65 Notable alumni of
University of New Brunswick
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The University of New Brunswick is 1237th in the world, 438th in North America, and 28th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from the University of New Brunswick sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Anne Murray
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- singer
- Biography
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Morna Anne Murray CC ONS is a Canadian retired country, pop and adult contemporary music singer who has sold over 55 million album copies worldwide during her over 40-year career. Murray has won four Grammys including the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1978.
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Walter Pidgeon
- Occupations
- singerstage actortelevision actortrade unionistfilm actor
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Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeon earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943).
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Doug Mastriano
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
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Douglas Vincent Mastriano is an American far-right politician and retired military officer who has served in the Pennsylvania Senate since 2019, representing the 33rd district for the Republican Party. Born in New Jersey, Mastriano served in the United States Army from 1986 to 2017 and attained the rank of colonel. He ran for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district in 2018, where he finished fourth in the primary. Mastriano won the state senate seat for the 33rd District the following year in a special election.
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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
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- writerbusinesspersonnewspaper proprietorpublisherpolitician
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC ONB, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.
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Dominic LeBlanc
- Occupations
- notarylawyerpolitician
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Dominic A. LeBlanc is a Canadian lawyer and politician who serves as President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy, and Minister of Internal Trade. A member of the Liberal Party, LeBlanc is the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauséjour since 2000. He has held several Cabinet portfolios throughout his tenure in government as LeBlanc is often described as a political "fixer," frequently appointed to departments in need of stabilization or facing controversy. His retention and promotion under both Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney have been noted as evidence of his cross-factional credibility and role as a steadying force in Cabinet.
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Blaine Higgs
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Blaine Myron Higgs is a former Canadian politician who served as the 34th premier of New Brunswick from 2018 to 2024 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) from 2016 to 2024.
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Frank McKenna
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- bankerlawyerdiplomatpolitician
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Francis Joseph McKenna PC OC ONB KC is a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat. He is currently Chair of Brookfield Corporation and Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. He served as Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2006. He served as the 27th premier of New Brunswick from 1987 to 1997, winning every seat in the province in his first election.
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Craig Davidson
- Occupations
- choreographerscreenwriterwriternovelistdancer
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Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter.
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Alistair MacLeod
- Occupations
- university teachernovelistwriter
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Alistair MacLeod OC ONS FRSC was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition.
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Jenica Atwin
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
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Jenica Atwin is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Fredericton in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Atwin was the first Member of Parliament of the Green Party of Canada to be elected outside of British Columbia and the first woman to be elected in the riding of Fredericton. In June 2021, she crossed the floor from the Green Party to the Liberal Party of Canada, and was re-elected as a Liberal three months later in the 2021 federal election. She declined to run in the 2025 federal election.
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Sam Hinds
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds is a Guyanese politician who was Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015. He also briefly served as President of Guyana in 1997. He was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence (O.E.) in 2011.
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Heidi Shyu
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Heidi Shyu is a Taiwanese-born American engineer who had served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology ASA(ALT) from 2012 to January 30, 2016.
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Wade MacLauchlan
- Occupations
- politicianbiographer
- Biography
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H. Wade MacLauchlan CM OPEI, is a Canadian academic administrator and former politician who served as the 32nd premier of Prince Edward Island and leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party from 2015 to 2019. He also served as the fifth president of the University of Prince Edward Island from 1999 to 2011, and has been the seventh modern chancellor of the University of New Brunswick since 2023.
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Bliss Carman
- Occupations
- writerpoetjournalisteditor
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William Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.
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Charles G. D. Roberts
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriter
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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG FRSC was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. He published various works on Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction." He continued to be a well-known "man of letters" until his death.
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Shawn Graham
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shawn Michael Graham is a Canadian politician, who served as the 31st premier of New Brunswick from 2006 to 2010. He was elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party in 2002 and became premier after his party captured a majority of seats in the 2006 election. After being elected, Graham initiated a number of changes to provincial policy especially in the areas of health care, education and energy. His party was defeated in the New Brunswick provincial election held September 27, 2010, and Graham resigned as Liberal leader on November 9, 2010.
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Rob Moore
- Occupations
- policy advisorlawyerpolitician
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Robert S. Moore PC MP is a Canadian lawyer, politician, and former Minister of State (ACOA) and Regional Minister for New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Kwame Dawes
- Occupations
- writerperiodical editorpoetmagazine editor
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Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is a Ghanaian poet, academic, critic, actor, and musician. He is the former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina and former Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was appointed Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University in 2024. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series and director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He was editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine from 2011 until 2025. He has published thirty books of poetry, as well as works of fiction, essays, and criticism. His awards include the Forward Poetry Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, a 2009 Emmy Award, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, Brittle Paper's literary person of the year award, the Windham-Campbell Prize in 2019, and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2025. He is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In April 2024, Dawes was announced as the new poet laureate of Jamaica.
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Duane Rousselle
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Duane Rousselle is a Canadian sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and professor of sociology.
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Charles Fisher
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Charles Fisher was a politician and jurist of New Brunswick, Canada. Fisher was a leading Reformer of his day who headed the first responsible government in New Brunswick from 1854 to 1861.
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William Diller Matthew
- Occupations
- paleontologistzoologisttaxonomist
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William Diller Matthew FRS was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known (Early Permian) therapsid.
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Paul Zed
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Paul Zed is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.
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William Francis Ganong
- Occupations
- historianbotanistcartographer
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William Francis Ganong FRSC was a Canadian botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In his private life he contributed to the historical and geographical understanding of his native New Brunswick.
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George Eulas Foster
- Occupations
- university teacherteacherpolitician
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Sir George Eulas Foster was a Canadian politician and academic.
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Gary Agnew
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
- Biography
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Gary Agnew is a Canadian ice hockey coach currently serving as an associate coach with the Abbotsford Canucks. He was formerly an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. He has also served as an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues and Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.
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David Tilson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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David Allan Tilson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2002, and served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Dufferin—Caledon from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party. When he left office, he was the oldest serving MP in the 42nd Parliament.
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Ted Flemming
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hugh John Alexander "Ted" Flemming KC is a retired Canadian politician who served as a member of the MLA for the electoral district of Rothesay in New Brunswick and in the cabinets of David Alward and Blaine Higgs. Flemming was first elected to the legislature in a by-election on June 25, 2012, but lost his seat in the 2024 New Brunswick general election.
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Lalith J. Rao
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- singerelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Lalith J. Rao is an Indian classical singer and a representative of the Agra gharana (singing style).
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Walter Learning
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortheatrical directorplaywrightactor
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Walter John Learning CM ONB was a Canadian theatre director, actor, and founder of Theatre New Brunswick.
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Mizan Rahman
- Occupations
- writermathematician
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Mizan Rahman was a Bangladeshi Canadian mathematician and writer. He specialized in fields of mathematics such as hypergeometric series and orthogonal polynomials. He also had interests encompassing literature, philosophy, scientific skepticism, freethinking and rationalism. He co-authored Basic Hypergeometric Series with George Gasper. This book is widely considered as the standard work of choice for that subject of study. He also published ten Bengali books.
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Don Scott
- Years
- 1960s
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Keith Donald Charles Scott ECA KC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, and as an MLA and Cabinet minister for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. He currently works for the Métis Nation of Alberta as an executive director.
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Alaina Lockhart
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- business executivepoliticianentrepreneurbusinesspersonhuman resource manager
- Biography
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Alaina Lockhart is a Canadian Liberal politician who represented the riding of Fundy Royal in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019. She took on the role of Parliamentary Secretary to Small Business and Tourism, as well as Official Languages and La Francophonie. She has served as a member of the Agriculture and Agri-food Standing Committee, and the Veterans Affairs Standing Committee. Lockhart lost her seat in the 2019 Canadian federal election to Rob Moore.
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Ian Munro
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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James Ian Munro is a Canadian computer scientist. He is known for his fundamental contributions to algorithms and data structures (including optimal binary search trees, priority queues, hashing, and space-efficient data structures).
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John B. McNair
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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John Babbitt McNair CC QC was the 23rd premier of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1952. He worked as a lawyer, politician and judge.
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Trevor Holder
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Trevor Arthur Holder is a former Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2024. At the time of his resignation, he was the longest serving member of the legislature.
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David Arnason
- Occupations
- poetnovelist
- Biography
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David Arnason is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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John Streicker
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Streicker is a Canadian artist and politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in the 2016 Yukon general election. He represented the electoral district of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes as a member of the Yukon Liberal Party until 2025.
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George Robert Parkin
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sir George Robert Parkin KCMG was a Canadian educator, imperialist, and author.
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D. Craig Aitchison
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major-General David Craig Aitchison CMM CD is a former Canadian military officer, who most recently served as the commander of the Canadian Defence Academy. He is the former Director of Army Staff and Director of Infantry for the Canadian Forces, the former Commandant of the Infantry School, the former Commander of the Combat Training Centre, and former Deputy Commanding General for Operations with US Army Alaska. MGen Aitchison holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick. a master's degree in Defence Studies from the Joint Command and Staff Program at the Canadian Forces College, as well as a master's degree in Military Art and Science from the United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Aitchison was promoted to Brigadier General, while serving as Chief of Staff for the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command - Operation INHERENT RESOLVE (CJFLCC-OIR). He was promoted major-general in June 2020 and took command of the Canadian Defense Academy in August 2020.
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George H. V. Bulyea
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Hedley Vicars Bulyea was a Canadian politician and the first Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. As the youngest ever Lieutenant Governor, at age 46, he was appointed by Governor General Earl Grey on advice of Prime Minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier on September 1, 1905.
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Craig McKinley
- Occupations
- surgeonphysician
- Biography
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Craig Anthony McKinley was a Canadian physician. On February 28, 2003, McKinley participated in the world's first telerobotic-assisted surgery, conducted at two hospitals separated by 400 kilometres. He later served as an aquanaut on the joint NASA-NOAA NEEMO 7 underwater exploration mission in October 2004, where he and other aquanauts tested remote health care procedures with potential application for space travel. McKinley experienced problems with alcohol and faced legal difficulties beginning in 2009. He lost his hospital privileges in 2011 and died in 2013.
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Andrea Anderson-Mason
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrea Dawn Anderson-Mason, KC is a lawyer and former Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2018 election. She represented the electoral district of Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick until 2024. She was appointed the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of New Brunswick in the Government of Blaine Higgs on November 9, 2018. She was re-elected in the 2020 provincial election. She was not named to cabinet after the 2020 election. On May 24, 2024 she announced that she would not run in the next election, stating that she "has concluded that members of the legislature don't play a meaningful role in developing policy and legislation in the Higgs government".
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William Pugsley
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Pugsley PC KC was a politician and lawyer in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Cathy Rogers
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cathy L. Rogers is a retired Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2014 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Moncton South as a member of the Liberal Party. She was New Brunswick's Finance Minister. Rogers stood down at the 2020 general election.
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Ken Lipenga
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Ken Diston Lipenga is a Malawian politician, journalist, and writer. He was the Member of Parliament for Phalombe East from 1997 to 2014. He has served in various ministerial positions.
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Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley was a New Brunswick lawyer, politician and the 21st premier of New Brunswick.
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Chris Simpson
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- cardiologist
- Biography
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Chris Simpson is a Canadian cardiologist who served as the 147th President of the Canadian Medical Association (2014–2015). During his tenure, he championed seniors' care, arguing that a more comprehensive and integrated approach to the care of seniors would serve as a foundation for improving the Canadian healthcare system as a whole. Other issues during his term included a national discussion on end of life care (that coincided with a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down the ban on medical aid in dying (MAID) and new legislation allowing MAID), as well as issues around the public health implications and possible medicinal utility of cannabis.
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Arvind Varma
- Occupations
- chemical engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Arvind Varma was the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research interests are in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, and new energy sources.
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Greg Byrne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Greg Byrne, KC is a lawyer and former MLA in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
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Robert Nielsen
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Robert Fredsø Nielsen was a Canadian journalist who is known for his time with the Toronto Star. Nielsen was employed by the newspaper for 33 years and served in several capacities, including as a correspondent, foreign correspondent, chief editorial writer, editorial page editor, investigative reporter and editorial page columnist.
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Nicole Letourneau
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- researchernurseprofessor
- Biography
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Nicole Lyn Letourneau is a Canadian professor and researcher. She is the University of Calgary Research Excellence Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health. Formerly she held Research Chairs in Parent and Infant./Child Mental Health funded by Alberta Children's Hospital, Palix/Norlien, and Newall Family Foundations (2011–2023). She currently serves as the Scientific Director of the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) Health Research Training Platform and Women's and Girls' Health Hub (funded by CIHR). She is also the director of RESOLVE Alberta and principal investigator for the CHILD (Child Health Implementation and Longitudinal Development) Studies Program at Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. She has written over 270 peer-reviewed publications; authored the books, Parenting and Child Development: Issues and Answers, What Kind of Parent Am I: Self-Surveys That Reveal The Impact of Toxic Stress Scientific Parenting: What Science reveals about Parental Impact, and has contributed more than 20 other books on parenting and childcare.
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Timothy Christian Lethbridge
- Enrolled in the University of New Brunswick
- 1985-1987 graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistsoftware engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Timothy Christian Lethbridge is a British/Canadian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of Ottawa, known for his contributions in the fields of software engineering, knowledge management and computer animation, and the development of Umple.
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Penny Park
- Occupations
- science journalist
- Biography
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Penelope Dawn Park (July 26, 1953 – December 14, 2018) was a Canadian science journalist.
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Jack MacDougall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jack MacDougall is a former politician in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Matthew Heiti
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- novelistactorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Matthew Heiti is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright. As cowriter with Ryan Ward of the film Son of the Sunshine, he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.
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Steven Staples
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Steven Staples is a Canadian policy analyst. He is president of Public Response, a digital agency that services non-profit organizations and trade unions in the fields of online engagement and government relations.
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Jordan Murray
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Jordan Murray is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who plays for EC KAC of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL).
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Alex DesRoches
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Alexander Paul DesRoches is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Island Storm of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada). He played college basketball for the University of New Brunswick.
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Eric Teed
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Eric Lawrence Teed, OC QC was a Canadian lawyer, author, history, civil rights advocate and politician.
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Matt Robinson
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Matt Robinson is a Canadian poet born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Charles Richmond Mitchell
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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Edwin T. McKnight
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edwin T. McKnight was a politician who served on the Boston City Council, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives; and as a member, and President of, the Massachusetts Senate.
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John Douglas Hazen
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sir John Douglas Hazen, PC, KCMG was a politician in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Alexander L. Bond
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- researcherscientific collector
- Biography
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Alexander L. Bond is a Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator. He holds the position of Principal Curator and Curator in Charge of Birds at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bond is actively involved with the marine plastics pollution research group Adrift Lab. Additionally, he serves as the Ornithologist in Residence at St Nicholas Church, Leicester, a church known for its LGBTQ+-inclusive stance.
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W.C.H. Grimmer
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ward Chipman Hazen Grimmer was a lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Charlotte County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1903 to 1917.
