- 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 Naylor
Christopher David Naylor, D.Phil, MD (born 1954 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto. A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. - Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard. - Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the United States. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resister (draft dodger) and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her anti-pornography film, "Not a Love Story". Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. - John Kirton
John Kirton is the Director of the G8 research group at the University of Toronto, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. John Kirton received his B.A. in Political Science in 1971 from the University of Toronto, his M.A. in International Affairs in 1973 from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. in International Studies in 1977 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. - Bora Laskin
Bora Laskin, PC, CC, LL.M, LL.B, MA, FRSC (October 5, 1912 - March 17, 1984) was a Canadian jurist, who served on the Supreme Court of Canada for fourteen years, including a decade as its Chief Justice. - 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. - Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman, FRSC (b. 1942) directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. His overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to "networked individualism". He has written more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books. - Leslie Dan
Leslie Lewis Dan, CM, O.Ont, MBA, LL.D, B.Sc (born November 26, 1929) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Born in Budapest, Dan came to Canada in 1947. He survived World War II by using false identity papers. He graduated from the University of Toronto School of Pharmacy in 1954 obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Master of Business Administration degree in 1959. In 1960, he founded a company which distributed over-the-counter drugs. - Steve Mann
Steve Mann is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. - Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956 in Victoria, British Columbia) is the Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Homer-Dixon was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1956, and was raised in a rural area outside Victoria. He received his B.A. in political science from Carleton University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 1989, … - Mark Kingwell
Mark Kingwell, MLitt, M.Phil, PhD (March 1, 1963- in Toronto) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. He specialises in theories of politics and culture. He studied at the University of Toronto, editing The Varsity through 1983 to 1984 and the "University of Toronto Review" from 84-85. He received his BA from the University of St. Michael's College with High Distinction in 1985, … - John Smith
John Smith (born 1927) is a Canadian poet. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith earned a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto. He then studied philosophy in London, and returned to Toronto to earn an MA in English. Smith remained in Toronto and taught high school English for seven years. Later, he moved to Prince Edward Island to teach at Prince of Wales College. He served a term as Dean of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, … - Andrew Coyne
Andrew Coyne is a Canadian journalist and columnist with the "National Post". He studied at the University of Toronto's University of Trinity College, receiving a BA in Economics and History, and he received his Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. After a stint as a columnist for the "Financial Post" from 1985 to 1991, Coyne joined the editorial board of "The Globe and Mail". - Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC (November 14, 1891 - February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin. Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto and graduating in 1916, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He won the Military Cross during the war. - Harold Innis
Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communication theory. - Steve Paikin
Steve Paikin , is anchor and senior editor of The Agenda with Steve Paikin . The flagship current affairs program of TV Ontario, the world's largest educational television network, debuted in September 2006. Its mission is to cover the provincial, national, and international issues viewers must know, to be well-informed citizens of Ontario at the dawn of the 21st century. Previously, he co-hosted Studio 2 for 12 seasons (1994-2006). - Michael Bryant
Michael J. Bryant (born 1966 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of St. Paul's for the Ontario Liberal Party, and is the Attorney General in the government of Dalton McGuinty. Bryant received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1988, and a Master's Degree from the same institution in 1989. - Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world. - George Elliott
George Elliott (1923 - 18 May 1996) was a Canadian novelist. Born in London, Ontario, Elliott attended the University of Toronto, where he was an editor for the student newspaper, "The Varsity". He later became editor of the "Strathroy Age-Dispatch", in Strathroy, Ontario, and was that community's correspondent for the "London Free Press". He later became a reporter and editor with the "Timmins Daily Press". - George Ignatieff
George Ignatieff, CC, MA, DCL (December 16 1913 - August 10 1989) was a Canadian diplomat and was the recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in international service. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of five sons, to a distinguished Russian family. His mother was Princess Natasha Mestchersky and his father was Count Paul Ignatieff, a close advisor to Tsar Nicholas II serving as his last Minister of Education. - Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. - Bev Oda
Beverley Joan Oda PC, BA, MP (born July 27, 1944 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Durham for the Conservative Party of Canada. She was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women on February 6, 2006. Oda has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She began her broadcasting career at TV Ontario in 1973, … - Gideon Koren
Gideon Koren, MD, FACMT, FRCP(C) (born 1947) is a Canadian pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist, and toxicologist. - Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, OC (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Canadian-Armenian film maker. His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy or other power structures. Stylistically, Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot-structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. - Michael Wilson
Michael Holcombe Wilson, PC <small>OC</small> (born November 4, 1937) is a Canadian diplomat, politician and business leader. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Wilson attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he joined the Kappa Alpha Society, and the London School of Economics. - E. J. Pratt
Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC (February 4, 1882 - April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet from Newfoundland. Born in Western Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Pratt grew up in a variety of Newfoundland communities in Newfoundland, as his Methodist minister father was posted to various communities around the colony. Pratt himself was also ordained as a Methodist minister, but never served in the church. - Kathleen Wynne
Kathleen O. Wynne is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Don Valley West for the Liberal Party. Wynne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, a Master of Arts degree in linguistics from the University of Toronto (1980) and a Master of Education degree in adult education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. - Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen, PC, QC, BA, LL.D (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and also the first (and to date only) to represent a riding in Manitoba (notwithstanding that he was born and lived most of his life in Ontario). Both of his terms of office were brief, … - Bruce Mau
Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries. Bruce Mau studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, but left prior to graduation in order to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. He stayed there for two years, before crossing the ocean for a brief sojourn at Pentagram in the UK. Returning to Toronto a year later, … - Margaret MacMillan
Margaret Olwen MacMillan OC D.Phil. (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at Oxford University where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. A well-respected expert on history and current affairs, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the media. - Stephen Clarkson
Stephen Clarkson, Ph.d, FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian political scientist. He is currently a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. He was educated at Upper Canada College, graduating in 1955. He was married to Adrienne Clarkson, later to become a CBC Television broadcaster and Governor General of Canada, from 1963 to 1975. - Eric Arthur
Eric Ross Arthur, C.C. (July 1, 1898 - November 1, 1982) was a Canadian architect, writer and educator. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand and educated in England, he served in World War I with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He emigrated to Canada in 1923 to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. During the Centennial of the City of Toronto, in 1934, Arthur was on the "Toronto's Hundred Years" Publication Committee, which published "Toronto's 100 Years". - Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove is the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, author of "The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence" and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. - Kim Vicente
Kim Vicente is a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is researcher, teacher, and author in the field of human factors. He is best known for his two books: "The Human Factor" and "Cognitive Work Analysis". - Charles Best
Dr. Charles Herbert Best, CC (February 27, 1899 - March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. He was born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA to Canadian parents. While a 22-year-old student studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played a role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin-one of the most significant advances in medicine at the time, enabling an effective treatment of diabetes. - Michael Bliss
Professor Michael Bliss, CM, Ph.D, FRSC (born 1941) is a Canadian historian and public intellectual, considered by some to be "outspoken". Bliss entered the University of Toronto in 1958, and has been there ever since. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. there and since 1969 has been a professor in the department of history. One time a student asked him how long he had been at the U of T. "All my life," he said a bit mournfully. - Bernard Lonergan
Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (17 December 1904 - 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit Priest. He was a philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition and an economist from Buckingham, Quebec. He taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now Concordia University), the University of Toronto (Regis College), the Pontifical Gregorian University and Boston College. He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology(1973), … - Bryon Wilfert
Bryon J. Wilfert, PC, MP, BA, BEd, MA (born July 14, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Richmond Hill for the Liberal Party. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment until the defeat of the Martin government in the 2006 federal election. Wilfert has Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Toronto, … - John Roberts
John D. Roberts (born November 15, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television journalist for CNN, where he is a co-anchor of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning. He anchors from Washington and New York. He also served as the second anchor of This Week at War and served as the Senior National Correspondent based in Washington, DC. He has also substituted for Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360".
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