100 Notable alumni of
University of Ottawa
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The University of Ottawa is 364th in the world, 151st in North America, and 10th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Ottawa sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alex Trebek
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- 1957-1961 graduated with Bachelor of Science in classical philosophy
- Occupations
- sports commentatortelevision presenteractorgame show hostjournalist
- Biography
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George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian-American game show host and television personality. He is best known for hosting the syndicated general knowledge quiz game show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He also made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.
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Samantha Bee
- Occupations
- television presenterscreenwritervoice actortelevision produceractor
- Biography
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Samantha Anne Bee is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.
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Andrew Scheer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew James Scheer is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Regina—Qu'Appelle since 2004. Scheer served as the 35th speaker of the House of Commons from 2011 to 2015, and was the leader of the Conservative Party and leader of the Official Opposition from 2017 to 2020.
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Hary Tanoesoedibjo
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianhead commissionersocialite
- Biography
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Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo, usually shortened to Hary Tanoesoedibjo or just Hary Tanoe, is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the President Director of PT MNC Investama Tbk, which he founded in 2009. As the chairman, he oversees the holding company and its subsidiaries, including a media giant Media Nusantara Citra (MNC). He is the leader of the Perindo Party.
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Maxime Bernier
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Maxime Bernier is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government.
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Roch Voisine
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal and Paris. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Lisa LaFlamme
- Occupations
- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Lisa LaFlamme is a Canadian television journalist, and formerly the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News. She replaced Lloyd Robertson in this role on September 5, 2011. LaFlamme previously served as the news international affairs correspondent and substitute host for CTV National News. In August 2022, CTV announced it was ending her contract, due to a "business decision" to take the programme in a "different direction", ultimately replacing her with Omar Sachedina. LaFlamme spoke out publicly regarding her dismissal, and went viral on social media when she claimed she was "blindsided" by the decision.
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Rachel Homan
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Helen Prejean
- Occupations
- human rights activistwriter
- Biography
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Helen Prejean is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.
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Clark Johnson
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorfilm actoractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Clark Johnson is an American-Canadian actor and director who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson in Night Heat (1985–1988), Clark Roberts in E.N.G. (1989–1994), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008).
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Mishael Morgan
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Marie-Charms Mishael Morgan known professionally as Mishael Morgan, is a Trinidadian-Canadian actress known for the roles of Hilary Curtis and Amanda Sinclair on CBS Daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless, the latter for which she became the first Black actress to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2022.
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Ahmed Hussen
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- In 2012 studied law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyeractivist
- Biography
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Ahmed Hussen is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been serving as the Minister of International Development since July 26, 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, Hussen has also sat as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto-area the riding of York South—Weston since the 2015 federal election. He previously served as the Minister of Housing, Diversity and Inclusion from 2021 to 2023, Minister of families, children and social development from 2019 to 2021 and the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship from 2017 to 2019. He is the first Somali-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons and the first to hold a federal Cabinet position.
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Richard Wagner
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Richard Wagner is a Canadian jurist serving as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada since 2017. He previously served as a puisne justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal (2011–2012) and of the Supreme Court of Canada (2012–2017). For several months in 2021, following Julie Payette's resignation as Canada's governor general, Wagner was the administrator of the government of Canada as well as chief justice.
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Graydon Carter
- Occupations
- journalistwritereditoractor
- Biography
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Edward Graydon Carter, CM is a Canadian journalist who served as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. In 2019, he co-launched a weekly newsletter with Alessandra Stanley called Air Mail, which is for "worldly cosmopolitans". His current net worth is 12 million dollars.
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Jane Philpott
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Jane Philpott is a physician, academic administrator, and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. Philpott was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. On March 4, 2019, Philpott resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2, 2019, she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were both expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
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Anthony Rota
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony Michael Gerard Rota is a Canadian politician who served as the 37th speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 2019 until his resignation in 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, he currently serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming. He previously represented Nipissing—Timiskaming as MP from 2004 to 2011. In 2019, he was elected by the House of Commons to be the speaker in the 43rd Parliament and in 2021 was re-elected in the 44th Parliament.
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Dalton McGuinty
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a former Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
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Denis Coderre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Coderre is a Canadian politician from Quebec. Coderre was the member of Parliament for the riding of Bourassa from 1997 until 2013, and was the Immigration minister from 2002 to 2003 and became the mayor of Montreal in 2013, but lost in 2017 to Valérie Plante. In 2021, he was defeated once again by Valérie Plante after a second mayoral race. He has been an administrator of Eurostar since 2018 and special advisor for the FIA since 2019.
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Caspar Tsui
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caspar Tsui Ying-wai is a Hong Kong politician, government official and DAB party member. From 2020 to 2022, he has been Secretary for Home Affairs.
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Louise Arbour
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherjudgeinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.
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Jeanne Sauvé
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the first and to date only female Speaker of the House (1980–1984) and as the first female Governor General of Canada (1984–1990).
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Peter Chiarelli
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Peter Chiarelli is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player. He is the Vice President of Hockey Operations for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. He previously served as general manager of both the Boston Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers, winning the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011. Both of his tenures as general manager ended with his being fired, with his Oilers managerial career in particular a source of controversy.
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Angela Hewitt
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Angela Hewitt, is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations.
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Francis George
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Francis Eugene George was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the eighth Archbishop of Chicago in Illinois (1997–2014) and previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland.
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Mitch Garber
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mitch Garber is a Canadian lawyer, investor and business executive. He is a member of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honour in that country, since 2019.
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Marie-Josée Kravis
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Marie-Josée Kravis is a Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist.
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Jacques Martin
- Occupations
- ice hockey coachice hockey player
- Biography
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Jacques Martin is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach who is the interim head coach of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). In the NHL, he has served as the head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens and the Florida Panthers, as well as the Senators' permanent head coach in an earlier tenure. Martin also served as the general manager of the Panthers, and has served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men's national ice hockey team. Martin is a Franco-Ontarian, and a two-time Stanley Cup champion.
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Carla Qualtrough
- Occupations
- politicianswimmer
- Biography
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Carla Dawn Qualtrough is a Canadian politician and former Paralympic swimmer who has served as the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity since July 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, Qualtrough has represented the riding of Delta in the House of Commons since 2015.
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Ahmed Khadr
- Biography
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Ahmed Saïd Khadr was an Egyptian-Canadian philanthropist with alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His activity in Afghanistan began in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and he has been described as having had ties to a number of militants within the Afghan mujahideen, including Saudi militant Osama bin Laden. Khadr was accused by Canada and the United States of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
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John T. Dunlap
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Fra' John Timothy Dunlap is a Canadian attorney who has been the Prince and Grand Master and head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since May 3, 2023. He had been Lieutenant of the Grand Master since 13 June 2022. Dunlap is the first Prince and Grand Master not to be of noble or aristocratic ancestry, which was traditionally a requirement for the role until a revision to the Order's constitution ordered by Pope Francis in 2022.
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Calin Rovinescu
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Călin Rovinescu, served as the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada from April 2009 to February 2021.
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Lisa Weagle
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Lisa Colleen Weagle is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Weagle was the lead on the Rachel Homan team from 2010 until March 12, 2020, when the team announced they would be parting ways with her. She then joined Team Jennifer Jones for two seasons until the team disbanded on March 15, 2022. Weagle was known for her ability to make the eponymous "Weagle" shot (also known as a tick shot), which the Homan rink had used in high frequency while she was a member of the team.
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Oksana Syroyid
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.
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Rod Fergusson
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- video game producercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Rod Fergusson is a Canadian video game producer, best known for overseeing the development of the Gears of War franchise, originally at Epic Games and then as head of The Coalition. More recently, Fergusson moved over to Blizzard Entertainment to oversee development on the Diablo series.
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Maxime Rémillard
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Maxime Rémillard is a Canadian businessman born on January 17, 1975, in Greenfield Park, Quebec. He is the president of both Remcorp, a leading Canadian private investment firm and Remstar Media, an entertainment and content delivery company.
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Greg Fergus
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gregory Cristophe Fergus is a Canadian politician who has served as the 38th and current speaker of the House of Commons of Canada since October 3, 2023. He is the member of Parliament (MP) for Hull—Aylmer.
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Yasir Naqvi
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Yasir Abbas Naqvi is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre since the 2021 federal election, sitting as a Liberal. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Naqvi was active in Ontario provincial politics, serving as the first visible-minority attorney general of Ontario (2016–2018), minister of community safety and correctional services (2014–2016), and minister of labour (2013–2014). He represented Ottawa Centre in the Legislative Assembly. On June 3, 2023, Naqvi announced his candidacy for the 2023 Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Election in which he lost to Bonnie Crombie finishing in third.
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Dawn McEwen
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Dawn Kathleen McEwen is a Canadian retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. McEwen is a two-time world champion in curling, having won with Jones at the 2008 World Championships and again at the 2018 World Championships. In 2019, McEwen was named the greatest Canadian female lead in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.
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Anne-Marie Cadieux
- Occupations
- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing) and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in You (Toi).
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Bernard Drainville
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Bernard Drainville is a Canadian politician, television host and journalist. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Marie-Victorin in Longueuil from 2007 to 2016, representing the Parti Québécois.
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Mélissa Laveaux
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Mélissa Laveaux is an independent Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent previously signed to No Format!. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length album of her own songs, which she co-produced with percussionist Rob Reid (on tabla and cajón) and Lisa Patterson of Imaginit Music Studios. Laveaux has received critical praise from her peers in such magazines as ColorLines and is a Songs from the Heart recipient from the 2006 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals' conference in the World Music category for penning "Koud'lo".
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Mauril Bélanger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mauril Adrien Jules Bélanger was a Canadian politician.
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John Manley
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Paul Manley is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004. From January 2010 to October 2018 he was president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada. He is currently the chairman of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and serves on the advisory board of the Leaders' Debates Commission.
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Leif Vollebekk
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian indie folk singer-songwriter, whose 2017 album Twin Solitude was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize and the 2018 Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year.
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Ousainou Darboe
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ousainou Darboe is a Gambian politician and leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). He previously served as Vice-President of the Gambia and Minister of Women's Affairs from June 2018 to March 2019, under President Adama Barrow. He also served as President Barrow's Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 2017 to June 2018.
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Gérald Tremblay
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gérald Tremblay is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before becoming mayor he had a long career in business and management. Tremblay resigned as Mayor on November 5, 2012, following allegations of corruption made at the Charbonneau Commission.
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Michel Marc Bouchard
- Occupations
- playwrightauthorcomposerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Michel Marc Bouchard, is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of Lilies and The Orphan Muses.
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Gregory So
- Occupations
- justice of the peace
- Biography
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Gregory So Kam-leung is the former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of Hong Kong.
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Amanda Simard
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amanda Simard is the former MPP for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. Simard was elected in the 2018 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, but left the PC caucus on November 29, 2018 after Ontario premier Doug Ford eliminated the province's French-language services commissioner and cancelled plans for a new French language university. On January 16, 2020, Simard joined the Ontario Liberal Party. She lost her seat in the 2022 Ontario general election.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- 1986-1989 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and the 15th Director of National Science Foundation since June 2020.
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Merrilee Fullerton
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Merrilee K. Fullerton is a Canadian physician and former politician who represented Kanata—Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 to 2023. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Fullerton was the minister of training, colleges, and universities from 2018 to 2019, minister of long-term care from 2019 to 2021, and minister of children, community and social services from 2021 to 2023.
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Bob Chiarelli
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Chiarelli is a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who served from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ottawa West and Ottawa West—Nepean. He was the Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1997 to 2001 and was mayor of Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He served in the provincial cabinets of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. Chiarelli was a candidate for Mayor of Ottawa in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election.
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Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, also known as Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad, is a Somali economist and politician. He has held leadership positions with various international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, African Union/IBAR, the European Union, the Bank of Canada, COMESA, and the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
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Hugh Segal
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- In 1972 studied study of history
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Hugh Segal was a Canadian political strategist, author, commentator, academic, and senator. He served as chief of staff to Ontario Premier Bill Davis and later to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Segal resigned from the Senate of Canada on June 15, 2014, as a result of his appointment as master (later principal) of Massey College in Toronto.
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David McGuinty
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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David Joseph McGuinty is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa South since 2004. He currently chairs the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, an executive agency allowing legislator oversight of the Canadian intelligence community. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he has been elected or reelected seven times, most recently in the 2021 federal elections.
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Jean-Jacques Bertrand
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Bertrand was the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.
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Allan Rock
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Allan Michael Rock is a Canadian lawyer, former politician, diplomat and university administrator. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2004–2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993–1997) and Health Minister (1997–2002). During his time in government, he was accused of ethical improprieties after accepting free hospitality from the Irving family, with whom his department had financial dealings.
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Paul Okalik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Okalik is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk to have been called to the Nunavut Bar. He was also the first premier of Nunavut.
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Guy Caron
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Guy Caron is a Canadian politician, who was elected the mayor of Rimouski, Quebec in the 2021 Quebec municipal elections. He was previously a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2019, and served as the federal House leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2019, substituting for party leader Jagmeet Singh who during this time did not hold a seat.
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Sonia Ahmed
- Occupations
- president
- Biography
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Sonia Ahmed as Sonia Iqbal Ahmed, is a Kuwait-born Canadian Pakistani and founder of Miss Canada Pakistan Inc., now known as Miss Pakistan World, Mr. Pakistan World and Mrs. Pakistan World that were first held in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Jean-Paul L'Allier
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Paul L'Allier was a Quebec politician, a two-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and the 38th mayor of Quebec City.
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Brad Sinopoli
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Bradley Sinopoli is a former Canadian football wide receiver who played for nine years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was originally a quarterback with the Calgary Stampeders before being converted to wide receiver in 2013. He then joined the Ottawa Redblacks where he was twice named the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian, was named an East Division All-Star three times, and a CFL All-Star in 2018. He won two Grey Cup championships, after winning with the Stampeders in 2014 and with the Redblacks in 2016, the latter of which he was also named the game's Most Valuable Canadian.
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Anne McGrath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anne McGrath is a Canadian politician who is the National Director of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. Prior to this, she most recently served as principal secretary to former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and as Notley's deputy chief of staff. McGrath was president of the New Democratic Party from 2006 to 2009.
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Hani Rashid
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Hani Rashid is an architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.
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Alexandre Cloutier
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alexandre Cloutier is a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region from 2007 to 2018, representing the Parti Québécois.
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Chris Beard
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- Studied in 1994-1996
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Chris Beard is a Canadian business leader, and former CEO of the Mozilla Corporation.
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Kieran Moore
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Kieran Michael Moore is a Canadian physician and public servant who serves as the current chief medical officer of health of Ontario. Prior to his appointment, he served as the medical officer of health for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington from 2017 to 2021.
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Faisal Kutty
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterlawyerhuman rights activistorator
- Biography
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Faisal Kutty is a lawyer, academic, writer, public speaker and human rights activist. He served as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and is an Associate Professor of Law Emeritus at Valparaiso University. He has previously taught at Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law of Barry University and guest lectured at dozens of universities around North America.
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Anne Lagacé Dowson
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anne Lagacé Dowson is a Canadian radio journalist.
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Howard Hampton
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Howard George Hampton is a politician who was a member of Provincial Parliament for the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, from 1987 to 1999 in the electoral district of Rainy River, and from 1999 to 2011 in the redistributed electoral district of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's leader from 1996 to 2009. Hampton retired from the legislature at the 2011 Ontario provincial election and subsequently joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP as a member of the law firm's corporate social responsibility and aboriginal affairs groups.
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Martin Cauchon
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Martin Cauchon is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec Canada. He served as a Liberal Cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. He unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, losing to Justin Trudeau.
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Marie Grégoire
- Occupations
- président-directeur général
- Biography
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Marie Grégoire was the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the electoral district of Berthier from 2002 to 2003.
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André Marin
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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André Marin is a lawyer who served as Ontario ombudsman from 2005 to 2015.
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Marc-André Bédard
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Marc-André Bédard was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Lac-à-la-Croix, Quebec, Bédard served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1985 and was Minister of Justice and Deputy Premier. Bédard was the father of politician Stéphane Bédard.
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Joyce El-Khoury
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Joyce El-Khoury is a Lebanese-Canadian opera singer performing with leading opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. She is a soprano praised for her bel canto singing.
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Jo-Anne McArthur
- Occupations
- photojournalist
- Biography
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Jo-Anne McArthur is a Canadian photojournalist, humane educator, animal rights activist and author. She is known for her We Animals project, a photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Through the We Animals Humane Education program, McArthur offers presentations about human relationships with animals in educational and other environments, and through the We Animals Archive, she provides photographs and other media for those working to help animals. We Animals Media, meanwhile, is a media agency focused on human/animal relationships.
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Françoise Boivin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Françoise Boivin is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Gatineau in the House of Commons of Canada until 2015.
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Jacques Lacoursière
- Occupations
- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Jacques Lacoursière, was a Canadian TV host, author and historian specialized in Quebec's history.
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Charles C. Thompson
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Charles Coleman Thompson is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in Indiana since 2017. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Evansville in Indiana from 2011 to 2017.
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Benoît Pelletier
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Benoît Pelletier is lawyer, academic, and politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1998 to 2008 and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Jean Charest. He is best known for promoting the concept of "asymmetric federalism" to incorporate Quebec nationalism into a decentralized Canadian federal structure.
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Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.
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Magnus Wenninger
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- 1945-1946 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianCatholic priestteacher
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Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction.
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Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin
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- politician
- Biography
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Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Gatineau in the city's 2013 municipal election under the Action Gatineau banner. Previously a city councillor for the city's Buckingham District, he defeated incumbent mayor Marc Bureau in what was widely seen as a surprise victory.
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Francis Drouin
- Occupations
- politicianconsultant
- Biography
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Francis Drouin is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
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José Avelino Bettencourt
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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José Avelino Bettencourt ComC, OMRI is a Portuguese-Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
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Brigette DePape
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Brigette DePape, born 1989, is a Canadian activist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who was a Canadian Senate page when she disrupted the throne speech in 2011 with a silent demonstration in the Senate of Canada. She has protested other events as well, causing her to be arrested in 2014.
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Kathy Kreiner
- Occupations
- alpine skier
- Biography
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Katharine Kreiner-Phillips is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.
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Lewis Ward
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- athlete
- Biography
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Lewis Ward is a professional Canadian football placekicker for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played U Sports football at the University of Ottawa for the Gee-Gees.
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Marion Dewar
- Occupations
- politiciannurse
- Biography
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Marion Hilda Dewar, was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1987 to 1988.
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Daniel Turp
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Turp is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997–2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003–2008).
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Alex Munter
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- chief executive officerjournalistnewspaper editor
- Biography
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Alexander Mathias Munter is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), and a former elected official and business owner in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Denis Paradis
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Denis Paradis is a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brome—Missisquoi from 2015 until 2019 and previously from 1995 to 2006. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Paradis was Minister of State for Financial Institutions from 2003 to 2004.
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Richard Fadden
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Biography
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Richard Brian Marcel Fadden is a Canadian former civil servant who was the national security advisor to the prime minister of Canada and an associate secretary to the cabinet. He retired from that position on March 31, 2016. He had previously served as the deputy minister for the Department of National Defence from 2013 to 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was previously the deputy minister for Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009.
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Rémy Trudel
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rémy Trudel is a university professor and a former Quebec politician. A member of the Parti Québécois, he served as Member of the National Assembly for Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue from 1989 to 2003. In 1988, he was one of the star candidates for the New Democratic Party in the riding of Témiscamingue. He lost the election by about 3,500 votes.
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Armand Lavergne
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Armand Renaud Lavergne, or La Vergne was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure. He represented Montmagny in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1904 to 1908 and as a Conservative member from 1930 to 1935. He represented Montmagny in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Nationalist member from 1908 to 1916. His surname is given as "La Vergne" by some authoritative sources, including his National Assembly of Quebec biographical page, although these same sources spell his father's name as "Lavergne".
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Dan Ratushny
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Daniel Paul Ratushny is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, lawyer and sports arbitrator. A former professional ice hockey defenceman, he last served as head coach of Lausanne HC of the Swiss top-flight National League A (NLA).
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Joyce Msuya
- Occupations
- environmental scientistmicrobiologist
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Joyce Msuya is a Tanzanian microbiologist and environmental scientist who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she served as the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
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Frank de Jong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank de Jong is a Canadian politician, environmentalist, and elementary school teacher. He joined the Green Party of Ontario in 1987 and became the party's first official leader in 1993 – a position he held until November 14, 2009, when he was succeeded by Mike Schreiner. From 2017 to 2019 he was the leader of the Yukon Green Party. De Jong has also campaigned for federal office as a member of the Green Party of Canada.
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Alima Mahama
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- barristerpolitician
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Hajia Alima Mahama is Ghana's first female ambassador to the US. She is a lawyer and was from January 2005 to January 2009 Minister for the affairs of women and children in Ghana under President John Kufuor. She was also the Ghanaian Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, appointed into office by President of Ghana Nana Akuffo-Addo on 10 January 2017 to 7 January 2021. Hajia Alima also served as the Member of Parliament for Nalerigu/Gambaga constituency and a member of the New Patriotic Party in the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic.
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Mirela Rahneva
- Enrolled in the University of Ottawa
- Studied in 2002-2002
- Occupations
- rugby sevens playerskeleton racer
- Biography
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Mirela "Mimi" Rahneva is a Canadian skeleton racer. Her family immigrated to Canada in 1997; her father, Stoyan, was a competitive gymnast, and her mother was an elite sprinter. After playing rugby in high school and at the University of Guelph, she began competing in skeleton in 2012 and was selected to the Canadian national team in 2016. She is coached by Quin Sekulich and rides a Bromley sled. She was named one of the three women to represent Canada in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after earning eighth on the World Cup season standings for 2017–18.
