88 Notable alumni of
University of Victoria
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The University of Victoria is 746th in the world, 276th in North America, and 21st in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 88 notable alumni from the University of Victoria sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nathan Fielder
- Occupations
- television producerscreenwriterdirectortelevision actorcomedian
- Biography
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Nathan Joseph Fielder is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and producer. He is known for his awkward persona and involvement in works that blur reality and fiction. His accolades include an Independent Spirit Award and a WGA Award, as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award. In 2023, he was featured on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Mark Chao
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorsingermodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Mark Chao is a Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model. He made his debut in the television series Black & White (2009), for which he won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor. After collaborating with director Doze Niu in Monga (2010) and Love (2012), he shifted his career to China, starring in films Caught in the Web (2012), So Young (2013), Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013), Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015), Her Story (2024) as well as the television series Eternal Love (2017).
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Calvin Chen
- Occupations
- modeltelevision actoractorsinger
- Biography
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Calvin Chen is a Taiwanese actor, businessman, model, singer, and television host. He was a member of the Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit, along with Jiro Wang, Wu Chun and Aaron Yan.
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Erin Karpluk
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Erica Strange on the CBC Television series Being Erica from 2009 to 2011.
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Jody Wilson-Raybould
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jody Wilson-Raybould PC OBC KC, also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party – serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019, and briefly as veterans affairs minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 – until she resigned in response to statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the SNC-Lavalin affair. After she was expelled from the Liberal caucus, she continued to sit in Parliament as an independent and was reelected in 2019, but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics, she was a BC provincial Crown attorney, a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki
- Occupations
- climate activisttelevision presenterbiologistwriterenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a Canadian environmental activist and writer. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind and take individual responsibility. She is the daughter of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki.
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Rona Ambrose
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronalee Ambrose Veitch PC is a former Canadian politician who was the interim leader of the Conservative Party and the leader of the Opposition between 2015 and 2017. She was the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons for Sturgeon River—Parkland between 2015 and 2017 and had previously represented Edmonton—Spruce Grove from 2004 to 2015.
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Stewart Butterfield
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Daniel Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian billionaire businessman, best known for co-founding the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack.
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Leah Gibson
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Leah Diane Gibson is a Canadian actress.
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Erin Fitzgerald
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorfilm directortelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Erin Fitzgerald is a Canadian voice actress who provides voice-overs for a number of cartoons, video games and English language dubs of Japanese anime. In animation, she voices Raven Queen in Ever After High and C.A. Cupid in both Monster High and Ever After High. In recent roles she voices Bo and other characters in the American children's educational show Ask the StoryBots on Netflix.
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Patty Hajdu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patricia A. Hajdu PC MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of Indigenous services since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, she also serves as the member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North. Previously, she was the minister of status of women, minister of employment, workforce development and labour, and minister of health.
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Stockwell Day
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stockwell Burt Day Jr. PC ECA is a former Canadian politician who served as leader of the Canadian Alliance from 2000 to 2001 and later as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Sam Dunn
- Occupations
- anthropologistfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Sam Dunn is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, musician, and anthropologist, best known for his series of documentaries on heavy metal music. He co-owns Toronto-based production company Banger Films with Scot McFadyen. Dunn holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Victoria and a master's degree from York University where his thesis work focused on Guatemalan refugees.
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Veronica Ivy
- Occupations
- philosopherLGBTQ rights activisttrack cyclisttelevision producer
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Veronica Ivy, formerly Rachel McKinnon, is a Canadian competitive cyclist and transgender rights activist. In 2018, she became the first transgender world track cycling champion by placing first at the UCI Women's Masters Track World Championship for the women's 35–44 age bracket.
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Esi Edugyan
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018).
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Paul Nicklen
- Occupations
- photographerphotojournalistconservationist
- Biography
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Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer, film-maker, author and marine biologist.
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Carla Qualtrough
- Occupations
- swimmerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Carla Dawn Qualtrough PC MP is a Canadian politician and former Paralympic swimmer who served as the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity from July 2023 to December 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, Qualtrough has represented the riding of Delta in the House of Commons since 2015.
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Lori Hallier
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Lori Hallier is a Canadian film, stage, and television actress. She made her film debut in 1981, starring as Sarah Mercer in George Mihalka's slasher film My Bloody Valentine (1981). She subsequently starred in Warning Sign (1985), Night of the Twisters (1996), My Name Is Tanino (2002), and Monte Walsh (2003). Hallier had a recurring role as Shannon Pressman in the television series Santa Barbara (1990). In 2017, Hallier portrayed Alice in the Netflix comedy film Christmas Inheritance.
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Sonia Furstenau
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- politician
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Sonia Furstenau is a Canadian former politician who served leader of the Green Party of British Columbia from 2020 to 2025. She also served as the MLA for Cowichan Valley from 2017 to 2024, after she was defeated when unsuccessfully attempting to switch constituencies.
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Russell Brown
- Occupations
- juristjudge
- Biography
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Russell S. Brown is a former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace outgoing justice Marshall Rothstein and served in the role starting on August 31, 2015. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he was a justice at the Alberta Court of Appeal, and before that a law professor at the University of Alberta. He resigned on June 12, 2023, prior to the completion of an investigation by the Canadian Judicial Council into alleged harassment.
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Eden Robinson
- Enrolled in the University of Victoria
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Eden Victoria Lena Robinson is an Indigenous Canadian author. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.
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Ryan Holmes
- Occupations
- Internet entrepreneurprogrammerrestaurateur
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Ryan Holmes is a Canadian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Hootsuite, a social media management tool for businesses with more than 18 million users and Holmes' fifth startup. Holmes began developing Hootsuite in 2008 through his agency, Invoke Media. He is also the founder of League of Innovators, a charity with a goal of building entrepreneurial acumen for youth, from discovery to acceleration.
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Nathan Hirayama
- Occupations
- rugby sevens playerrugby union player
- Biography
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Nathan Hirayama is a Canadian former rugby player. His primary position was fly-half, however, but he also played fullback. He played for both the Canadian national team and the Canadian sevens team. At club level, Hirayama played for the University of Victoria in the British Columbian Premiership and the BC Bears in the Canadian Rugby Championship.
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Andrew Weaver
- Occupations
- chess playerpoliticianclimatologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Andrew John Weaver OBC is a Canadian scientist and former politician who represented the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head from 2013 to 2020 in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Weaver was the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia from 2015 to 2020. After leaving the Green caucus in January 2020, he continued to sit as an independent member but did not run for reelection in the 2020 BC election.
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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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Gary Lunn
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Gary Vincent Lunn PC is a retired Canadian member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands. He served in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2011, first as a member of the Reform Party of Canada and subsequently as a member of the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party of Canada. He was a Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Official Opposition Critic for Métis and Non-Status Indians, Minister of State for Northern Development, and Critic of the Secretary of State for Human Resources Development. Lunn lost his seat in the 2011 federal election in Canada in an upset to the Leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May.
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Baba Brinkman
- Occupations
- rapperplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Dirk Murray Brinkman is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature, theatre, and science.
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Rob Fleming
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rob Fleming is a Canadian politician who sat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2005 provincial election, when he defeated one-term Liberal Party incumbent, Sheila Orr, until 2024. Initially representing Victoria-Hillside, he was re-elected in subsequent elections in the renamed constituency of Victoria-Swan Lake. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), he was named to the cabinet of British Columbia in July 2017 as Minister of Education, before assuming the post as Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure in November 2020, serving in that position until 2024. Prior to entering provincial politics, he was a city councillor in Victoria, British Columbia from 1999 to 2005.
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Rabbie Namaliu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Rabbie Langanai Namaliu GCL KCMG PC was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as the fourth prime minister of Papua New Guinea from 4 July 1988 to 17 July 1992 as leader of the Pangu Party.
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Carin Bondar
- Occupations
- oratorwriterbiologistfilm director
- Biography
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Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, writer, filmmaker, speaker and television personality. She is a host of Outrageous Acts of Science, Stephen Hawking's Brave New World, and Worlds Oddest Animal Couples.
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Catharine Pendrel
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Catharine Pendrel is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker from Harvey Station, New Brunswick. A member of the Canadian National team since 2004, Pendrel was the world champion in cross-country mountain biking in 2011 and 2014 and the 2007 Pan American Games champion. She is also the current reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Glasgow. Additionally, Pendrel is the 2010 World Cup Champion as well as the winner of the 2012 UCI and 2016 World Cup Series. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Josh Reaume
- Occupations
- racing automobile driver
- Biography
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Joshua Robert Reaume is an American professional stock car racing driver, engineer, and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 22 Ford F-150 for Reaume Brothers Racing.
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Blake Desjarlais
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Blake Desjarlais is a Canadian politician who has represented Edmonton Griesbach in the House of Commons since 2021. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Desjarlais is of Cree and Métis descent, making him Alberta's only Indigenous member of Parliament (MP). He is also the first openly two-spirit individual to serve as an MP.
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Fin Donnelly
- Occupations
- politicianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Fin Donnelly is a Canadian politician. He has served as the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia for the electoral district of Coquitlam-Burke Mountain since 2020, as part of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) caucus. He previously served as member of Parliament (MP) as part of the federal NDP caucus, representing New Westminster—Coquitlam from 2009 to 2015, and Port Moody—Coquitlam from 2015 to 2019.
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Adam Kreek
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Adam Kreek is an author, executive business coach and Canadian rower. He is a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.
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Moe Sihota
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Munmohan Singh "Moe" Sihota is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician. He was the first Canadian of South Asian and Indian descent to be elected to provincial parliament.
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Brent Hodge
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Brent Hodge is a Canadian-New Zealander documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known for his documentaries I Am Chris Farley, A Brony Tale, The Pistol Shrimps, Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary, Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh, Who Let the Dogs Out and Pharma Bro. He has been nominated for six Leo Awards for his documentary movies Winning America, What Happens Next? and A Brony Tale, winning one for A Brony Tale in 2015. He was nominated for two Shorty Awards under the "director" category in 2014 and 2015 for his work on The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions and A Brony Tale. Hodge also won a Canadian Screen Award in 2014 for directing The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions with Grant Lawrence.
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Michael Lee
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Lee is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Vancouver-Langara in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2017 until 2024. A member of the BC United caucus, he served as its Critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. He ran for the party's leadership in 2018 and 2022.
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Tamara Vrooman
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Tamara Rowanne Vrooman, OBC, is a Canadian businesswoman and civil servant who is chair of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. From 2007 until July 2020, she was the CEO of Vancity Credit Union. During the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia, Vrooman left Vancity to accept a position as the president and CEO of Vancouver International Airport and the 12th chancellor of Simon Fraser University. Vrooman was British Columbia's first and youngest female deputy minister of Finance.
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Suzanne Anton
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Suzanne Anton, KC is a Canadian politician and the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of British Columbia. Elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election, Anton represented the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, following a career at the municipal level. She was appointed British Columbia's Attorney General and Minister of Justice on June 10, 2013.
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Brant Pinvidic
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producertelevision producer
- Biography
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Brant Pinvidic is a Canadian film director and television producer, best known for Why I'm Not on Facebook, Why I'm Not on Pokemon GO, Bar Rescue and Extreme Weight Loss. He is the CEO of INvelop Entertainment, host of the podcast Why I'm Not... With Brant Pinvidic, based on the film series of the same name, and a contributing writer for Forbes.
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Phil Mackenzie
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Phil Mackenzie is a retired Canadian rugby union player.
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Kim Pate
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kimberly Pate CM is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from Ontario since November 10, 2016, sitting with the Independent Senators Group (ISG) caucus. Pate was appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Andrew Petter
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrew J. Petter CM OBC KC is a former academic and provincial politician in British Columbia, Canada. He represented the electoral district of Saanich South in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) caucus, he served in various cabinet posts under premiers Mike Harcourt, Glen Clark, Dan Miller and Ujjal Dosanjh, including as Attorney General of British Columbia from February to November 2000.
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Char Davies
- Occupations
- installation artistmultimedia artist
- Biography
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Char Davies is a Canadian contemporary artist known for creating immersive virtual reality (VR) artworks. A founding director of Softimage, Co, she is considered a world leader in the field of virtual reality and a pioneer of bio-feedback VR. Davies is based in rural Quebec and San Francisco.
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Nancy J. Turner
- Occupations
- anthropologistethnobotanist
- Biography
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Nancy Jean Turner CM OBC FRSC FLS is a Canadian ethnobiologist, originally qualified in botany, who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia, the results of which she has documented in a number of books and numerous articles.
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Glen Coulthard
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- scholar
- Biography
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Glen Sean Coulthard is a Canadian scholar of Indigenous studies who serves as an associate professor in the political science department at the University of British Columbia. A member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, he is also a co-founder, educator, and on the board of directors at Dechinta: Centre for Research and Learning. He is best known for his 2014 book, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, which has been released in both English and French.
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Alistair MacGregor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alistair Bruce MacGregor MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election to represent the electoral district of Cowichan—Malahat—Langford. He is a member of the New Democratic Party. During the 42nd Canadian Parliament, MacGregor sponsored three private member bills, though none reached second reading stage: Bill 252 to add Shawnigan Lake to the list of navigable waters regulated under the Navigation Protection Act, Bill C-279 to limit federal election campaigns to a maximum of 46 days, Bill C-430 to create an organic farming tax credit.
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Michael MacLennan
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision producerplaywright
- Biography
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Michael Lewis MacLennan is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as Queer as Folk and Bomb Girls.
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Claudia Chender
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claudia Chender is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has been serving as the leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party since June 25, 2022. She was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2017 general election, representing the electoral district of Dartmouth South. She became Nova Scotia's first female leader of the Opposition on a permanent basis, after her party won the second most seats in the 2024 general election.
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Blair Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Blair Wilson is a Canadian politician and formerly the member of Parliament (MP) in the 39th Canadian parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country electoral district. He was elected on January 23, 2006, in the 2006 federal election as the Liberal candidate. Shortly before the 2008 election was called, Wilson changed his allegiance to the Green Party of Canada, becoming that party's first MP following a period as an independent although an election was called before the House could sit. He subsequently lost the election to Conservative John Weston.
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Richard Weinberger
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Richard Weinberger is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Weinberger won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the 10-kilometre open water marathon. He is the 2011 Pan American Games champion and also has a bronze medal from the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
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Kelsey Ramsden
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Kelsey Ramsden is a Canadian businesswoman. She is the President of Belvedere Place Development and SparkPlay.
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Pamela Rai
- Occupations
- swimmerteacher
- Biography
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Pamela Leila Rai is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer who represented Canada from 1980 to 1987. Rai competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California where she won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, with teammates Anne Ottenbrite, Reema Abdo and Michelle MacPherson. Rai successfully represented Canada at many international meets throughout her career. Other notable accomplishments include University of Victoria Athlete of the Year 1986, City of Victoria Athlete of the Year 1985, 1983 Hapoel Games silver, 1983 Pan American Games silver, and 1986 Commonwealth Games gold medals. From 1984 to 1987 Rai swam for the University of Victoria, where she dominated Canadian university women's swimming. Rai is a retired high school math and social justice teacher and a certified yoga instructor trained in India of the Sivananda lineage. She is an honored inductee to the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Swim BC Hall of Fame, the University of Victoria Legacy Hall of Fame and the Delta Sports Hall of Fame. Rai is the first woman in the world of Indian ancestry, and the first Indo-Canadian to win an Olympic medal.
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Bob D'Eith
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Robert Jan D'Eith KC is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election, defeating two-term Liberal Party incumbent Marc Dalton. He was defeated in 2024. He represented the electoral district of Maple Ridge-Mission as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus. D'Eith is also a pianist, author and part-time music lawyer.
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George Abbott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Abbott is a former politician and cabinet minister for the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, representing the riding of Shuswap from 1996 to 2013. As part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, he served in several cabinet posts under premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark, and ran for party leadership in 2011.
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Colin Hansen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Colin Hansen is a former politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He served as member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2013, representing the electoral district of Vancouver-Quilchena. As a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, he served in a variety of cabinet posts while that party was in power, including as the 11th Deputy Premier from June 2009 to March 2011, and twice as the province's Minister of Finance.
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Tracey Lindberg
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- faculty memberwriterlawyersinger
- Biography
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Tracey Lindberg is a writer, scholar, lawyer and Indigenous Rights activist from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia. She is Cree-Métis and a member of the As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree.
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Brenda Bailey
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brenda Bailey is a Canadian businesswoman and politician who currently serves as a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of Vancouver-False Creek from 2020 to 2024, and Vancouver-South Granville since 2024. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, she has been a cabinet minister under Premier David Eby since 2022, currently serving as Minister of Finance of British Columbia.
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Barry Penner
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Barry Penner, KC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician in the province of British Columbia. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA), representing the riding of Chilliwack from 1996 to 2001, Chilliwack-Kent from 2001 to 2009, and Chilliwack-Hope from 2009 to 2012. A caucus member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, he served in several cabinet posts under premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark, including as Minister of Environment, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, and Attorney General.
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Aman Singh
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Aman Singh is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Richmond-Queensborough in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2020 until 2024, as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. He is the first turban-wearing Sikh to be elected Member of the Legislative Assembly in BC.
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Eve Egoyan
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Eve Egoyan is an Armenian-Canadian pianist and artist based in Toronto.
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Dean Fortin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dean Fortin served as mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, from 2008 to 2014.
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Heather Wurtele
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Heather Wurtele is a retired Canadian professional triathlete who raced long-distance, non-drafting triathlon events. She achieved over 60 career professional triathlon podium finishes and 30 plus career wins, including 25 half iron distance wins and 7 Ironman wins. Her career highlights include placing third at the 2016 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, second at the 2015 Ironman 70.3 World Championship and third at the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. She also placed 3rd at the ITU Long Course World Championships in 2017 and won the North American 70.3 Championships in 2015 and 2016.
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Christoper Ragan
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Christopher Thomas Southgate Ragan is a Canadian academic and economist. He has published extensive research on macroeconomics and monetary policy. Ragan is the inaugural director of McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy, where he also teaches core macroeconomic and microeconomic policy courses. He is the former chair of Canada's Ecofiscal Commission, a group of Canadian economists that sought to broaden the discussion of environmental pricing reform beyond the academic sphere and into the realm of practical policy application.
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Ryan C.N. D'Arcy
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Ryan C.N. D'Arcy is a Canadian neuroscientist, researcher, innovator and entrepreneur. D'Arcy co-founded HealthTech Connex Inc. where he serves as President and Chief Scientific Officer. HealthTech Connex translates neuroscience advancements into health technology breakthroughs. D'Arcy is most known for coining the term "brain vital signs" and for leading the research and development of the brain vital signs framework.
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Lynn Hunter
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lynn Hunter was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. Her background prior to election included graduating with distinction in Political Science and History from the University of Victoria in 1985. She then went on to become the Vancouver Island Coordinator for OXFAM Canada, work which included a fact finding trip to Sudan and Eritrea in 1986 to assess the effects of the war and famine in that region.
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Eric Hedlin
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Eric Hedlin is a Canadian long-distance swimmer. Hedlin won a silver medal in the men's open water 5 km swim at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.
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Sharon Blady
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sharon Anne Blady /ˈbleɪdi/ is a former provincial politician in the Canadian province of Manitoba. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2007 provincial election in the constituency of Kirkfield Park. She was defeated in the 2016 provincial election. Blady is a member of the New Democratic Party. Prior to her election, she was an instructor of social work and native studies at the University of Manitoba.
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Graeme Bowbrick
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Graeme Bowbrick KC is a Canadian lawyer, educator and former politician. A faculty member in the criminology department at Simon Fraser University, he previously represented the riding of New Westminster in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1996 to 2001. As part of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus, he served as Minister of Advanced Education, Training and Technology as well as Minister responsible for Youth in 2000, and as Attorney General and Minister responsible for Human Rights from 2000 to 2001.
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Jacinta Ruru
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- academiclawyer
- Biography
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Jacinta Arianna Ruru MNZM FRSNZ is a New Zealand academic and the first Māori professor of law. Ruru is currently a professor at the University of Otago.
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Eliza Robertson
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Eliza K. Robertson is a Canadian writer.
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Melanie McQuaid
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Melanie McQuaid is a Canadian triathlete. Competing in primarily XTERRA Triathlon, or cross triathlon, she has won three XTERRA World Championships as well as the ITU Cross Triathlon World Championship in 2011 and 2017. McQuaid also races in half-iron and Ironman 70.3 triathlon events, with half a dozen wins at this distance.
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Louise Edwards
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 47)
- Enrolled in the University of Victoria
- In 2001 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Louise Olivia Violet Edwards is a Canadian astronomer and associate professor of physics at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and is one of the first Black Canadians to receive a PhD in astronomy. In 2002, she was pictured on a Canadian stamp.
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James Hoggan
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- businesspersonconsultantwriter
- Biography
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James "Jim" Hoggan is an author and president of Hoggan and Associates, a Vancouver-based public-relations firm. He is also the co-founder of the Web site DeSmogBlog.
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Gary Birch
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Dr. Gary Birch, OC OBC is a Canadian Paralympian, an expert in brain–computer interface technology and executive director of the Neil Squire Society. In 1975, Dr. Birch was involved in an automobile accident which resulted in injuries to the C6 and C7 area of his spine making him a low-level quadriplegic. He was one of the original players of Murderball (wheelchair rugby), and won several medals in the 1980 Summer Paralympics in the Netherlands. In 2008, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He continues to champion accessibility through his Research and Development work in assistive technologies at the University of British Columbia, the Rick Hansen Institute, and the Neil Squire Society.
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Imogen Coe
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- biochemistresearcher
- Biography
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Imogen Ruth Coe is a British-born biochemist. Educated in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Coe has taught at York University in Canada. She is a professor of biochemistry and founding dean of the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (previously Ryerson University) in Toronto.
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Daniel Gawthrop
- Occupations
- newspaper editor
- Biography
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Daniel Gawthrop is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of six books, most recently a novel, Double Karma, published in 2023. He is best known for The Trial of Pope Benedict and The Rice Queen Diaries. As a journalist, he was the original publisher and editor of Xtra! West in Vancouver, and has also contributed to publications including the Vancouver Sun, The Economist, The Georgia Straight, Quill & Quire, Canadian Forum and The Tyee. He now works as a communications representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. and is an occasional contributor to British Columbia Review.
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Connor Gaston
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Connor Gaston is a Canadian film director based in British Columbia, known for making films with religious themes.
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Kayla Czaga
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Kayla Czaga is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection For Your Safety Please Hold On. The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award.
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Owen Underhill
- Occupations
- composerpedagogueconductor
- Biography
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Owen Underhill is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor to the new music scene on the West Coast, as a flutist, as co-music director of Western Front New Music (1982-3), as the artistic director (1987–2000) of the Vancouver New Music Society, and as a conductor in Magnetic Band and the Turning Point Ensemble, for which he is also currently the Artistic Co-Director.
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Kelley Lee
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Kelley Lee is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance and Professor of Global Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She has studied the impact of globalisation on public health, with a particular focus on the tobacco industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic Lee initiated and led the Pandemics and Borders Project to understand effective ways to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through the effective use of travel measures.
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Tony James
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Tony D. James FRSC is a chemist who is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath and recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
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Rick Leong
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Richard Taryn Leong is a Canadian artist working primarily in painting and drawing. He is represented by Parisian Laundry in Montreal.
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Neil Squire
- Years
- 1959-1984 (aged 25)
- Biography
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Neil Squire was an accounting student at the University of Victoria and a basketball player. After a car accident left him a high level tetraplegic, his efforts to learn a new form of communication became the inspiration for the creation of the Neil Squire Society.
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G. W. Stephen Brodsky
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.
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Cameron Zubko
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Cameron Zubko is a Canadian businessman and investor. Zubko is co-founder of Ice Wireless, a Canadian 4G/LTE telecommunications company.
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Diana Burgoyne
- Occupations
- installation artist
- Biography
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Diana Burgoyne is a Canadian artist known for her installations and performance works using handmade electronics.
