appointed as Alberta's Minister of Energy and Minerals, with Larry Kaumeyer as his Deputy-Minister, the former CEO of Ducks Unlimited. He has served as member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche since March 16, 2022. He was leader of the Opposition and the last leader of the Wildrose Party from 2015 to 2017 before its merger into the United Conservative Party (UCP). Jean was a member of Parliament (MP) with the Conservative Party from 2004 to 2014 before entering provincial politics.
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Riza Santos
- Occupations
- modelactorbeauty pageant contestant
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Riza Raquel Santos is a Canadian former actress, tv host, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is currently the Vice President of Argyle Fox Inc., a technology firm headquartered in Calgary. She achieved the "Canada's Triple Crown": Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and Miss Universe Canada 2013.
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Robert Thirsk
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- astronautphysicianengineer
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Robert "Bob" Brent Thirsk, OC OBC is a Canadian retired engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space (204 days, 18 hours and 29 minutes). He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named to the Order of British Columbia (OBC) in 2012.
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Terrie Hawkes
- Occupations
- screenwriteractorvoice actor
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Terri Hawkes is a Canadian actress and writer, known for playing Kelly Hennenlotter in the horror film, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Adrienne in Beverly Hills 90210, Wendy Masters in General Hospital, and for being the second English dub voice actress of the title character of the Japanese anime Sailor Moon. She is the daughter of politician Jim Hawkes.
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Kara Scott
- Occupations
- Thai boxerpoker playerjournalisttelevision presenter
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Kara Scott /ˈkɛərə/ is a Canadian British TV personality, journalist and poker player.
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Brianne Jenner
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Brianne Alexandra Jenner is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain for the Ottawa Charge of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of Canada women's national ice hockey team.
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Janet Austin
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- politician
- Biography
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Janet Edna Merivale Austin OBC is a Canadian former nonprofit sector executive and public servant who was the 30th lieutenant governor of British Columbia, having served from 2018 to 2025. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III in the province of British Columbia. Prior to her appointment as Lieutenant Governor, she spent 15 years as CEO of YWCA Metro Vancouver.
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Leela Aheer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leela Sharon Aheer ECA is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and re-elected in the 2019 Alberta general election.
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Blake Richards
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- politician
- Biography
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Blake Richards MP is a Canadian politician. He has been a Conservative Member of Parliament since 2008, having been elected to represent the now defunct electoral district (or riding) of Wild Rose in the October 14, 2008 and May 2, 2011 federal elections and subsequently the riding of Banff—Airdrie in federal elections held in 2015, 2019, and 2021.
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Subhasis Chaudhuri
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- electrical engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
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Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian electrical engineer, former director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) and currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of BSE Limited. He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.
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Erin Weir
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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Erin M. K. Weir is a Canadian politician from Saskatchewan. From 2015 until 2019, he was Member of Parliament for the riding of Regina—Lewvan. Weir initially sat as a member of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) but was expelled from the party's caucus on May 3, 2018 after a dispute over a third party investigation that sustained some claims of harassment. No appeal of this investigation was granted. Before entering federal politics, Weir ran in the 2013 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election and was an economist with the Canadian section of the United Steelworkers union.
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Eric Greif
- Years
- 1962-2021 (aged 59)
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerlawyer
- Biography
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Eric Greif was a Canadian-American lawyer, university instructor, and entertainment personality and producer known for a management and record production career within the heavy metal musical genre in the 1980s and early 1990s, and later within the legal profession. He was also known for being the longtime manager and lawyer of metal musician Chuck Schuldiner. Canadian filmmaker Sam Dunn has referred to Greif as a "hugely important figure in the extreme metal scene." He was the nephew of deceased American writer and publisher Martin Greif.
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Anastasia Bucsis
- Occupations
- speed skater
- Biography
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Anastasia Bucsis is a Canadian former speed skater. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the women's 500-metre competition. In addition, she participated in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for women's long track, placing 27th in the 500 metres. She now is a sportscaster and personality for CBC. Bucsis lives in Toronto, and is a passionate advocate for mental health issues, eradicating homophobia in sport, and telling the stories of athletes.
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Marzieh Shah-Daei
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Marzieh Shah-Daei was the Deputy Minister of Petroleum from 2017 to 2019. As an Iranian engineer, she was the former Executive Director of National Petrochemical Company, as well as "Vice Minister of Petroleum on Petrochemical affairs" from 2016 to 2017.
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Gary Botting
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- biographerphilosophernovelisthistorianliterary critic
- Biography
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Gary Norman Arthur Botting is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published books, he remains one of the country's leading authorities on extradition law. He is said to have had "more experience in battling the extradition system than any other Canadian lawyer."
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Shabbir Akhtar
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- philosopher
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Shabbir Akhtar was a British Muslim philosopher, poet, researcher, writer and multilingual scholar. He was on the Faculty of Theology and Religions at the University of Oxford. His interests included political Islam, Quranic exegesis, revival of philosophical discourse in Islam, Islamophobia, extremism, terrorism and Christian-Muslim relations as well as Islamic readings of the New Testament. Shabbir Akhtar was also a Søren Kierkegaard scholar. Akhtar's articles have appeared both in academic journals and in the UK press. Several of his books have been translated into the major Islamic languages.
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Stephen Downes
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Stephen Downes is a Canadian philosopher and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. He has explored and promoted the educational use of computer and online technologies since 1995. He gave the 2004 Buntine Oration and was a presenter at the February 2007 Online Connectivism Conference. In 2008, Downes and George Siemens designed and taught an online, open course reported as a "landmark in the small but growing push toward 'open teaching'" - widely considered the first massive open online course (MOOC).
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Amy Nixon
- Occupations
- lawyercurler
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Amy Lee Nixon is a Canadian retired curler and lawyer from Calgary, Alberta. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2006 Winter Olympic women's curling team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink. Nixon was also the chair of the board of governors of Curling Canada from 2021 to 2022.
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Joe Ceci
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Anthony Ceci ECA MLA is a Canadian, Albertan, politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Buffalo in the 30th Alberta Legislature. He was previously elected in 2015 to represent Calgary-Fort in the 29th Legislature. He is a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. Prior to holding provincial office, Ceci served as an alderman on the Calgary City Council, representing Ward 9 from 1995 to 2010.
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Joshua Whitehead
- Occupations
- essayistacademicnovelistLGBTQ rights activistuniversity teacher
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Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist.
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Kathleen Ganley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Teresa Ganley ECA is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Mountain View in the 30th Alberta Legislature. She was previously elected in 2015 to represent Calgary-Buffalo in the 29th Legislature. She is a member of the New Democratic Party of Alberta. On May 24, 2015 she was sworn in as the Minister of Justice and Minister of Aboriginal Affairs for the province of Alberta. On February 2, 2016 six new members were sworn into Alberta's Cabinet, and Kathleen Ganley retained the role of Minister of Justice and Solicitor General for the province of Alberta becoming one of the first non-conservatives to be appointed since the early 1960s. The department of Aboriginal Relations was renamed to Indigenous Relations, reflecting the preference of Indigenous communities, with Richard Feehan appointed Minister of Indigenous Relations.
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Rob Anders
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert J. Anders is a former Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Calgary West from 1997 until 2015 and was a founding member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Stephanie Kusie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephanie L. Kusie MP is a Canadian politician and former diplomat who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on April 3, 2017. She represents the electoral district of Calgary Midnapore in Alberta as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and serves as Shadow Minister of Treasury Board in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 44th Parliament of Canada.
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Gary Kovacs
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Gary Kovacs is an American technologist and corporate executive. He has been the chief executive officer of Mozilla Corporation, AVG Technologies, and Accela. He has also worked for a number of technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area including Adobe, SAP, IBM, and Zi Corporation.
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Dominick Zator
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Dominick Lukasz Zator is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Ekstraklasa club Korona Kielce and the Canada national team.
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Michelle Stilwell
- Occupations
- politicianathletics competitor
- Biography
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Michelle Stilwell is a Canadian athlete and politician. She represented Canada at four Summer Paralympic Games (2000, 2008, 2012 and 2016), as well as the 2015 Parapan American Games. She competed in wheelchair basketball before becoming a wheelchair racer, and is the only female Paralympic athlete to win gold medals in two separate summer sport events.
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Carlyle Glean
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Carlyle Arnold Glean, GCMG was a Grenadian politician, who served as governor-general of Grenada from 2008 to 2013.
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Riaz Mamdani
- Born in
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Uganda - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Riaz Mamdani is the founder and CEO of Strategic Group, a real estate investment and development company located in Calgary, Canada. In the 1990s, Mamdani gained recognition in Calgary as a financier of various startups before shifting his business efforts in the early 2000s to real estate. In part as a result of Mamdani's success in real estate, he is considered "one of Calgary’s wealthiest men".
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Anita Vandenbeld
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anita M. Vandenbeld MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean for the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election. She was re-elected in the same riding in 2019, and re-elected in 2021. Vandenbeld currently serves as Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of International Development.
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Len Webber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leonard Warren Webber MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Confederation since 2015 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. During the 43rd Canadian Parliament his private member bill An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (organ and tissue donors) (Bill C-210) was adopted to allow Canadians to indicate their intent to sign up as a donor through their annual income tax return. Previously, he was a Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-Foothills from 2004 to 2014, serving cabinet portfolios of Minister of International & Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of Aboriginal Relations.
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Irfan Sabir
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Irfan Sabir ECA MLA is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2015 and 2019 Alberta general elections to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Bhullar-McCall. He is a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. In the 29th Alberta Legislature his party formed a majority government and he was a member of the Executive Council of Alberta as the Minister of Community and Social Services between 2015 and 2019. In the 30th Alberta Legislature, beginning in 2019, his party formed the official opposition to a United Conservative Party majority government. As of June 21, 2024, he serves as the Official Opposition critic for Justice and Public Safety as well as the Deputy House Leader of the Official Opposition.
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Sarah Davachi
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Sarah Davachi is a Canadian composer and performer of electroacoustic and minimalist music. She is a pianist and an organist.
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Kristina Groves
- Occupations
- speed skater
- Biography
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Kristina Nicole Groves is a Canadian retired speed skater. She is Canada's most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: she won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit, and she won the silver medal in the 1500 m event and the bronze medal in the 3000 m event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
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George Brizan
- Years
- 1942-2012 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Ignatius Brizan, CMG, CBE was a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada for four months in 1995. He moved to the top post in February, upon the resignation of Nicholas Brathwaite, and remained in office until Keith Mitchell was inaugurated on 22 June.
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Terry Duguid
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Terry Duguid PC MP is a Canadian politician who is serving as the minister of Sport and minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada since 2024 and member of Parliament (MP) for Winnipeg South since 2015. He has campaigned for elected office at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, and served as a city councillor in Winnipeg from 1989 to 1995.
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Ricardo Miranda
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ricardo Miranda ECA is a Canadian politician and trade unionist who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2015 Alberta general election representing the electoral district of Calgary-Cross.
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Gary Mar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gary Glen Mar ECA KC, is a Canadian businessman and former politician in Alberta. He is currently the President and CEO of the Canada West Foundation.
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Rebecca Northan
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Rebecca Northan is a Canadian actor, improviser, theatre director, and creative artist. She is known for playing the hippie mother Diane Macleod on the CTV & The Comedy Network sitcom Alice, I Think and for her role as Jane in the independent film Adult Adoption. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary, and an alumna of the Loose Moose Theatre Company where she did her improv training with Keith Johnstone.
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Diane Ablonczy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Diane Ablonczy PC is a former Canadian Member of Parliament who served in the House of Commons of Canada. Ablonczy represented Calgary ridings from 1993 to 2015, sitting first with the Reform Party of Canada, then with the Canadian Alliance, and finally with the Conservative Party of Canada. She served as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs) from January 4, 2011 to July 15, 2013. She was previously appointed Minister of State (Seniors) on January 19, 2010. She held the position of Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism) from October 30, 2008, Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism) from August 14, 2007, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from February 2006. Previously, Ablonczy served as Chief Opposition Critic for Citizenship and Immigration, Health, and Human Resources Development.
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Jesse Cockney
- Occupations
- cross-country skier
- Biography
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Jesse Cockney is a Canadian Olympic cross-country skier of Inuvialuit heritage whose father, Angus Cockney, also was a Canadian national team member and national champion. The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia is where Cockney made his Olympic debut. Cockney competed in two events at Sochi, the sprint, and the 50 km mass start, which are the shortest and longest events at the Games. Prior to the Olympics, Cockney had a successful Junior career, winning three gold medals at the 2011 Canada Winter Games (15 km classic, free sprint, and 4x5km relay). He also made his World Cup debut in 2011. While growing up in Canmore, Alberta, Cockney participated in the ski development program. Cockney is a member of the Nordic Hills Ski Club and Canadian Senior Team. He is fluent in both English and French. Actress and activist Marika Sila is his younger sister.
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Rosemarie Falk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosemarie Ashley Falk MP is a Canadian politician from Saskatchewan, who has represented the riding of Battlefords—Lloydminster in the House of Commons of Canada since a by-election victory in 2017. She is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus. Falk currently serves as the Deputy Shadow Minister for Families, Children and Social Development and Status of Women.
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Jill Belland
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision producer
- Biography
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Jill Belland is a Canadian TV personality and business person. She is a co-owner of Bare Belle in Calgary, where she provides dance and exercise training. She was previously a TV host and producer at Citytv Calgary, where she was the "On Location Host" of Breakfast Television.
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Larissa Lai
- Occupations
- academicnovelist
- Biography
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Larissa Lai is an American-born Canadian novelist and literary critic. She is a recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and Lambda Literary Foundation's 2020 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.
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Jay Blankenau
- Occupations
- volleyball player
- Biography
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Jay Michael Blankenau is a Canadian professional volleyball player. A member of the Canada national team, and a participant at the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020).
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Jim Hawkes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frederick James Hawkes was a Canadian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Calgary West from 1979 until 1993.
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Sukh Chungh
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Sukhjivan Singh Chungh is a Canadian professional football offensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played CIS football at University of Calgary and attended Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
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Bracken Kearns
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Bracken Kearns is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Along with an extensive minor league career, he played for the Florida Panthers, San Jose Sharks and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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John Campbell
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California. He works primarily in philosophy of mind.
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Stephanie McLean
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephanie Veronica McLean ECA is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary-Varsity. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary's law school and was sworn in as the Minister of Status of Women and Minister of Service Alberta on February 2, 2016.
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Martine Leavitt
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.
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Kenneth B. Storey
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Kenneth B. Storey FRSC is a Canadian scientist whose work draws from a variety of fields including biochemistry and molecular biology. He is a Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Storey has a world-wide reputation for his research on biochemical adaptation - the molecular mechanisms that allow animals to adapt to and endure severe environmental stresses such as deep cold, oxygen deprivation, and desiccation.
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Elizabeth Hanson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Hanson, also known as Liz Hanson, is a Canadian politician from the Yukon. She was the leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party from 2009 until 2019, and represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2021.
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Linden Gaydosh
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Linden David Gaydosh is a Canadian former professional football defensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He played CIS football with the Calgary Dinos. Gaydosh was drafted first overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2013 CFL draft, but instead chose to sign with the Carolina Panthers.
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Faye HeavyShield
- Occupations
- installation artist
- Biography
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Faye HeavyShield is a Kainai First Nations sculptor and installation artist. She is known for her repetitive use of objects and writing to create large-scale, often minimal, site-specific installations.
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Angie Abdou
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Angela "Angie" Abdou is a Canadian writer of fiction and nonfiction.
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Iya Gavrilova
- Enrolled in the University of Calgary
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Iya Viktorovna Gavrilova is a Russian ice hockey player, currently affiliated with the Calgary section of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association (PWHPA). She was a member of the Russian national team from 2003 to 2016 and represented Russia at the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, 2010, and 2014 and at eleven IIHF Women's World Championships, winning bronze medals at the tournaments in 2013 and 2016. At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, Gavrilova was part of Russia's gold medal-winning team, the first team to defeat Canada in FISU women's ice hockey history.
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Ray Martin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Raymond James Martin is a politician in Alberta, Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Danielle Larivee
- Occupations
- nursepolitician
- Biography
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Danielle Marie Larivee ECA is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake. She defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Pearl Calahasen, who had served the district since 1989 and was the longest serving incumbent. She is a public health nurse. In 2019 Larivee ran as a candidate in the Alberta election for Lesser Slave Lake and lost to Pat Rehn who belonged to the United Conservative Party (UCP).
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Tara Hunt
- Occupations
- bloggerwriter
- Biography
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Tara Hunt is an author, speaker and startup founder. She has been called a "pioneer in online marketing and one of the most respected authorities on online communities".
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Crystal Webster
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Crystal Rumberg, better known as Crystal Webster is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently coaches and is the alternate on Team Kayla Skrlik.
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Peter Mathews
- Occupations
- university teacherepigrapheranthropologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Peter Mathews is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist.
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David W. Atkinson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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David William Atkinson is a Canadian academic and former president of MacEwan University. He is the former president of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and two Ontario universities, Brock University in St. Catharines and Carleton University in Ottawa.
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Mark Arendz
- Occupations
- biathletecross-country skier
- Biography
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Mark Arendz OPEI is a Canadian biathlon and Para-Nordic skier. He was disabled at the age of seven when his arm got caught in the blades of a grain auger. He participated in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Paralympics and won 8 medals in total, including gold in the men's 15km biathlon standing at the 2018 games.
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Matt Walter
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Matthew John Walter is a retired professional Canadian football running back. Walter spent 4 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders, he was most recently a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted 34th overall by the Calgary Stampeders in the 2011 CFL Draft and was originally signed by the team on May 26, 2011. He played CIS football for the Calgary Dinos and played for the Stampeders from 2011 to 2015.
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Joane Cardinal-Schubert
- Occupations
- writerpainterpoet
- Biography
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Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA LL. D was a First Nations artist from Alberta, Canada. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was an activist for Native sovereignty.
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J. Jill Robinson
- Occupations
- editornovelist
- Biography
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Jacqueline Jill Robinson is a Canadian writer and editor. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including Geist, the Antigonish Review, Event, Prairie Fire and the Windsor Review. Her novel, More In Anger, published in 2012, tells the stories of three generations of mothers and daughters who bear the emotional scars of loveless marriages, corrosive anger and misogyny.
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Christopher J. Coates
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Christopher J. Coates CMM MSM CD is a former military officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In July 2020, he replaced Lieutenant-General Michael Rouleau as commander of Canadian Joint Operations Command. From July 2018 until July 2020, he was the deputy commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command succeeding Lieutenant-General Pierre St-Amand.
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Natan Albahari
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Biography
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Natan Albahari is a Serbian politician and activist serving as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 1 August 2022 and a member of the presidency of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG).
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Teresa Woo-Paw
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Teresa Yan-Yi Woo-Paw is a Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Northern Hills as a Progressive Conservative.
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Moira Stilwell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Moira Stilwell is a Canadian politician and physician who served as the member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of Vancouver-Langara from 2009 to 2017. As part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, she served in several cabinet posts under premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark.
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Tony Whitford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony Wilfred James Whitford ONWT was a Canadian politician, who served as the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from 2005 to 2010.
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Reginald Bibby
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianreligious studies scholarsociologist
- Biography
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Reginald Wayne Bibby OC is a Canadian sociologist. He has held the Board of Governors Research Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge since 2001.
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Bob Hawkesworth
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Andrew "Bob" Hawkesworth is a Canadian politician and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Andrew Kooman
- Occupations
- human rights activistplaywrightnovelistdramaturge
- Biography
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Andrew Kooman is an author and playwright from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
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Erica Morningstar
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Erica Rachelle Morningstar is a Canadian swimmer who has competed in international events including the 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Jessica O'Connell
- Occupations
- long-distance runner
- Biography
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Jessica O'Connell is a Canadian athlete competing primarily in long-distance events. She represented her country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing ninth.
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Natalie Panek
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- science communicator
- Biography
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Natalie Panek is a Canadian working in aerospace engineering. She works in the robotics and automation division of the space technology company MDA.
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Tracy Cameron
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Tracy Stuart is a Canadian rower. She began rowing in 2000 at the age of 25 by enrolling in the learn to row program, while attending the University of Calgary. Since then, Tracy has been to the starting line 12 times and brought home 9 medals, including a Bronze in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold in the 2010 World Rowing Championships.
