100 Notable alumni of
University of Manitoba
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The University of Manitoba is 453rd in the world, 181st in North America, and 14th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Manitoba sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marshall McLuhan
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriterrhetoricianliterary critic
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as the "father of media studies".
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Erving Goffman
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- non-fiction writeranthropologistsociologist
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Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
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Louis Slotin
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied in 1927
- Occupations
- physicistnuclear physicistnon-fiction writerchemist
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Louis Alexander Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's College London in 1936. Afterwards, he joined the University of Chicago as a research associate to help design a cyclotron.
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Loreena McKennitt
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- DJ producersinger-songwriterpianistsingercomposer
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Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 14 million records worldwide.
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Monty Hall
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- television produceractortelevision presenterjournalistgame show host
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Monty Hall OC, OM was a Canadian-American radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., this time in game shows. Starting in 1963, he was best known as the game show host and producer of Let's Make a Deal. He had a conundrum with game theory and psychology aspects named after him: the Monty Hall problem. Behind the scenes, Hall also carried on an active life of philanthropy.
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Burton Cummings
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- songwritermusiciansinger-songwriterkeyboardistsinger
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Burton Lorne Cummings is a Canadian musician. He is best known for leading The Guess Who during that band's most successful period from 1965 to 1975, and for a lengthy solo career.
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Don Callis
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- professional wrestler
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Donald Callis is a Canadian professional wrestling manager, color commentator, actor, and former professional wrestler and business executive. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he works as the on-screen manager and leader of The Don Callis Family (Will Ospreay, Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher and Powerhouse Hobbs); as well as working as a backstage consultant for the company.
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Rosemary
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- professional wrestleractor
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Holly Letkeman better known by the ring name Rosemary is a Canadian professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Courtney Rush, where she is a member of Decay and The Death Dollz. She is currently a record four-time TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion and a former TNA Knockouts Champion. She has worked for promotions such as BSE Pro, Border City Wrestling (BCW), Maximum Pro Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Smash, Steel City Pro Wrestling, and Shimmer Women Athletes. She is also a former Shimmer Tag Team Champion with Sara Del Rey.
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Jennifer Jones
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- curlerlawyer
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Jennifer Judith Jones OM is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won a second world championship in 2018. Jones represented Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
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- writerlawyer
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Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction. The majority of his novels take place in fictional settings that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid. Kay has expressed a preference to avoid genre categorization of these works as historical fantasy. As of 2022, Kay has published 15 novels and a book of poetry. As of 2018, his fiction has been translated into at least 22 languages. Kay is also a qualified lawyer in Canada.
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Kaitlyn Lawes
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- curler
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Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to go through the Olympics undefeated and the first Manitoba based curling team to win at the Olympics. Lawes curled with John Morris in the mixed doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won gold. This win made her and Morris the first Canadian curlers to win two Olympic gold medals, and Lawes was the first to win gold in two consecutive Olympics.
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Jim Peebles
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- physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
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Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.
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Miriam Toews
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied film studies
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Miriam Toews OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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Wab Kinew
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- children's writer
- Biography
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Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew MLA is a Canadian politician who has served as the 25th premier of Manitoba since October 18, 2023. Kinew has served as the leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) since September 16, 2017 and served as Leader of the Opposition prior to the NDP's election victory in the 2023 Manitoba general election. He represents Fort Rouge in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
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Rosemary Barton
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- journalist
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Rosemary Barton is a Canadian political journalist, currently serving as the chief political correspondent for CBC. In this role, she anchors her own Sunday morning news show, Rosemary Barton Live, hosted the "At Issue" segment on The National, and leads special coverage for the network including during elections, breaking news and national emergencies.
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S. I. Hayakawa
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- politicianuniversity teacherpsychologistlinguistanthropologist
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
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Leonard Peikoff
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- writerradio personalityphilosopherteacher
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Leonard Sylvan Peikoff is a Canadian American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. He co-founded the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in 1985 and is the author of several books on philosophy.
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Niki Ashton
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- politician
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Niki Christina Ashton is a Canadian politician. She is the New Democratic Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Churchill—Keewatinook Aski in Manitoba, Canada. She was first elected in the 2008 federal election. Ashton announced her intention to run for the leadership of the federal NDP on March 7, 2017. She placed third in the October 1, 2017 election.
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Amanda Lang
- Occupations
- architectjournalist
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Amanda Lang is a Canadian business journalist, currently employed by BNN Bloomberg. Previously, she was the host of Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada. Lang was formerly senior business correspondent for CBC News, where she anchored The Exchange with Amanda Lang daily on CBC News Network. Prior to her work with CBC, she worked as a print journalist for Canadian national newspapers and was an anchor for CNNfn and BNN.
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Chelsea Carey
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Chelsea Danielle Carey is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip.
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Judith Evelyn
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Judith Evelyn was an American-born Canadian-reared stage and film actress who appeared in around 50 films and television series.
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Harry Seidler
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Harry Seidler was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.
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Michael Persinger
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- university teacherneuroscientistpsychologistneurologistufologist
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Michael A. Persinger was an American-Canadian professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he had held from 1971 until his death in 2018. His most well-known hypotheses include the temporal lobes of the human brain as the central correlate for mystical experiences, subtle changes in geomagnetic activity as mediators of parapsychological phenomena, the tectonic strain within the Earth's crust as the source of luminous phenomena attributed to unidentified aerial objects, and the importance of specific quantifications for energy (10 Joules), photon flux density (picoWatt per meter squared), and small shifts in magnetic field intensities (picoTesla to nanoTesla range) for integrating cellular activity as well as human thought with universal phenomena.
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Andrew Coyne
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- bloggereditorcolumnist
- Biography
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James Andrew Coyne is a Canadian columnist with The Globe and Mail and a member of the At Issue panel on CBC's The National. Previously, he has been national editor for Maclean's and a columnist with National Post.
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Jim Carr
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- writerpoliticianeditorbusinessperson
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James Gordon Carr was a Canadian politician, cabinet minister, journalist, and professional oboist. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre from 2015 until his death on December 12, 2022. Carr died days after his Private Members Bill, Bill C-235, An Act respecting the building of a green economy in the Prairies, passed the House and went to the Senate. He last served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, until his resignation on September 29, 2022.
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Jamaluddin Jarjis
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- diplomatpoliticianengineer
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Jamaluddin bin Mohd Jarjis was a Malaysian politician, diplomat and Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. He served as the Chairman of the 1 Malaysia Peoples' Housing (PR1MA) and Malaysian special envoy to the United States.
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Michelle Rempel Garner
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Michelle Rempel Garner is a Canadian politician who sits in the House of Commons as the member of Parliament (MP) for the Alberta riding of Calgary Nose Hill. A member of the Conservative Party, she was initially elected to represent Calgary Centre-North in the 2011 federal election and served as a minister during Stephen Harper's premiership.
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Bakht Singh
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- preacher
- Biography
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Bakht Singh Chabra also known as Brother Bakht Singh was a Christian evangelist in India and other parts of South Asia. He is often regarded as one of the most well-known Bible teachers and preachers and pioneers of the Indian Church movement and Gospel contextualization. According to Indian traditions, he is also known as 'Elijah of 21st Century' in Christendom. According to his autobiography, Bakht Singh became a Christian when he was an engineering student in Canada in 1929, even though previously he had torn up the Bible and was strongly opposed to Christianity. He was India's foremost evangelist, preacher and indigenous church planter who founded churches and established Hebron Ministries. He began a worldwide indigenous church-planting movement in India that grew to more than 10,000 local churches. Bakht Singh died on 17 September 2000, in Hyderabad, India.
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Murray Sinclair
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Calvin Murray Sinclair is a former member of the Canadian Senate and First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015. He previously served as a judge in Manitoba from 1988 to 2009, being the first Indigenous judge appointed in the province. Sinclair was appointed to the Senate of Canada on April 2, 2016. In November 2020, he announced his retirement from the Senate effective January 31, 2021.
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Albert Chan
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- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Albert Chan Wai-yip 陳偉業, also known by his nickname "Big Piece", is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories West constituency. He has served as a legislator from 1991 to 2016 except for the periods 1997–2000 and Jan–May 2010. Chan, formerly a social worker, was a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council.
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Humayun Akhtar Khan
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- politicianactuaryinternational forum participant
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Humayun Akhtar Khan is a Pakistani politician, business tycoon and actuary. He has been elected as a member of the National Assembly four consecutive times between 1990–2007, having served as Federal Minister for Trade and Commerce from 2002–2007 and as Chairman Board of Investment from 1997–1999.
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Edward Schreyer
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Edward Richard Schreyer is a Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 22nd since Canadian Confederation.
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Bruce Flatt
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- financierbusiness executiveinternational forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Bruce Flatt is a Canadian businessman and the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management. He joined Brookfield in 1990 and became CEO in 2002. He has been referred to as "Canada's Warren Buffett" due to his "value" investment style, extended tenure as CEO, and large investment in Brookfield. In 2022, he was ranked #622 on Forbes' Billionaires list with a net worth of US$4.5 billion.
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Elijah Harper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elijah Harper was a Canadian Oji-Cree politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (MLA) from 1981 to 1992 and a member of Parliament (MP) from 1993 to 1997. Harper was elected chief of the Red Sucker Lake Indian Band in 1978, serving for four years and worked as a policy analyst prior to entering politics. He was a key factor in the rejection of the Meech Lake Accord, a proposed amendment of the Canadian constitution.
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Ryan Fry
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Ryan Bennett Fry is a retired Canadian curler currently living in Pickering, Ontario. He most recently played third on the Mike McEwen team and coached the Rachel Homan team. He currently coaches the Joël Retornaz rink. He previously played third for Team Brad Jacobs, and the team represented Canada and won the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The team also won the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. Fry won a silver medal at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship.
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Desiree Scott
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Desiree Rose Marie Scott is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for American NWSL club Kansas City Current and the Canada women's national team. Nicknamed "the destroyer", she won gold at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which was her third Olympic medal following bronze medals in 2012 in London and in 2016 in Rio.
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Phil Fontaine
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Larry Phillip Fontaine, is an Indigenous Canadian leader and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He best known for his central role in raising public awareness of the Canadian Indian residential school system and pushing to secure Federal and Papal apologies in 2008 and 2022 respectively. He also helped secure a repudiation of Discovery doctrine from Pope Francis on March 30, 2023.
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David Kilgour
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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David William Kilgour was a Canadian human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician. He was also a Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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Charles Bouchard
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Joseph Jacques Charles "Charlie" Bouchard is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force general. He has served as Commander of 1 Canadian Air Division / Canadian NORAD Region, the Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Deputy Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. On 25 March 2011, Bouchard was named Commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.
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Greg Selinger
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Gregory Francis Selinger is a former Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Manitoba from 2009 until 2016, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of his immediate predecessor, Gary Doer. Selinger was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Boniface from 1999 until his resignation in early 2018. His party was defeated by Brian Pallister and the Progressive Conservatives in the 2016 Manitoba general election.
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Nahlah Ayed
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Nahlah Ayed is a Canadian journalist, who is currently the host of the academic documentary program Ideas on CBC Radio One and a reporter with CBC News. She was previously a foreign correspondent with the network and has also worked as a parliamentary correspondent under The Canadian Press. Her reporting on contemporary Middle Eastern politics has garnered multiple awards, both domestic and international.
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Leo Panitch
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- economistuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Leo Victor Panitch was a distinguished research professor of political science and a Canada Research Chair in comparative political economy at York University.
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W. G. Unruh
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- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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William George Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976.
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Yuliya Lyovochkina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yuliya Volodymyrivna Lyovochkina is a Ukrainian politician who was a People's Deputy, having served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2007 to 2022. Formerly a member of the Party of Regions, Opposition Bloc, and Opposition Platform — For Life, she is a member of Platform for Life and Peace.
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Vic Toews
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Victor Toews is a Canadian politician and jurist. Toews is a judge of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Frances Gertrude McGill
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- pathologistcriminologist
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Frances Gertrude McGill was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist. Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and public fame, McGill influenced the development of forensic pathology in Canadian police work and was internationally noted for her expertise in the subject.
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Yvonne Brill
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- In 1945 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- inventorengineertechnicianchemist
- Biography
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Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps today’s satellites in orbit, and holds a patent for its invention. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.
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Selena Njegovan
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Selena Njegovan is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays third on Team Kaitlyn Lawes.
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David Matas
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyer
- Biography
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David Matas is the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has maintained a private practice in refugee, immigration, and human rights law since 1979, and has published various books and manuscripts.
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Sam Katz
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Samuel Michael Katz is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the 42nd mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 2004 to 2014. He is the owner of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and a member of the Order of Manitoba. He was the president of the short-lived National Basketball League.
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Janice Filmon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janice Clare Filmon is a Canadian former social worker who served as the 25th lieutenant governor of Manitoba from 2015 to 2022. Her appointment became effective June 19, 2015. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III of Canada in the Province of Manitoba.
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Marcel Dzama
- Occupations
- painterfilm directorprintmakersculptorgraphic designer
- Biography
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Marcel Dzama is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his ink and watercolor drawings.
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Job Getcha
- Occupations
- theologianEastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Job of Pisidia is an Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who is the Permanent Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches and the Dean of the Institute for Orthodox Theology Higher Studies at Chambésy, Switzerland. He was the Archbishop of Telmessos and was elected on July 22, 2022, as the new metropolitan of Pisidia
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Kelvin Goertzen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kelvin Goertzen is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd premier of Manitoba from September to November, 2021. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Steinbach, first elected in the 2003 provincial election, and was re-elected in 2007, 2011, 2016, 2019 and most recently in 2023. Goertzen served as interim leader of the PC party, from September 1, 2021 to October 30, 2021. He was sworn as premier on September 1, 2021. Goertzen was succeeded as premier on the afternoon of November 2, 2021, by Heather Stefanson who won the PC leadership election on October 30. Goertzen, upon his swearing-in, selected Rochelle Squires as his deputy premier. Goertzen resumed his role as Deputy Premier of Manitoba on November 3, 2021. His final posts in the Stefanson Government were Government House Leader, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Minister responsible for Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI). He currently serves as the Deputy Leader of the PC Party.
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George Ayittey
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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George B. N. Ayittey was a Ghanaian economist and author. He was president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington, D.C., a professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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Claude Castonguay
- Occupations
- actuarypolitician
- Biography
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Claude Castonguay, was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.
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Rana Bokhari
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rana Bokhari is a politician in Manitoba, Canada who was the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 2013 until 2016.
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Dan Vandal
- Occupations
- boxerpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Vandal is a Métis Canadian politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He represented St. Boniface on the Winnipeg City Council from 1995 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2014, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Winnipeg in 2004, coming in second to Sam Katz. He briefly served as acting mayor of Winnipeg following Glen Murray's resignation. On October 19, 2015, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface—Saint Vital in the House of Commons of Canada. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and as of November 20, 2019 serves as the Federal Minister of Northern Affairs in Justin Trudeau's cabinet. On October 26, 2021, he was also named Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister responsible for the Prairies Economic Development Agency of Canada.
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Ovide Mercredi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ovide William Mercredi is a Canadian politician. He is Cree and a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He is also the former president of the Manitoba New Democratic Party.
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Kirsten Hillman
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Kirsten Hillman is a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who was appointed as Canadian ambassador to the United States on March 26, 2020. She is the first woman to serve in this role. In 2019, she had been appointed as acting ambassador, taking over from David MacNaughton. Prior to this, she served as deputy ambassador at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.
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Riaz Mamdani
- 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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Joe Fafard
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Joseph Fafard was a Canadian sculptor.
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Israel Nathan Herstein
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Israel Nathan Herstein was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951. He worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory, with over 100 research papers and over a dozen books.
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Dougald Lamont
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dougald Lamont is a Canadian politician, who was leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 2017 to 2023. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, representing the constituency of St. Boniface from July 2018 to October 2023.
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Philip S. Lee
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Philip Siu Lun Lee was the 24th lieutenant governor of Manitoba. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999 and received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.
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El Jones
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- writerteacherpoetactivistjournalist
- Biography
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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
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Daniel Abraham Yanofsky
- Occupations
- chess playerlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Abraham Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth.
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Dufferin Roblin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dufferin "Duff" Roblin PC CC OM was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In the government of Brian Mulroney, he served as government leader in the Senate. He was the grandson of Sir Rodmond Roblin, who also served as Manitoba Premier. His ancestor John Roblin served in the Upper Canada assembly.
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Mitchell Sharp
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Mitchell William Sharp was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He did, however, serve in both private and public sectors during his long career.
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James Coyne
- Occupations
- bankerlawyereconomist
- Biography
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James Elliott Coyne, was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the "Coyne Affair" (or sometimes the "Coyne Crisis"), which led to his resignation and, eventually, to greater central-bank independence in Canada.
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Cameron Friesen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cameron Scott Friesen, is a Canadian politician and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Morden-Winkler. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he was first elected in the 2011 provincial election, and re-elected in 2016 and 2019.
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Anita Neville
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anita Ruth Neville is a Canadian politician from Manitoba, who has served as the province's 26th lieutenant governor since 2022. She was also a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada, first being elected in the general election of 2000. She was re-elected in 2004, 2006, and 2008. After serving for more than ten years, she lost her seat in the election of 2011.
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Venla Hovi
- Occupations
- ice hockey coachice hockey player
- Biography
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Venla Hovi is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired ice hockey forward. She is an assistant coach for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program, and was head coach of the Metropolitan Riveters in the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) during the 2022–23 PHF season.
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Denni Neufeld
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Dennison "Denni" Neufeld is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Jagrup Brar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jagrup Brar is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia, representing the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge from 2004 to 2009, then Surrey-Fleetwood from 2009 to 2013 and since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he has served as the province's minister of State for Trade since 2022.
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Joy Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joy Ann Smith is a Canadian politician. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba between 1999 and 2003, and was in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2015.
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Elizabeth Carriere
- Occupations
- diplomatgovernorcivil servant
- Biography
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Elizabeth Anne Carriere is a former British civil servant working in international development. From 2015 to 2018, she served as Governor of Montserrat.
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Brian Talboys
- Occupations
- farmerdiplomatpolitician
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Sir Brian Edward Talboys was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.
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Winston Dookeran
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician and economist as well as international public official. Dookeran is the current Secretary-General of EUCLID, an intergovernmental institution of higher learning. He previously served as Political Leader of the Congress of the People, central bank governor, minister of finance, and minister of foreign affairs.
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Frank Pickersgill
- Occupations
- SOE agentspy
- Biography
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Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill was a Canadian Special Operations Executive agent.
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Patrick Lau
- Enrolled in the University of Manitoba
- 1964-1969 graduated with Bachelor of Architecture in architecture
- Occupations
- politicianjustice of the peacearchitect
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Patrick Lau Sau-shing is a Hong Kong architect, legislative councillor, educator and civil servant. He had been a representative on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as a member for the Architectural, Surveying and Planning Functional Constituency, as well as a member of the Professional Forum party, between 2004 and 2012.
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Murray Murdoch
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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John Murray Murdoch was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. He played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937, never missing a game in his career. With the Rangers Murdoch won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1928 and in 1933. After his playing career he coached Yale University from 1938 to 1965.
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Ray Henault
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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General Raymond Roland Joseph Henault, CM, CMM, MSC, CD is a retired Canadian Air Force officer. He was the Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from June 28, 2001 to June 17, 2005 and then Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2005 until 2008, when he retired.
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Craig Baines
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Vice-Admiral Craig Alan Baines is a retired senior Royal Canadian Navy officer who served as Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy from 2021 to 2022.
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Bob Dyce
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Bob Dyce is the head coach and special teams coordinator for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was formerly the interim head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He is a Grey Cup champion after winning as an assistant coach with the Roughriders in 2013 and with the Redblacks in 2016. He attended the University of Manitoba where he played wide receiver with the Manitoba Bisons.
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Jack Pickersgill
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonwriter
- Biography
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John Whitney Pickersgill, was a Canadian civil servant and politician. He was born in Ontario, but was raised in Manitoba. He was Clerk of the Privy Council in the early 1950s. He was first elected to federal parliament in 1953, representing a Newfoundland electoral district and serving in Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's cabinet. In the mid-1960s, he served again in cabinet, this time under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pickersgill resigned from Parliament in 1967 to become the president of the Canadian Transport Commission. He was awarded the highest level of the Order of Canada in 1970. He wrote several books on Canadian history. He died in 1997 in Ottawa.
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Anthony Coombs
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Anthony Coombs is a professional Canadian football wide receiver who is a free agent. He most recently played for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football with the Manitoba Bisons.
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Wayne Stetski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wayne L. Stetski is a Canadian politician and former provincial park Regional Manager. He served as the Member of Parliament for Kootenay—Columbia in the 42nd Canadian Parliament. He was elected to that position in the 2015 Canadian federal election as a member of the New Democratic Party. During that parliament he sponsored two private member bills: one to make the Friday before Thanksgiving Day be known as "National Local Food Day" and another to add various lakes and rivers to Navigable Waters Protection Act. Stetski acted as the NDP Critic for National Parks for the duration of the 42nd Canadian Parliament. He was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
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Doug Eyolfson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Doug Eyolfson is a Canadian physician and was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley. He was elected in the 2015 federal election and was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was a member of the Standing Committee on Health, the Standing Committee on Veteran Affairs and the Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada. He was also the chair of the Manitoba Liberal Caucus.
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James Beddome
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Robert Beddome is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was the former leader of the Green Party of Manitoba from November 2014 to March 2023. He has run in several elections for the provincial party, and was also the Green Party of Canada candidate in Winnipeg South Centre for the 2019 federal election. He works as lawyer in Manitoba.
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John Dick
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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John Edgar Dick is Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Dick is credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in certain types of human leukemia. His revolutionary findings highlighted the importance of understanding that not all cancer cells are the same and thus spawned a new direction in cancer research. Dick is also known for his demonstration of a blood stem cell's ability to replenish the blood system of a mouse, his development of a technique to enable an immune-deficient mouse to carry and produce human blood, and his creation of the world's first mouse with human leukemia.
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Kienan LaFrance
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Kienan LaFrance is a professional Canadian football running back for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He made his professional debut for the Ottawa Redblacks, where he won the 104th Grey Cup in 2016, and has also been a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Peter Allen
- Occupations
- film score composercomposer
- Biography
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Peter Allen is a Canadian composer, organist, and keyboard player. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions encompass a broad repertoire from film scores and commercial jingles to sacred music and avant-garde electroacoustic music. He has composed numerous works for CBC Radio and CBC Television.
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Robert Houle
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Robert Houle is a Saulteaux First Nations Canadian artist, curator, critic, and educator. Houle has had an active curatorial and artistic practice since the mid-1970s. He played an important role in bridging the gap between contemporary First Nations artists and the broader Canadian art scene through his writing and involvement in early important high-profile exhibitions such as Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 1992). As an artist, Houle has shown both nationally and internationally. He is predominantly a painter working in the tradition of Abstraction, yet he has also embraced a pop sensibility by incorporating everyday images and text into his works. His work addresses lingering aspects of colonialism and their effects on First Nation peoples. Houle often appropriates historical photographs and texts, repurposing and combining them with Anishnaabe language and traditionally used materials such as porcupine quills within his works.
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Prabhat Jha
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Prabhat Jha is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health.
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Sam Gindin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Sam Gindin is a Canadian intellectual and activist known for his expertise on the labour movement and the economics of the automobile industry.
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Martha Ostenso
- Occupations
- short story writernovelistpoetsocial workerjournalist
- Biography
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Martha Ostenso was a Norwegian American novelist and screenwriter who is also an important figure in Canadian literary history.
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Harry Prosen
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Harry Prosen was a North American psychiatrist. He was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Canada; and past president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He held leadership roles with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Psychiatric Association.
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Sonia Scurfield
- Occupations
- sports team ownerphilanthropist
- Biography
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Sonia Scurfield, was a Canadian philanthropist. She was the co-owner of the Calgary Flames hockey team from 1985 to 1994. She became the second woman, and the only Canadian woman, to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup when the Flames won the National Hockey League championship in 1989.
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Peter Herrndorf
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Peter A. Herrndorf was a Canadian lawyer and media businessman. He retired as the president and chief executive officer of the National Arts Centre on June 2, 2018.
