- Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean, CC, CMM, COM, CD, DUniv ("honoris causa"), DLitt ("honoris causa"), LLD ("honoris causa"), (born September 6, 1957, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the current Governor General of Canada. Jean was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin, to succeed Adrienne Clarkson and become the 27th governor general of Canada since Confederation in 1867. - Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album "Come on Over" is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, … - Robert Fulford
Robert Fulford, O.C., (born February 13, 1932) is a Canadian journalist, sometime editor and essayist. He was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto. Fulford began his career in journalism in the summer of 1950 when he left high school and went to work for "The Globe and Mail" as a sports reporter. Subsequently, Fulford rose to various editorial positions at the newspaper before working as a columnist for "The Toronto Star" (1959-1962, 1964-1968 and 1971-1987). - Lloyd Robertson
Lloyd Robertson, LL.D O.C. (born January 19, 1934 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada) is the Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of "The CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson." - Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ, LLD (born March 20, 1939), was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. According to Canadian protocol, as a former Prime Minister, he is styled "The Right Honourable" for life. - Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (18 October, 1919 – 28 September, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April, 1968 to 4 June, 1979, and from 3 March, 1980 to 30 June, 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, … - Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Poy, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, LL.D "(honoris causa)" (born February 10, 1939) is an accomplished Canadian journalist. From October 7, 1999 to September 27, 2005 she served as the 26th Governor General of Canada (representing Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada): she was the first Chinese Canadian (although she does not speak Chinese) and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé. - David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D (born March 24 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid 1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, "The Nature of Things", seen in syndication in over 40 nations. - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, O.Ont. (b. August 15, 1925, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Oscar Peterson is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest jazz piano players of all time. His virtuosity and command of the piano have routinely stunned audiences worldwide for more than fifty years. - Jeffrey Simpson
Jeffrey Carl Simpson, is a renowned and successful Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he has been "The Globe and Mail"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s national affairs columnist, and has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. - Terry Fox
Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC (July 28, 1958 - June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, running with one prosthetic leg. He is considered one of Canada's greatest heroes of the 20th century and is celebrated internationally every September as people participate in the Terry Fox Run, … - Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, usually known as Jean Chrétien, PC, CC, QC, BA, BCL, LLD (h.c.) (born January 11, 1934), served as the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003. He was also the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003. - Peter C. Newman
Peter Charles Newman, C.C., C.D., M.Comm., LL.D (born May 10 1929) is a Canadian journalist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His father, Peter, was a wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, where he was a member of Seaton's House, and the University of Toronto. He has been a reporter for the "Financial Post", served as editor of the "Toronto Star", … - Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record. - Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album "Songs of Leonard Cohen") were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. - Victor Davis
Victor Davis, CM (February 10, 1964-November 13, 1989) was a Canadian Olympic and world champion swimmer, the greatest breaststroker Canada has ever produced. He also enjoyed success in the individual medley and the butterfly. - Allan Gotlieb
Allan Ezra Gotlieb, CC, LL.D, LL.B, MA (born February 28, 1928) is a Canadian public servant and author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gotlieb received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley, his MA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and his LL.B degree from Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1957 he joined the Department of External Affairs. From 1967 to 1968 he was assistant undersecretary and legal adviser. - Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born 26 January 1961 in Brantford, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently part-owner and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. Nicknamed "The Great One," "Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL" calls Gretzky "the greatest player of all time." He is generally regarded as the best player of his era and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters, … - Mavor Moore
James Mavor Moore, CC, OBC, BA, D.Litt (March 8, 1919 - December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Francis John Moore, an Anglican theologian, and Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s and 1940s, Moore graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1941. During World War II, he was an intelligence officer. - Elizabeth May
Elizabeth Evans May, LL.B, DHumL (h.c.), OC (born June 9, 1954) is the current leader of the Green Party of Canada. She is also an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. She was the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. May lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her daughter, Victoria Cate May, born in 1991. - Dora Mavor Moore
Dora Mavor Moore (8 April 1888 - 15 May 1979) was a Canadian actor, teacher and director who was a pioneer of Canadian theater. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she moved with her family to Toronto in 1894, when her father James Mavor (1854-1925) became a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. In 1915 she married Francis Moore, an Army Chaplain, but separated from him in 1928. She had three sons: Francis, Mavor Moore, and James. - Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are "Reckless", "18 til I Die", and "Waking Up the Neighbours". Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for his contribution to popular music and his philanthropic work. He was also inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, … - Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC, CC, AOE, MA, LLD (born June 5, 1939) was the sixteenth prime minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980. Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He came to power in the 1979 election, defeating Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule, … - Margaret Atwood
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years, Atwood has written more than twenty volumes of verse, novels, and nonfiction. Although she is noted for all of these volumes, she is better known for her novels. In these work of fiction, themes such as feminism, mythology and power of language pervade. - Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and the "global village". - David Ahenakew
David Ahenakew (born July 28, 1933) is a Canadian First Nations politician, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He came to national and international attention in December 2002, after telling a reporter from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix that Jews were a disease and that Hitler was trying to "clean up the world" when he "fried six million of those guys." In connection with the remarks, which were made on tape with his knowledge, … - Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier, CC, GOQ, Ph.D. (born September 10, 1928) is the founder of L'Arche, an international organization that creates communities where people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them share life together. - Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada. - Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles Pearson, often referred to as "Mike", PC, OM, CC, OBE, MA, LL.D. (April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, until April 20, 1968, as the head of two back-to-back minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965. - Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, C.C. (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He is currently Social Science Scholar-in-Residence at McMaster University, having recently completed his term as United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former federal New Democratic Party leader David Lewis, he attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. - Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mitchell's singing, over several decades, began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. - Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr., CC, O.Ont, LL.D (hon.) (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian folk singer, composer, lyricist and poet. - Preston Manning
Ernest Preston Manning, CC (born June 10, 1942, in Edmonton, Alberta), is a right-wing populist Canadian politician. He was the first and only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance. He sat in Parliament for this party until retirement, after which it in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada. - Anne Murray
Anne Murray, CC, ONS (born Morna Anne Murray June 20, 1945), is a Canadian singer born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, known for her rich alto voice and her taste in choosing songs that appeal to Pop, Country and Adult Contemporary listeners alike. For many, her fame as the representative Canadian singer is rivalled only by Gordon Lightfoot. Unlike many internationally-renowned Canadian singers, she has always resided in Canada and now lives in Toronto, … - Catriona Le May Doan
Catriona Ann Le May Doan, O.C. (born December 23, 1970) is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m. The proper pronunciation of her first name is "Kah-TREE-nah". Born In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Scottish ancestry, Le May Doan won the Olympic 500 m title at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving rise to the title "the fastest woman on ice". - Hazel McCallion
Opening comments and opinions - more at end. It is Hazel's standard MODUS OPERANDI to have articles about her in major magazines or news papers during an election year. I think her friends in the media like to save her the cost and need to actually running an election campaign. If they can hype the dear old lady enough, people will not ask intelligent questions about how she wheels power and just re-elect her out of habit (no thinking required). - Dal Richards
Dal Richards, CM, OBC, is a legendary Canadian big band leader, also known as the King of Swing, a famous Vancouverite, a recipient of the Order of Canada and living legend of the Big Band Era. According to the "Greater Vancouver Book", an urban encyclopedia (Editor in Chief: Chuck Davis), Dal Richards led his band for many years in a weekly CBC Radio show broadcast nationally from the Panorama Roof Ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver. - Karen Kain
Karen Kain, CC (born on March 28, 1951) is a Canadian ballet dancer. Kain was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Her mother started her in ballet because she believed it would improve her daughter's posture, poise, and discipline. Kain began training at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto in 1962. After graduation in 1969, she was invited to join the National Ballet of Canada. She became principal dancer in 1971, dancing central roles in a wide array of ballets, …
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