100 Notable alumni of
University of Quebec in Montreal
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The University of Quebec in Montreal is 539th in the world, 203rd in North America, and 17th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Quebec in Montreal sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Denis Villeneuve
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Denis Villeneuve OC CQ RCA OAL is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide.
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Jean-Marc Vallée
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorfilm director
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Jean-Marc Vallée OC OQ was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes (1991), Les Fleurs magiques (1995), and Les Mots magiques (1998).
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Maxime Bernier
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Maxime Bernier PC 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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Mathieu Bock-Côté
- Occupations
- columnistessayist
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Mathieu Bock-Côté, often referred to by his initials MBC, is a Canadian sociologist, essayist, writer, public intellectual, and conservative political commentator who resides in Paris, where he appears as a television and radio personality.
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Valérie Plante
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Valérie Plante is a Canadian politician serving as the 45th and current mayor of Montreal since 2017. First elected to Montreal City Council in the 2013 election, she has served as leader of the Projet Montréal party since December 2016.
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Nelly Arcan
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Nelly Arcan was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
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Pierre Karl Péladeau
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianchairman of the executive boardbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Pierre Karl Péladeau OQ, also known by his initials PKP, is a Canadian businessman, billionaire and former politician. He was also the MNA (Member of the National Assembly) for Saint-Jérôme. Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Inc. He used to own Sun Media Corporation. Péladeau is seen as a "strong Quebec nationalist" and an influential businessman in Quebec.
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Pierre Lapointe
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His work largely follows in the tradition of French chanson, though he is influenced by modern pop music. Defining himself as a "popular singer", he has built an egocentric persona of a dandy onstage, but says he does this mostly to deflect attention from himself. His records have found critical and commercial success in Canada. His regular tours in France ensured him a growing popularity as well as critical recognition.
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Martin Villeneuve
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mars et Avril, his feature film debut. He is also known for The 12 Tasks of Imelda, his second feature film released in 2022, in which he portrays his own grandmother, and for his animated series Red Ketchup which premiered in 2023. Villeneuve previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is a politician from Canada. He is the co-spokesperson of the left-wing party Québec solidaire since May 21, 2017, and was elected as a member of the provincial legislative assembly on May 29, 2017. Before his arrival in active politics, he was well known for his role during the 2012 Quebec student protests as co-spokesperson of the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE), a broad coalition of student associations opposed to the $1,625 tuition hike introduced by Jean Charest's government. He quit that position on August 9, 2012.
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Martin Matte
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriteractorcomedian
- Biography
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Martin Matte is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor from Laval, Quebec. He created and starred in the television sitcom Les Beaux malaises, and is the current spokesperson for Quebec grocery store chain Maxi, a position he has held since 2016.
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Guy A. Lepage
- Occupations
- actortelevision producertelevision presenterfilm directorcomedian
- Biography
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Guy A. Lepage is a Canadian comedian, actor, talk show host, and producer.
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Ariane Moffatt
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersingersongwriter
- Biography
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Ariane Moffatt is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Known for working across multiple musical genres, Moffatt's music combines elements of electronica, jazz, folk, and pop. A francophone, she is bilingual and has recorded tracks in both French and English. Her 2002 debut album Aquanaute went platinum in Quebec, earning 11 nominations at the 2003 ADISQ Awards and winning three Félix awards (for Discovery of the Year, Album of the Year – Pop/Rock, and Album Producer of the Year). She is known in Quebec for two well-received singles from Aquanaute: "La barricade" and "Dans un océan".
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Catherine Dorion
- Occupations
- film directorpoliticianactorpolitical scientistwriter
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Catherine Dorion is a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Taschereau as a member of Québec solidaire from 2018 to 2022. Dorion is aligned with Option nationale, a pro-independence faction, referred internally as a "collective", within QS.
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Jean-François Lisée
- Occupations
- politicianwriterjournalistessayist
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Jean-François Lisée is a Canadian politician who served as the leader of the Parti Québécois from October 2016 until October 2018. He was first elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 Quebec election in the electoral district of Rosemont.
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Ken Scott
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Ken Scott is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director, and comedian. He is best known as a member of the comedy group Les Bizarroïdes with Martin Petit, Stéphane E. Roy and Guy Lévesque, and as screenwriter of the films Seducing Doctor Lewis, The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petite vengeance), and Starbuck, as well as television series Le Plateau.
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Patrick Pichette
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief financial officer
- Biography
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Patrick Pichette CQ is a Canadian business executive and venture capitalist who was the senior vice president and the chief financial officer of Google from 2008 until 2015. He then became a venture capital fund manager, and is a director for several companies and a foundation.
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Sylvie Moreau
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Sylvie Moreau, is a Canadian actress.
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Geneviève Pettersen
- Occupations
- film screenwriterscreenwriternovelistwriterblogger
- Biography
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Geneviève Pettersen is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel, La déesse des mouches à feu (2014), was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire Archambault.
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Antoine Vézina
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Antoine Vézina is a Canadian actor and television personality.
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Daniel Langlois
- Occupations
- animatorbusiness magnateinventorphilanthropist
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Daniel Langlois OC CQ was a Canadian businessman who was the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.
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Marguerite Blais
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She was a Coalition Avenir Québec Member of the National Assembly of Québec and a previous Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the Comité ministériel des services aux citoyens. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015, and served as the Minister responsible for Seniors, vice-chair of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel and member of the Conseil du trésor.
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Léa Clermont-Dion
- Occupations
- researcherfilm director
- Biography
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Léa Clermont-Dion is a Canadian author, feminist, television and radio host, and body image advocate. She was a co-facilitator, with Jacinthe Veillette, and spokesperson of the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. Clermont-Dion came to public attention during an appearance on the television programme Tout le monde en parle in October 2009. She is a doctoral student in political science at Laval University and the author of La revanche des moches (2014) and Les Superbes (2016).
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Raquel Peña
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Raquel Peña Rodríguez de Antuña is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as the 40th Vice President of the Dominican Republic under President Luis Abinader since 2020.
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Amandine Gay
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied in 2015-2018
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorafrofeministactor
- Biography
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Amandine Gay is a French feminist, filmmaker, researcher and actress. Her first film Ouvrir la Voix is a documentary giving voice to Black women in France that aims to give an other approach of feminist movements.
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Peter Julian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter S. Julian MP is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party (NDP), representing the riding of New Westminster—Burnaby. He was first elected in 2004.
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Jean-François Roberge
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politicianwriterchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Jean-François Roberge MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represents the electoral district of Chambly as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and is the former Education Minister. He was replaced by Bernard Drainville in October 2022.
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Julie Doucet
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Julie Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex, violence, menstruation and male/female issues."
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Pierre-Luc Brillant
- Occupations
- film actorsongwritertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Pierre-Luc Brillant is a Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his performance in the film C.R.A.Z.Y., for which he received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2006.
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Luc Ferrandez
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luc Ferrandez is a Canadian politician. He was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is a member of the Projet Montréal municipal political party.
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Charlotte Aubin
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Charlotte Aubin is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Isla Blanca, for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018. 2025Big Brother Célébrités
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Bryan Perro
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Bryan Perro is the author of the children's fantasy fiction series Amos Daragon, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'.
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Romeo Saganash
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Diom Roméo Saganash is a Cree lawyer and former politician from Canada. Saganash served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou in Quebec from 2011 to 2019. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election and was re-elected in the 2015 federal election. He did not run in 2019.
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Caroline St-Hilaire
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Caroline St-Hilaire is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Longueuil under the banner of Action Longueuil from November 10, 2009, to November 5, 2017. She was previously a Member of Parliament, representing the Bloc Québécois for the riding of Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher.
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Arlette Cousture
- Occupations
- opinion journalistjournalistscreenwriterradio employeewriter
- Biography
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Arlette Cousture, OC CQ is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec. Many of her novels have become best-sellers in the French language.
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Steven Blaney
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Steven Blaney PC is a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. He served as the Minister of Public Safety Canada (July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015) and previously as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (May 18, 2011 – July 14, 2013). He has represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons since the 2006 federal election. Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone. He was reelected in the 2015 election. In 2017, he unsuccessfully ran for Conservative party leader.
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Larry Tremblay
- Occupations
- actorpoetnovelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Larry Tremblay is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le Mangeur de bicyclette at the 2003 Governor General's Awards and for L'Orangeraie at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards for the published compilation of his plays Ogre and Cornemuse.
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Marie-France Bazzo
- Occupations
- television presenterproducerradio personality
- Biography
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Marie-France Bazzo is a Canadian broadcaster, who has hosted television programming for Télé-Québec and radio programming for the Ici Radio-Canada Première network.
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Sylvie Bernier
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Émilie Heymans
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. She was born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park, a suburb of Montreal. Heymans has won four Olympic medals, two bronze and two silver. She was the first female diver to win medals in four consecutive Olympic games and the first Canadian to win medals in four consecutive Olympics. Heymans also is a one time world champion and has won four Pan American championships as well as one Commonwealth Games championship. In addition she has won multiple medals in all three of these competitions.
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Simon Plouffe
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Simon Plouffe is a French Canadian mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the nth digit of π in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec.
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Gilles Proulx
- Occupations
- television presenterauthorradio personality
- Biography
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Gilles Proulx is a Canadian radio and television host in the province of Quebec. His radio career began in 1962, notably working for CHMP-FM and currently for Quebecor and Radio Ville-Marie. A strong Quebec nationalist, known for his conservative views and criticism of the anglophone community, he’s published 153 opinion columns in the Le Journal de Montréal as of 2020.
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Misstress Barbara
- Occupations
- record producerdisc jockeysongwriter
- Biography
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Barbara Bonfiglio, better known as Misstress Barbara, is an Italian-born Canadian producer, DJ and singer-songwriter. Born in Catania, Italy, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the age of eight and has resided in the city ever since. She has DJed around the globe and has an extensive discography as a producer.
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Laure Waridel
- Occupations
- writerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Laure Waridel, CM is a social activist, a writer, a professor of environment at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a radio and TV commentator.
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Guy Caron
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- 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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Paul Doucet
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Paul Doucet is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Jean Duceppe in Jean Duceppe.
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Stéphane Bergeron
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stéphane Bergeron MP is a Canadian politician. He currently serves as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada since 2019 and previously served in that office from 1993 to 2005. He served as a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2005 to 2018.
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Joseph Facal
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Joseph Facal is a Canadian politician, academic, and journalist in the province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.
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Scott McKay
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- In 1987 graduated with bachelor's degree in science
- Graduated with Master of Science in environmental science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott McKay is a Canadian politician, who served as a former leader of the Green Party of Quebec and a former Montreal council member. McKay was elected in 2008 to the Quebec National Assembly for the Parti Québécois but he was defeated in the 2014 Quebec election.
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Vincent Marissal
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Marissal is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Rosemont as a member of Québec solidaire.
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Sébastien Proulx
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sébastien Proulx is a Canadian politician. He was an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the electoral district of Trois-Rivières from 2007 to 2008. He is a lawyer and was the main political consultant to ADQ leader Mario Dumont until his election.
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François Gravel
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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François Gravel is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Most noted as an author of literature for children and young adults, he has also published a number of adult novels.
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Michèle Audette
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michèle Taïna Audette is a Canadian politician and activist. She served as president of Femmes autochtones du Québec (Quebec Native Women) from 1998 to 2004 and again from 2010 to 2012. She was also the president of Native Women's Association of Canada from 2012 to 2014. From 2004 through 2008, she served as Associate Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Relations with Citizens and Immigration of the Quebec government, where she was in charge of the Secretariat for Women.
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Taraneh Javanbakht
- Occupations
- composerphilosophersculptorphotographerliterary critic
- Biography
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Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.
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Michel Venne
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Michel Venne is a Canadian journalist, author and intellectual. He was a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence and of progressive, social democratic politics.
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Nicole Brossard
- Occupations
- film directorpoetdirectorwriterwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Nicole Brossard OC CQ is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.
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Corno
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Joanne Corneau, better known by the pseudonym Corno, was a Canadian artist from the Saguenay region of Quebec. She achieved international recognition for her large-scale paintings of women's faces and bodies in a "post-pop" style.
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Richard Z. Sirois
- Occupations
- humoristradio personality
- Biography
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Richard Z. Sirois is a French-speaking Canadian radio and television comedian. He was born in Matane, Quebec. His family moved with him to Montreal when he was six years old.
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Barbada de Barbades
- Occupations
- association football playerdrag queendisc jockey
- Biography
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Barbada de Barbades is the stage name of Sébastien Potvin, a Canadian drag queen most noted as one of the drag house mothers in the reality competition series Call Me Mother.
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Stéphane Lafleur
- Occupations
- film directormusicianfilm screenwriterscreenwriterfilm editor
- Biography
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Stéphane Lafleur is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician.
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Marie Montpetit
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marie Montpetit is a former Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. She represented the electoral district of Maurice-Richard.
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Emmanuel Dubourg
- Occupations
- politicianChartered Professional Accountantaccountant
- Biography
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Emmanuel Dubourg MP is a Canadian politician, chartered accountant and teacher from Quebec. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Viau from 2007 until 2013. On November 25, 2013, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election to become the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Montreal riding of Bourassa.
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Daniel Paillé
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Daniel Paillé is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois, and represented the district of Hochelaga in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois with 62 percent of the vote on December 11, 2011. Paillé stepped down as leader on December 16, 2013 for health reasons.
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Catherine Pogonat
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Catherine Pogonat is a Canadian radio and television host from Montreal, known for her role in musical and cultural events in the province of Quebec.
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Alain Farah
- Occupations
- poetuniversity teachernovelistwriterliterary scholar
- Biography
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Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents, he has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
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Claudia Larochelle
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- columnistwriterchildren's writerjournalist
- Biography
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Claudia Larochelle is a Québécoise journalist, radio host and writer. After a college training in theatre, a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in creative writing from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she interned as a cultural columnist for the electronic journal Rue Frontenac (in French) and made appearances on different media, including on Radio-Canada.
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Amina Gerba
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Amina Gerba CQ is a Cameroonian-Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Afrique Expansion, Afrique Expansion Forum, and Afrique Expansion magazine. She also founded the beauty care brands Kariliss and Kariderm–the latter being the world's first shea butter product to earn organic certification. In 2014, she was a recipient of the National Order of Quebec. She is a director for the Canadian Council on Africa, African Business Roundtable, and Fonds Afro-Entrepreneurs, and is the president of the board of directors for Entreprendre Ici. In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominated her to the Canadian Senate, as a Senator for Quebec.
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Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard is a Canadian judoka who competes in the women's 63 kg category. Beauchemin-Pinard won a bronze medal in the 63 kg weight class at the 2020 Summer Olympics, making her the second Canadian woman to win a medal in judo at the Summer Olympics. She has been ranked in the top 10 of the world in her weight category.
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Andrée A. Michaud
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightnovelistessayist
- Biography
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Andrée A. Michaud is a Canadian novelist and playwright from Quebec. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le ravissement at the 2001 Governor General's Awards and for Bondrée at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Ringuet in 2007 for Mirror Lake. Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler, was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Lise Roy
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Lise Roy is a Canadian actress who has appeared in stage productions, film and television.
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Maryse Dubuc
- Occupations
- comics artistcomics colorist
- Biography
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Maryse Dubuc is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for The Bellybuttons which she created with Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf").
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Marlene Jennings
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Marlene Jennings PC is a former Canadian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011.
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Roxanne Bouchard
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Roxanne Bouchard is a Canadian writer and educator from Quebec. She is best known for her series of maritime crime fiction novels centred on the investigations of detective Joaquin Moralès in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula.
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Louis Hamelin
- Occupations
- writernovelistliterary critic
- Biography
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Louis Hamelin is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1989 for his novel La Rage, and was nominated for the same award in 1995 for his novel Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre and in 2006 for his short story collection Sauvages.
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François Blais
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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François Blais is a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election and named Minister of Employment. He represented the electoral district of Charlesbourg as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. From February 27, 2015, to January 28, 2016, he served as Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports following the resignation of Yves Bolduc. After January 28, he returned to the Employment and Labour portfolio.
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Mathieu Traversy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mathieu Traversy is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. Since 2021, he has been the mayor of Terrebonne. Previously, he represented the riding of Terrebonne in the National Assembly of Quebec from the 2008 provincial election until his defeat in the 2018 provincial election. He was a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Nicole Léger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Léger is a former Canadian politician and the former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Pointe-aux-Trembles from 1996 to 2006 and elected back as member of the Parti Québécois in a by-election on May 12, 2008, serving until the 2018 Quebec provincial election.
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Steven Bednarski
- Occupations
- historianactor
- Biography
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Steven Bednarski is a Canadian historian of the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment, crime, sex, gender, and microhistory. He is notable for being awarded an exceptionally high level of public research funding and for piloting a trans-disciplinary international research partnership network. As a child, Bednarski also worked in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario as an actor.
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Anique Poitras
- Occupations
- children's writerpoetnovelistadjunct professorwriter
- Biography
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Anique Poitras was an award-winning writer in Quebec, Canada, whose work was aimed mostly at adolescent readers.
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Frantz Benjamin
- Occupations
- poetnovelistpoliticianwriterstoryteller
- Biography
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Frantz Benjamin is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Viau as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Fernando Barrios Ipenza
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Barrios Ipenza was born in Andahuaylas – Peru, he is an entrepreneur, engineer and Peruvian politician, member of the Peruvian Aprista Party. He was president of the social security health Peru and Minister of the Interior of Peru from September 14 to November 22, 2010.
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Alexandre Leduc
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- 2003-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Social Science in study of history
- 2006-2010 graduated with master's degree in study of history
- 2010-2013 graduated with graduate certificate in social law and labor law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexandre Leduc is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve as a member of Québec solidaire.
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Angelo Iacono
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Angelo G. Iacono MP is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Alfred-Pellan in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
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Abla Farhoud
- Occupations
- writernovelistplaywright
- Biography
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Abla Farhoud was a Lebanese-born Canadian writer who lived in Quebec.
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Élise Turcotte
- Occupations
- short story writerman of lettersliterary scholaruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989.
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Gabriel Ste-Marie
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistteacher
- Biography
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Gabriel Ste-Marie MP is a Canadian politician and academic who was elected to represent the riding Joliette in the House of Commons in the 2015 election. He teaches economics at Cégep régional de Lanaudière.
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Yves Robillard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yves Robillard MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election.
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Isabelle Arsenault
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Isabelle Arsenault is a Canadian award winning illustrator living in Montreal, Quebec. She is known for her elaborate yet simplified artwork in children's literature.
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Daniel Green
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Green is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and scientific communicator. Since 2000, he has been a consultant for Sierra Club of Canada, Société pour vaincre la pollution (SVP), Coalition Eau Secours, the Rivers Foundation, Nature Québec and Parks Canada.
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Marc-Antoine Gagnon
- Occupations
- freestyle skier
- Biography
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Marc-Antoine Gagnon is a Canadian freestyle skier. Gagnon represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the moguls event. He placed fourth, narrowly losing to Russia's Alexandr Smyshlyaev for the bronze medal. Gagnon won a bronze as part of a Canadian podium sweep in the dual moguls event at the 2015 World Championships.
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Anissa Khelfaoui
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Anissa Khelfaoui is an Algerian female fencer.
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Élaine Zakaïb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Élaine Zakaïb was a Canadian politician. She was member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Richelieu, first elected in the 2012 election and re-elected in 2014.
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Benoit Dorais
- Born in
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Canada - Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Benoit Dorais is a city councillor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has served as the borough mayor of Le Sud-Ouest since 2009. From his first election to 2013, Dorais was a member of Vision Montreal, before joining Coalition Montréal in 2013 and Projet Montréal before the 2017 municipal election.
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Kasandra Bradette
- Occupations
- short-track speed skater
- Biography
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Kasandra Bradette is a Canadian short track speed skater. She has won world championship and World Cup medals.
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Claude Beausoleil
- Occupations
- essayistpoetliterary criticuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Claude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
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Eric Girard
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Eric Girard MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and has served as the Minister of Finance since 2018.
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Joël Arseneau
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joël Arseneau is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Îles-de-la-Madeleine as a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Matthias Rioux
- Occupations
- radio personalitytrade unionistjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Matthias Rioux is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Matane in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003 as a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Michel de Broin
- Occupations
- photographersculptorinstallation artistvideo artist
- Biography
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Michel de Broin is a Canadian sculptor. De Broin has created numerous public artworks in Canada and Europe, including the Salvador Allende monument in Montreal. He was the recipient of the 2007 Sobey Art Award.
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Guy Berthiaume
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- university teachermentorhistorianarchivist
- Biography
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Guy Berthiaume CM CQ is Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. A Canadian historian specialized in the study of Classical Antiquity, he served as chair and chief executive officer of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec from June 22, 2009, to June 21, 2014, and, from June 23, 2014, to August 29, 2019, he served as Librarian and Archivist of Canada.
