Famous Carleton University Alumni
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People on this list must have gone to Carleton University and be of some renown.
List of famous alumni from Carleton University, with photos when available. Prominent graduates from Carleton University include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished Carleton University alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Carleton University are at the top of the list. This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from Carleton University.
Examples of graduates on this list: Dan Aykroyd, Norm Macdonald and more.
This list answers the questions “Which famous people went to Carleton University?” and “Which celebrities are Carleton University alumni?”- Dan Aykroyd hails from Ottawa, Canada, where he was born on July 1, 1952. The son of Lorraine Hélène and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, his early life was steeped in eccentricity; his father was a policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and his mother, a secretary. This unique upbringing, coupled with his fascination with spiritualism, ghosts, and police work, laid the groundwork for his later career and interests. Aykroyd's career trajectory took a significant turn when he joined the Second City Comedy Troupe in Toronto during the early 1970s. His time there allowed him to hone his comedic skills and led to his discovery by Lorne Michaels, who cast him in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1975. During his tenure on SNL, Aykroyd co-created several memorable characters, including Beldar Conehead and Elwood Blues, and earned an Emmy Award for writing. His knack for comedy did not go unnoticed, and he transitioned to the big screen, most notably starring in the cult classic Ghostbusters, a film inspired by his own interest in the paranormal. Aside from his pursuits in acting and comedy, Aykroyd has also made his mark as a businessman and musician. He co-founded the House of Blues, a chain of music venues, to celebrate the rich history of blues music. In addition, he launched Crystal Head Vodka, a brand known for its distinctive skull-shaped bottles and pure spirit. As a member of the Blues Brothers, a band he formed with fellow SNL cast member John Belushi, Aykroyd further showcased his musical talents. Despite the diverse range of his career, Aykroyd's contributions to comedy remain his most recognized achievement.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Born in Quebec City, Norm Macdonald embarked on a journey that would make him one of the most unique and influential voices in comedy. After starting his career in stand-up clubs across Canada, his sharp wit and distinctive style soon caught the attention of the bigwigs in Hollywood. A move to the U.S. led to a coveted spot on Saturday Night Live where he served as host of the "Weekend Update" segment for three years. His dry, acerbic humor and unapologetic delivery quickly made him a fan favorite. Macdonald's talents extended beyond stand-up and sketch comedy. He successfully transitioned into acting with roles in television series such as The Norm Show and movies like Dirty Work. His distinct voice was also recognized in animated films and series like Dr. Dolittle series and Fairly Odd Parents. Besides acting, he wrote for popular comedy shows including "Roseanne", showcasing his multifaceted talent in the entertainment industry. Despite his success, Macdonald never veered from his unique comedic style that often pushed boundaries and challenged societal norms. His dedication to his craft, combined with his knack for observing the absurdities of life, cemented his place as an icon in the world of comedy.
- Age: Dec. at 61 (1959-2021)
- Birthplace: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC (January 19, 1931 – April 12, 2024) was a Canadian-American journalist and writer. A television news anchor, he partnered with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.
- Age: Dec. at 93 (1931-2024)
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. He dropped out of high school, yet he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists. Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at age 9. He began his professional career with CJOH-TV in Ottawa during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting the teen dance show Saturday Date on Saturdays. In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. Critics and others in the television news business attacked his inexperience, making his job difficult. He became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from the Middle East. Jennings returned as one of World News Tonight's three anchormen in 1978, and he was promoted to sole anchorman in 1983. He was also known for his marathon coverage of breaking news stories, staying on the air for 15 hours or more to anchor the live broadcast of events such as the Gulf War in 1991, the Millennium celebrations in 2000, and the September 11 attacks in 2001. In addition to anchoring, he was the host of many ABC News special reports and moderated several American presidential debates. He was always fascinated with the United States and became an American citizen in 2003. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.
- Age: Dec. at 67 (1938-2005)
- Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ryan M. North (born October 20, 1980) is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog. He has been the writer of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics since the series debuted in January 2015.
- Age: 44
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Christina A Gold
Businesspersons the president and chief executive officer for The Western Union Company, Christina Gold is responsible for the financial and overall operational performance of the $4.9 billion company - a worldwide leader in money transfer, bill payment and prepaid services. Based at Western Union's global headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, Gold has executive management oversight of a network of over 345,000 Agent locations in more than 200 countries and territories. In addition, she oversees an employee base of over 6,000 people located in 47 countries. Prior to joining Western Union in May 2002, Gold was president and chief executive officer of telecommunications and e-commerce services provider Excel Communications. She also had a distinguished career with Avon where she served as president, Avon North America, and was credited with a significant turnaround of the cosmetic brand's U.S. business. Ms. Gold was recognized in 2003 and 2006 by Fortune magazine as one of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Gold was recognized in 2007 by Forbes magazine as #56 on its annual 100 Most Powerful Women list. BusinessWeek also named her as one of the top 25 U.S. managers in 1996. Gold serves on the board of directors of ITT Corporation and New York Life, and is a member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and Global 50. Gold is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa. She received the Award of Distinction - Faculty of Commerce Administration from Concordia University in Montreal. She also received the Batisseur, an honorary degree from the Professional Business School of Montreal, in recognition of her distinguished service to the business community.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Canada
Michelle Douglas
Michelle Douglas (born 1963) is a Canadian human rights activist who was involved in a landmark case around lesbian and gay equality rights in the Canadian military.Douglas was born in Ottawa, Ontario. After graduating from Carleton University in 1985, Douglas joined the Canadian Forces in 1986, and was soon promoted to the Special Investigations Unit, which was responsible for outing suspected homosexuals. In 1988, however, she came under investigation, was transferred to another position and lost her security clearance. In 1989 she was released from the forces because she was a lesbian, despite having an exemplary service record and repeatedly being at the top of her class. She was dismissed under administrative release item 5d: "Not Advantageously Employable Due to Homosexuality". During her trial, Douglas reported that during the investigation she was taken to a hotel room where two men questioned her about her sexual activities. She was also prevented from seeking legal advice.Douglas subsequently launched a $550,000 lawsuit against the Department of National Defence in January 1990 where she was represented by Clayton Ruby. In October 1992, just before Douglas' legal challenge went to trial, the Canadian military abandoned its policy banning gays and lesbians and settled the case.Douglas went on to be the founding president of the Foundation for Equal Families, and later served at chair of the board of The 519 Church Street Community Centre in Toronto. Since 2005, Douglas has served on the Canadian board of directors of Free the Children. She was in a relationship with journalist Irshad Manji for several years, although they broke up in 2008. A portrait of Douglas, by artist Laura Spaldin, is held by the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives' National Portrait Collection, in honour of her role as a significant builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada.- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
- Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG (born August 25, 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. In 2007, he was convicted on four counts of fraud in U.S. District Court in Chicago. While two of the criminal fraud charges were dropped on appeal, a conviction for felony fraud and obstruction of justice were upheld in 2010 and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison and a fine of $125,000. In 2018, he wrote a glowing book about President Donald Trump. On May 15, 2019, he was granted a full pardon by Trump.Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), most of the leading newspapers in Australia and Canada and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets.
- Age: 80
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Upon investigating allegations about sexual misconduct by Krauss, ASU determined that he had violated university policy and removed him from the Origins Project directorship in July 2018. He continued as a Professor at ASU until retiring in May 2019. He currently serves as President of The Origins Project Foundation and as host of The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss . Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science education. An atheist, Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Eric C.R. Hehner, called Rick, is a Canadian computer scientist. He was born on 16 September 1947 in Ottawa. He studied mathematics and physics at Carleton University, graduating in 1969. He gained a PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto in 1974. He then joined the faculty there, becoming a full professor in 1983. He became the Bell University Chair in Software Engineering in 2001, and retired in 2012. Hehner's main research area is formal methods of software design. His method, initially called predicative programming, later called Practical Theory of Programming, is to consider each specification to be a binary (boolean) expression, and each programming construct to be a binary expression specifying the effect of executing the programming construct. Refinement is just implication. This is the simplest formal method, and the most general, applying to sequential, parallel, stand-alone, communicating, terminating, nonterminating, natural-time, real-time, deterministic, and probabilistic programs, and includes time and space bounds. This idea has influenced other computer science researchers, including Tony Hoare. Hehner's other research areas include probabilistic programming, unified algebra, and high-level circuit design. In 1979, Hehner invented a generalization of radix complement called quote notation, which is a representation of the rational numbers that allows easier arithmetic and produces no roundoff error.- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Michael Prue
Politician, CriticMichael David Prue (born July 14, 1948) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. Prue was mayor of East York, Ontario from 1993 to 1997 and subsequently represented the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2001 to 2014 as member of the New Democratic Party (NDP)'s Queen's Park caucus. He was a candidate in the 2009 Ontario NDP leadership election, finishing in fourth place. In 2018, he was elected to the town council of Amherstburg, Ontario where he now lives.- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Paul Ferreira
Politician, Public Relations ExecutivePaul Ferreira (born January 7, 1973) is a Canadian populist politician and one of the first openly gay politicians elected to provincial office in Canada. He also has the distinction of being the very first Azorean-Canadian MPP. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) in the February 8, 2007 York South–Weston by-election, but was narrowly defeated in the 2007 general election. He subsequently served as chief of staff to party leader Howard Hampton until Hampton's retirement from that position in 2009. He later worked as a special assistant to leader Andrea Horwath. On Feb. 8, 2011, Ferreira was acclaimed as the Ontario NDP's candidate in York South-Weston in the 2011 provincial election. Ferreira left the NDP in 2016 stating that the party had become "fundamentally dishonest" and that "the party has "lost its way" by erecting "reactionary" roadblocks against highway tolls."- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Archipelago of the Azores, Portugal
- Tina Srebotnjak is a Canadian radio and television journalist.
- Birthplace: Slovenia
- John Paul Manley (born January 5, 1950) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004, and was deputy prime minister between 2002 and 2003. From January 2010 until October 2018 he was President and CEO of the Business Council of Canada. He currently serves on the advisory board of the and on the Leaders' Debates Commission.
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
John Milloy
PoliticianJohn Christopher Milloy (born June 29, 1965) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2014 who represented the riding of the Kitchener Centre. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Guelph, Kitchener, Canada
- Thomas Homer-Dixon (born 1956) is a Canadian political scientist and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo in the Faculty of Environment, and a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Victoria, Canada
- John James Kirton (born 1948) is a professor of political science and the director and co-founder of the G7 Research Group, co-director (with Alan Alexandroff and Donald Brean) and founder of the G20 Research Group, founder and co-director (with James Orbinski) of the Global Health Diplomacy Program, and founder and co-founder (with Marina Larionova of the National Research University - Higher School of Economics) of the BRICS Research Group, all housed at the Munk School of Global Affairs at University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. Since 2016, he has served as interim director of the International Relations Program at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He 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 Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in Canadian foreign policy, the G7, G8, G20, BRICS and global governance, global health governance, and trade and the environment. As a scholar of Canadian foreign policy, Kirton pioneered the complex neo-realist theory of Canada's emergence as a principal power in the world through his major books, Canada as a Principal Power (co-written with David Dewitt) and Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World. In the field of trade and environment, Kirton led the multinational, multidisciplinary team that developed an analytical framework for assessing the environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and identified the many ways in which the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, North America's first regional organization of consequence, enhanced ecological quality throughout the region and beyond. He has also served as a member of Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. The author or editor of more than 35 books, Kirton is the editor of the Global Governance book series as well as co-editor (with Miranda Schreurs) of the Global Environmental Governance book series published by Routledge Publishing; he was also co-editor (with Michele Fratianni and Paolo Savona) of the Global Finance series published by Ashgate Publishing. He is co-editor of several publications on the G7/8 and G20 published by Newsdesk Media. He is active in various volunteer activities, and serves on the board of the NATO Council of Canada (formerly The Atlantic Council of Canada). He was a member of the board of the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs for many years until 2013.
- James A. Bertrand, is a vice president of Delphi Corporation and president of Delphi Automotive Holdings Group as well as president of Delphi Thermal Systems. He is also a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, and the executive champion for the Corporation's Customer Satisfaction Task Team.
- Age: 68
- Ike Jonathan Awgu (born October 14, 1983) is a Canadian broadcaster, columnist and lawyer. Awgu was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. At the age of 19 he ran for Mayor in the 2003 municipal election, and finished third out of eight candidates with 2.92% of the vote. He planned on running for city council in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election in Bay Ward, but dropped out after sitting councillor Alex Cullen declared his intention for running for re-election.After the municipal election, he became an editorial columnist for the Ottawa Sun newspaper. He went on to host X-Factor, a politics-oriented national television show on CPAC, in the summer of 2004. He has also been a columnist for The Globe and Mail newspaper. Ike Awgu studied economics and law at Carleton University before going on to earn a law degree from Queen's University in 2008. In 2004 Awgu finished 4th place at the Canadian National Debating Championship. Awgu returned to Ottawa in 2009 and is currently a lawyer and blogger with the Huffington Post. He has also made frequent appearances on HuffPost Live and has appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
- Age: 41
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Wilbert Keon
PhysicianWilbert Joseph Keon (May 17, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was a Canadian physician. A heart surgeon and researcher by profession, Keon was a longtime Canadian senator.- Age: 89
- Birthplace: Sheenboro, Canada
Paul Okalik
PoliticianPaul Okalik (Inuktitut: ᐹᓪ ᐅᑲᓕᖅ, IPA: [paːl ukaliq]; born May 26, 1964) is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk to have been called to the Nunavut Bar and the first Premier of Nunavut. On November 4, 2010, he was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. Okalik represented the electoral district of Iqaluit West in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut until April 6, 2011 when he announced he would be resigning in order to run for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Nunavut in the 2011 Canadian federal election. He returned to the Legislative Assembly in 2013 until being defeated in the 2017 general election.- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Pangnirtung, Canada
Jim Watson
PoliticianJames Alexander Watson (born July 30, 1961) is the current mayor of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was a former Ottawa city councillor (1991–1997) and mayor (1997–2000), and subsequently represented the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2010. He served in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty in the portfolios of Consumer and Business Services (2003 - 2005), Health Promotion (2005 - 2007), and Municipal Affairs and Housing (2007 - 2010). He resigned in January 2010 to successfully run for mayor in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election. He was subsequently re-elected mayor on October 27, 2014 and on October 22, 2018. On August 17, 2019, in an op-ed to the Ottawa Citizen, Watson announced that he was coming out of the closet, becoming Ottawa's first openly gay mayor.- Age: 63
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Peter Hume
Politician, Keyboard playerPeter Ernest Hume (born June 19, 1963) was a city councillor in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He represented Alta Vista Ward in the south end of the city. He was considered by some to have been "the most respected politician in Ottawa".Hume grew up in the Canterbury area of Alta Vista Ward. He attended Hawthorne Public School and Canterbury High School before graduating with a degree in Economics from Carleton University. He would then work as an assistant to Canterbury Ward councillor Michael McSweeney and then Alta Vista Ward councillor Darrel Kent.Hume was first elected as a city and regional councillor in 1991. In 1994 he was elected to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton council (when it became an independently elected position). He was re-elected in 1997. In the 2000 Ottawa election, he chose to run against Ottawa city councillor Allan Higdon for city council, as the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton were set to amalgamate the following year. He was able to defeat Higdon, and was acclaimed three years later in the 2003 Ottawa election. In 2002, Hume contributed $362.26 to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign of Jim Flaherty. Hume is generally considered to be a "red Tory", who "votes in favour of social spending, but talks convincingly about fiscal responsibility."In 2004, Hume allowed a private developer to hold a private party to raise money to pay off a debt Hume had received from running for President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Both Hume and the host of the party has refused to reveal the guest list to that event. Hume would later serve as President from 2008 to 2011.Hume was easily re-elected in the 2006 municipal elections with 70% of the vote and again in 2010 with 59% of the vote. Hume is currently the Chair of the City of Ottawa's Planning Committee, a position he has held since 2003.On August 22, 2014, Hume announced he would not be seeking re-election as councillor.In 2015, Hume partnered with former Minto vice-president, Jack Stirling, in a "strategic partnership to pursue development projects and to advise both the private and public sector." Stirling, the old City of Nepean’s last planning commissioner before amalgamation, is well-known as another former local bureaucrat who jumped the fence in 2001 to work for Minto as vice-president of development, using his experience to stickhandle development proposals through the city’s approvals process. In 2017, Hume was named as the first chair of a new municipal services corporation which will run the ByWard Market and Parkdale Market.- Age: 61
Carla Robinson
NewsreaderCarla Robinson (born 23 January 1971 in Kitimat, British Columbia) is a Canadian television journalist for CBC Newsworld.- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Kitimat, Canada
- Charles Chi is an entrepreneur, venture investor, and current Chancellor of Carleton University.
Peter MacKay
Critic, LawyerPeter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party), and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada. MacKay represented the riding of Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough from 1997 to 2004, and the riding of Central Nova from 2004 until 2015, when he decided not to run in that year's federal election. With the defeat of the Conservatives in the 2015 election, MacKay was considered a potential candidate to succeed Harper as permanent leader of the party. MacKay is married to Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and human rights activist, as well as a former Miss World Canada. MacKay and his family reside in The Beaches area of Toronto.- Age: 59
- Birthplace: New Glasgow, Canada
- Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada) is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. Dr. Blackwell is the founder and CEO of Anybots and a partner at Y Combinator.
- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Saskatoon, Canada
- Eric Malling (September 4, 1946 – September 28, 1998) was a Canadian television journalist. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan to Danish immigrant John Malling Sorensen, he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA degree in English literature then continued his studies at Carleton University in Ottawa where he graduated from the School of Journalism. Malling was a hard-hitting investigative journalist who became the host of the CBC's the fifth estate from 1976 to 1990. In 1978, his one-hour documentary on Gerald Bull and his role in the illegal export of artillery shells from Canada to South Africa during apartheid brought wide acclaim. In another of many sensational stories, the Federal Minister responsible for Fisheries, John Fraser had to resign after Malling revealed he had overruled his own health inspectors and allowed the sale of tainted StarKist brand of tuna based on the suggestion by a non-government corporation. In 1990, he moved to CTV to host W5, which during this period was known as W5 with Eric Malling. He was fired from W5 in 1996.His television journalism earned him a Gemini Award, six ACTRA Awards, three Gordon Sinclair awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. Malling died of a brain hemorrhage at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto after falling down a staircase in his home. He was 52 years of age.
- Age: Dec. at 52 (1946-1998)
- Birthplace: Swift Current, Canada
- Karim Rashid (1960) is an Egyptian-born and Canadian-raised industrial designer. His designs include luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity and packaging. Time magazine has described him as the "most famous industrial designer in all the Americas" and the "Prince of Plastic". He is based in New York City, as well as Belgrade, Miami and Mexico.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Ivan Fellegi
StatisticianIvan Peter Fellegi, (Hungarian: Fellegi Péter Iván; born June 22, 1935) is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008. Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956. He arrived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that year and soon began working for Statistics Canada (then known as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics), which is widely regarded as one of the best statistical agencies in the world. He completed his studies with night courses at Carleton University. In 1958 he was the first Carleton University student to receive a Master of Science degree. Upon completing his doctoral studies in mathematical statistics in 1961 he became Carleton's first Ph.D. graduate. In 1961 he was appointed Director of Sampling Research and Consultation staff, and Director General of the Methodology and systems Branch in 1971. He was promoted to Assistant Chief Statistician in 1973, and became Deputy Chief Statistician in 1984. On September 1, 1985, with close to 30 years experience, Ivan Fellegi was appointed Chief Statistician of Canada. He announced his retirement as Chief Statistician on February 15, 2008. In 1965 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In 1992, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1998. He is an honorary member of the International Statistical Institute and an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He provided advice on statistical matters to his native Hungary following its transition to democracy, and in 2004 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.- Age: 89
- Birthplace: Szeged, Hungary
- Keith Boag is a Canadian senior journalist with CBC Television. He worked with The National as the chief political correspondent, CBC News: Sunday and other current affairs programs, as chief political correspondent, based in Ottawa, Ontario. While in Ottawa Boag analyzed Canadian political affairs, and studies polls and news developments in brief interviews with news anchor Peter Mansbridge. He occasionally creates feature reports. Boag first joined CBC in 1983 as a reporter in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Two years later, he moved to the newsroom in Montreal, Quebec. In 1987, he joined network news in Toronto, Ontario and one year later became national reporter for the CBC in British Columbia. In 1995, he became foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C. then moved to South Africa before returning to Canada in 1999. Born in Montreal, he has a degree in history from McGill University and completed a graduate program in journalism at Carleton University. Boag was reassigned by the CBC as a correspondent in Los Angeles, as part of the changing of the guard in their Ottawa bureau. Boag returned to Washington as correspondent in 2012.
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Peter Andreas Grünberg (18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
- Age: 85
- Birthplace: Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953 in Guntur, India) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair in mathematics.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Guntur, India
Rob Gravelle
- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
- Made to Order is a Canadian lifestyle show airing in more than 150 countries, including the Food Network and Fine Living in Canada, Fine Living in the US, Discovery Travel, and Living in Asia, Australia, India and South America. It features the behind-the-scenes of the running of rain, a high-end restaurant in Toronto, Ontario run by Michael and Guy Rubino. It had 39 episodes.
- Birthplace: St. Catharines, Canada
Louise Charron
JudgeLouise Charron, (born March 2, 1951) is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October, 2004, and is the first native-born Franco-Ontarian Supreme Court judge. (This distinction has sometimes been attributed to Louise Arbour, but Arbour was born and raised Québécoise.) Born in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Charron received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University in 1972, her Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1975, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1977. She practiced civil litigation before joining the Crown Attorney's office in 1980. She then became a law professor at the University of Ottawa. She was appointed to the District Court of Ontario in 1988 and to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1995. Though she was eligible to sit on the bench until 2026, her retirement was announced in May 2011, and became effective August 30, 2011. She was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2012.- Age: 73
- Birthplace: West Nipissing, Canada
- Alexander Shaun Cullen (born February 18, 1951) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Scott Jeffrey Reid (born January 25, 1964) is a Canadian politician. He has served in the House of Commons of Canada since 2000, and currently represents the Ontario riding of Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston as a member of the Conservative Party.
- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Hull, Gatineau, Canada
- David Joshua Azrieli, CM CQ was a Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion, Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the 9th wealthiest Canadian and 401st in the world.
- Age: Dec. at 92 (1922-2014)
- Birthplace: Maków Mazowiecki, Poland
- Paul Wilson Dewar (January 25, 1963 – February 6, 2019) was a Canadian educator and politician from Ottawa, Ontario. He was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre. Dewar was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election. He served as the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs, until he left the post in October 2011 to run for the leadership of the NDP. Dewar lost his seat during the 2015 federal election which saw the NDP lose all of its seats in Eastern Ontario. Before entering politics he worked as a teacher and was an elected representative of the Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers' Federation.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Michael Cowpland
Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943 in Bexhill-on-Sea) is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Sussex, United Kingdom
- Gregory Henriquez is a Canadian architect, best known for the design of complex community-based mixed-use, office, condominium, retail, institutional and social housing projects in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. He is the managing partner of Henriquez Partners Architects and has designed multiple award-winning projects throughout the region.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada
Michael Colle
PoliticianMichael Colle (born February 1, 1945) is a politician in Ontario, Canada who has served at the municipal and provincial level. He is currently, since 2018, a Toronto City Councillor. Previously, Colle was a city councillor for the city of York and then Metro Toronto from 1982 to 1994. He then served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 until 2018. He represented the ridings of Oakwood from 1995 to 1999, and Eglinton—Lawrence from 1999 to 2018. After losing his seat in the 2018 provincial election, he returned to municipal politics and was elected to Toronto City Council in 2018. Colle served as a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty.- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Foggia, Italy
Peter L. Hurd
Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is an Associate Professor aligned to the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research primarily focuses on the study of the evolution of aggressive behaviour, including investigation of aggression, communication and other social behaviour which takes place between animals with conflicting interests. Major tools for this research are mathematical modeling (principally game theory and genetic algorithms). He is also interested in how the process of sexual differentiation produces individual differences in social behaviour. Hurd conducted a study on digit ratios suggesting a positive correlation in males between aggressive tendency and the ratio of the lengths of the ring finger to his index finger. These gathered significant media attention, being reported on the BBC, in the New York Times, Discover Magazine, Scientific American Mind, National Geographic and on Jay Leno.- Mark Bourrie is a Canadian lawyer, blogger, journalist, author, historian, and lecturer at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. His work has appeared in many Canadian magazines and newspapers.
- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Ontario, Canada
Susan Wood
Professor, Author, WriterSusan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948 – November 12, 1980) was a Canadian literary critic, professor, author and science fiction fan and editor, born in Ottawa, Ontario.- Age: Dec. at 32 (1948-1980)
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Kayhan Kalhor
Film Score Composer, Musician, ComposerKayhan Kalhor (Sorani Kurdish: کەیھان کەلھور,Persian: كيهان كلهر; also Romanized as Keyhan Kalhor and Keyhān Kalhor) (born 24 November 1963 in kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian Kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Persian traditional music. "It's still Autumn" Songlines Five Star Album and among the Ten Best Albums of the year 2019,- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Kermanshah, Iran
Konrad von Finckenstein
Judge, BureaucratKonrad Winrich von Finckenstein, QC (born April 4, 1945) is a Canadian public servant who has worked in the areas of trade, commercial, competition and communications law.- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Germany
- Merella Fernandez is a Canadian reporter andwas an anchor for CityNews in Toronto.
- Age: 51
- Birthplace: Karachi, Pakistan
- Rosemary Thompson (born 17 October 1964) is the Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Board Relations at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada’s largest postgraduate arts and leadership training institute and one of the largest in the world. She is the former Executive Director of Communications for Canada's National Arts Centre, located in Ottawa. She is the former deputy bureau chief of the parliamentary bureau for CTV News. She was a reporter and frequent guest host on CTV programs including Question Period and Mike Duffy Live. She is a veteran political correspondent who has covered election campaigns in the United States, Quebec and Ottawa.
- Age: 60
- Marianne Letitia Ackerman (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and journalist. Mankind and Other Stories of Women, her fifth work of prose fiction, was published by Guernica Editions in 2016. Her play Triplex Nervosa premiered at Centaur Theatre in April 2015.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Belleville, Canada
Judy Wasylycia-Leis
Klazina Judith Wasylycia-Leis (pronounced Was-ah-lish-ah-lease) (born August 10, 1951) is a Canadian politician. She was a Manitoba cabinet minister in the government of Howard Pawley from 1986 to 1988, and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from September 22, 1997 to April 30, 2010. In 2010 and 2014 she was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of Winnipeg.- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Canada
Sean Wise
Sean Wise (born September 23, 1970) is a Canadian mentor capitalist (mentor to young firms), international business speaker, business columnist for The Globe and Mail, author, partner at Ryerson Futures Inc, and as a consultant for CBC on the venture reality show Dragons' Den.- Age: 54
Shad Qadri
Businessperson, PoliticianShad Qadri (born c. 1952 in Pakistan) is a politician and businessman in Ottawa, Ontario. He was the councillor for Stittsville (Ward 6) from 2006 until 2018.- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Pakistan
- For the Canadian author, see W. P. Kinsella.Warren Kinsella is a Canadian lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, and commentator, based in Toronto, Ontario. Kinsella has written commentary in most of Canada's major newspapers and several magazines, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, the National Post and The Walrus. He appeared regularly on the Sun News Network. Kinsella bills himself as the "Prince of Darkness" of Canadian politics.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Québec, Canada
James Byron Bissett
DiplomatJames Byron Bissett is a Canadian former diplomat. He was high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and later ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.- Birthplace: Deloraine, Canada
- Barry Devolin, (born March 10, 1963) spent the first 35 years of his career in politics, government and academia, but is now establishing himself in the travel industry as a Tour Director with DeNure Tours and as an independent travel consultant, known as BarryTravelMaven, where he focuses on planning "amazing vacations at affordable prices" for families and young people. Prior to moving back to Canada in March 2018, Devolin was an Associate Professor in Public Administration and Chair of the Asian Studies Graduate Program at Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea. Previously, he spent most of 20 years in Canadian politics, including more than a decade as the Member of Parliament for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock (2004–15) and 7 years as Assistant Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons (2008–15).
- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Peterborough, Canada
- Jane Arraf is a journalist for NPR based in Cairo, Egypt. She previously worked for the Christian Science Monitor. and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent.
Gord Brown
Gordon Keith Brown (August 31, 1960 – May 2, 2018) was a Canadian politician who represented the Ontario riding of Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Conservative Party from 2004 until his death. Brown was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on the advice of Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer, to sit on the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians on November 6, 2017, and served on the committee until his death. From 2013 until the 2015 election, Brown was Chair of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and the House of Commons Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. He also sat on several all-party caucuses focusing on rural, health, border and other issues and also participated in numerous parliamentary groups. Brown was chosen in an earlier Parliament by then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Chair the Special Committee that reviewed the Anti-Terrorism Act. He also served as chair of the Ontario Conservative Caucus under Harper.- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Gregory M. Spierkel
BusinesspersonGregory M.E. Spierkel is the chief executive officer of Ingram Micro Inc.- Age: 69
- Yasir Abbas Naqvi (Urdu: یاسر عباس نقوی) (born January 25, 1973) is a former Pakistani-Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Ottawa Centre. He was President of the Ontario Liberal Party and served in several cabinet positions in the government of Kathleen Wynne, including as Attorney General.
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Pakistan
Doug Thompson
PoliticianDouglas Thompson was a councillor in the city of Ottawa for the Osgoode Ward. Thompson was also the former mayor of Osgoode Township prior to the amalgamation with the new City of Ottawa. Prior to being mayor of Osgoode, Thompson was a municipal councillor in the township for 14 years. Prior to entering politics, Thompson was a teacher for 35 years before retiring. He lives in the community of Greely where he has lived since 1967. He has coached minor hockey and baseball. He graduated from Carleton University, with a degree in History and Political Science. Thompson served as acting mayor of Ottawa for one month in 2009 while mayor Larry O'Brien took a leave of absence to deal with a criminal investigation.- Age: 79
David Climenhaga
JournalistDavid John Climenhaga (born February 1, 1952) is a Canadian union activist, blogger, journalist, author and teacher. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he has lived in Victoria, Prince Rupert, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and St. Albert. He spent many years as a full-time journalist with the Toronto Globe and Mail, where he worked as a business reporter and copy editor, and the Calgary Herald, where he worked as a business reporter, political reporter, copy editor and night city editor. In 1995, his book A Poke in the Public Eye, a light-hearted look at the often-uncomfortable relationships among politicians, journalists and public relations people was published by Detselig Books of Calgary. In 1997 he was awarded the degree of Master of Journalism by Carleton University in Ottawa for a thesis dealing with the decision of the Alberta Government of Premier Ralph Klein to wind up the province's highly regarded system of regional planning. The thesis was based in part on journalistic work he had done on the Calgary Herald's City Hall and Regional Affairs beats. In 1999 and 2000, Climenhaga was a leader in the attempt by the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada to organize a union local and negotiate a first contract with the Calgary Herald. Before and during the eight-month strike by journalists in 1999 and 2000, Climenhaga was Vice-President of Local 115A of the CEP. When the strike ended in June 2000 with the dissolution of the union, he left journalism to work as Communications Director of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which with about 90,000 members in 2016 is Alberta's largest union. In 2011, he went to work for the United Nurses of Alberta, which represents more than 30,000 Registered Nurses in Alberta. Climenhaga has also taught courses in introductory journalism, newspaper copy-editing and political science at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and in journalism at The King's University College, a private Christian university in Edmonton. In October 2007 and 2013, Climenhaga ran for city council in the Edmonton-area city of St. Albert. Until the paper folded in July 2011, he wrote a regular column on Alberta politics for the Saint City News, a community weekly in St. Albert. He also writes AlbertaPolitics.ca, a political blog with a large readership, and contributes regularly to the website rabble.ca which describes Climenhaga and his fellow contributors as "some of the best progressive writers in Canada." Climenhaga is a recreational karate enthusiast, holding Yondan rank (fourth-degree black belt) in Uechi-Ryu karate. He is the son of Dr. John Leroy Climenhaga, the Canadian astrophysicist.- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Canada
Walter Douglas Boyd
SurgeonWalter Douglas Boyd, M.D. is a notable Canadian cardiothoracic surgeon. born in Ottawa, he is a graduate of Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa for his medical degree. In 1999, he Boyd completed the world's first closed-chest, beating-heart coronary artery bypass surgery with the use of the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System, and has conducted pioneering work in cardiothoracic surgery and the use of robotic surgical systems. Dr. Boyd is also recognized for performing the first human extracellular matrix xenograft implant for cardiovascular repair in March 2006.He was the head of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida from 2002-2009. In August, 2009 he was named Professor of Surgery, and Director of Robotics and Biosurgery at the University of California, Davis.Current areas of research include pioneering work in cardiac tissue regeneration with extracellular matrix/stem cells, and remote presence surgery including the development of remote telerobotic surgery systems with supervised autonomy. He has a wife, Lee and two children.- Cyril Keeper (born July 17, 1943) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1988, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party. Keeper was born in Berens River, Manitoba. He is an aboriginal Canadian, of Métis background. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg, and a Master of Arts degree from Carleton University. He worked for the government of Manitoba from 1970 to 1975, and was director of the Native Family Life Counselling Program in Winnipeg from 1975 to 1977. Keeper was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in 1977, defeating incumbent councillor Robert Steen (ironically, Steen was elected Mayor of Winnipeg on the same night). He served on council for just over two years, before moving to federal politics. Keeper was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1980 federal election, narrowly defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Bob Lane in Winnipeg—St. James. The Liberal Party won a majority government under Pierre Trudeau, and Keeper entered the House of Commons as an opposition member. Originally appointed as NDP critic for urban affairs and public works, he attained greater recognition in a later role as critic for manpower, the Unemployment Insurance Commission, and the Public Service Commission. Throughout 1982 and 1983, he made frequent calls for the Trudeau government to place a greater focus on Canada's worsening unemployment situation.Keeper left Winnipeg—St. James to seek the NDP nomination for Winnipeg North Centre in the 1984 federal election, under somewhat controversial circumstances. It was generally assumed that Winnipeg—St. James would become more favourable to the Progressive Conservative Party after redistribution; Winnipeg North Centre, by contrast, was one of the safest NDP seats in the country. Keeper's candidacy was said to have annoyed other New Democrats, who wanted to recruit a star candidate for seat. Keeper nonetheless won the nomination, and rejected charges that he moved from "a sure loser to a safe riding". He was re-elected without difficulty, as the Progressive Conservatives won a majority government. Keeper served as his party's postal critic in the next parliament, and was a vocal opponent of Canada Post's plans to reduce rural mail delivery after 1986. He also announced his support for the Meech Lake Accord in 1987.He lost to Liberal challenger David Walker in 1988. Two years later, he argued that many poor residents of his riding had been denied the right to vote because enumerators were reluctant to enter their neighbourhoods. He did not blame his own defeat on a flawed enumeration methods. Keeper sought the NDP's Winnipeg North Centre nomination again for the 1993 federal election, but lost to Maureen Hemphill. He campaigned for re-election to Winnipeg City Council in 1995 as a candidate of Winnipeg in the Nineties, but lost to incumbent councillor Amaro Silva in the Daniel McIntyre ward. He identified public safety as one of his main concerns.In May 2005, Keeper, Jim Silver and Michael MacKenzie published a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study addressing low turnout rates among aboriginal voters.
- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Canada
Angus Mortimer
Angus Mortimer (born September 4, 1985) is a Canadian former sprint kayaker. He represented Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing ninth in the K-4 1000 m event. He won a gold medal in the 2007 Pan American Games K-1 1000m.- Age: 39
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Rita Celli
NewsreaderRita Celli (born c. 1969 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian radio journalist, currently the host since 2006 of Ontario Today on CBC Radio One's stations in Ontario. During her tenure, the show has earned a number of awards including three Gracie Awards for Outstanding Talk Show (2013, 2011, 2010), a Gabriel Award in the News and Informational Local Release category (2011), the Sam Ross Award for Editorial Writing/Commentary from the Radio Television News Directors Association (2009) and a silver medal in the International Breaking News category at the New York Festival (2008). In 2014, Celli was awarded the prestigious Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism. In 2000, she and a team of CBC journalists won an investigative award from the Canadian Association of Journalists. Prior to Ontario Today, Rita held a number of positions at CBC on both radio and television, including anchor of CBC Ottawa's supper hour news.Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, she graduated from Carleton University’s journalism program in 1991.J. Patrick Boyer
J. Patrick Boyer, Q.C. is a university professor, journalist, author, policy activist, publisher, and a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament. Before entering politics, Boyer was a partner in the Fraser & Beatty law firm in Toronto, where he specialized in communications law and electoral law. A major part of his practice was also in the Western Arctic as a member of the Northwest Territories Bar. When granted his Queen's Council designation, note was made of Boyer's contribution to the legal profession in authoring the definitive series of texts on Canadian election law at federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal levels. Boyer earned a Master's degree in Canadian history and a Doctor of Laws degree, both from the University of Toronto and gained an honours degree in economics and political science from Carleton University. He also studied French-Canadian literature at University of Montreal, and international law at the Academy of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Bracebridge, Canada
Robert Fisher
NewsreaderRobert Fisher (born 1948 or 1949) is a retired Canadian radio and television journalist.David A. Thomas
Computer scientistObject Technology International (OTI) was founded in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1988 and acquired by IBM in 1996. OTI, in conjunction with the IBM development lab in Cary, NC, developed the VisualAge line Smalltalk and Java development tools that eventually culminated in the open source Eclipse tool platform and integrated development environment (IDE). OTI continued to operate with many of the same employees as it did when it was purchased by IBM until 2003-2004, when it was gradually disbanded as a distinct entity and its remaining employees absorbed into IBM.- Ben Franklin (1942–March 22, 2003) was mayor of the city of Nepean, Ontario from 1978 to 1997. Nepean became part of the city of Ottawa in 2001.He was born in Elgin, Ontario in 1942. He graduated from Carleton University with a BA in 1971 and became a high school geography teacher. In 1973, he was elected to Nepean council. In 1975, he ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Carleton in the Ontario general election. As mayor, Franklin established a "pay as you go" policy which brought the city out of debt. He retired in 1997 due to health problems. His executive assistant, Mary Pitt, succeeded him as mayor of Nepean after running a campaign that promised to simply continue Franklin's vision. He received an artificial heart in March 2003 but died of heart failure later that month at the age of 60. Ben Franklin Place at Centrepointe was named after him. He was the first person to be given an honorary key to the new city of Ottawa.
- Age: Dec. at 61 (1942-2003)
- Peter Chura is a Canadian television news anchor in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is the anchor of Global Winnipeg's Evening News. He has a bachelor's degree in Journalism and History from Carleton University in Ottawa, and he has worked for CBC Television's The National in Toronto, CITO in Timmins, CKND in Winnipeg, CITV in Edmonton, and CHUM Television in Ottawa.
Kevin S. MacLeod
Kevin Stewart MacLeod (born 1951) is a former Canadian Secretary to the Queen of Canada, former Usher of the Black Rod for the Canadian Senate, and the author of the historical fiction novel, A Stone on Their Cairn/Clach air An Càrn.Born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, MacLeod studied at Boston University and Carleton University, where he received both his bachelor's degree in history and political science and a master's degree in international affairs, before moving on to the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. After his return from there, MacLeod served for 10 years as an administrative assistant in the House of Commons of Canada, subsequently acting as a chief of staff for one of the then ministers of the Crown before being employed by the Department of Canadian Heritage for 22 years. Among his accomplishments in that office, MacLeod was appointed as the Chief of Protocol and then authored A Crown of Maples/la couronne canadienne – an educational book on the Canadian monarchy, published by the heritage department. It is the responsibility of the Department of Canadian Heritage to organise royal tours of Canada, and it was for that in 1987 of Queen Elizabeth II, that MacLeod first had a part in coordinating such an event, and, by the time of the Queen's 2005 visit to the prairies to celebrate the centennials of Alberta's and Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation, MacLeod was given the role of Acting Secretary to the Queen. For his service to the monarch, he had already been in 1992 appointed as a member of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 2002, the year of Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. But, it was during the 2005 tour that MacLeod was elevated by the Queen in person to the highest position a Canadian can hold in the order (due to the government's adherence to the Nickle Resolution), that of commander; this made MacLeod the only Canadian to be promoted through all three levels of the order in Canada.On March 27, 2008, MacLeod was appointed by order of the Governor-in-Council as the Usher of the Black Rod for the Senate, replacing Terrance Christopher. On April 1, 2009, MacLeod was further appointed as the full-time Canadian Secretary to the Queen, putting him in charge of, amongst other things, coordinating royal tours of Canada, and chairing the Diamond Jubilee Committee, which is to organise the celebrations in 2012 for the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Canada. He was responsible for the visit of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall to Canada in November 2009, and he was responsible for co-ordinating the Queen's 24th official visit to Canada in 2010.In 2010, MacLeod was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Governor General Consultation Committee a special committee to recommend a successor to Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean. The panel recommended David Lloyd Johnston who was installed as viceroy on October 1, 2010.MacLeod retired from his post as the Usher in 2013.MacLeod retired from his post as Canadian Secretary to the Queen, and from the public service, on February 10, 2017.- Age: 74
- Birthplace: North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Edward Greenspon
Editor, JournalistEdward Greenspon (born March 26, 1957) is a Canadian journalist who joined Bloomberg News in January 2014 as Editor-at-Large for Canada after four years as vice president of strategic investments for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. and publisher of the Toronto Star. Before that, he was the Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for seven years. In 2002, he assumed the position at a turning point in the paper's history, and, during his tenure, he instituted several sectional revamps, launched new web sites and maintained circulation levels. On May 25, 2009, he was replaced by John Stackhouse.Greenspon is a former managing editor of the Globe's Report on Business Section and was the Globe's Ottawa bureau chief before becoming editor-in-chief. He was the founding editor of Globeandmail.com. He is the father of three children: Bailey, Joshua and Jacob.- Age: 67
- Birthplace: Canada
- Peter John Vickers Worthington (February 16, 1927 – May 12, 2013) was a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956, Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971. Worthington was the founding editor of the Toronto Sun newspaper, which was created by former Telegram employees upon that newspaper's demise. In 1996 Worthington was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame.
- Age: Dec. at 86 (1927-2013)
- Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada
Ed Kavanagh
WriterEd Kavanagh is a Newfoundland and Labrador writer, musician, and teacher. Ed Kavanagh grew up in Kilbride, Newfoundland, and studied English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, music at Carleton University, and English and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. He has written four children's books, the Amanda Greenleaf series. In 2001 he published his first novel, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, a coming-of-age story set in 1950s and 1960s Newfoundland. A harpist, he has released a CD of Newfoundland music performed on the celtic harp, as well as an album of children's music. He is currently a professor of both entrance-level English courses and creative writing courses at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In addition to this, he teaches harp and works as an editor.- Age: 71
- Harry Forestell is a Canadian television journalist and news anchor. He was the host of CBC Newsworld's Around the World and the 4 p.m. hour of CBC News Today from Toronto. On February 15, 2010, he became the anchor of CBAT-TV's evening newscasts. He was previously based in London, England for CBC News: Morning delivering international news. He has extensively covered business news and graduated from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. While at St. Thomas University, he was the editor of the student newspaper and was involved in numerous student activities. He also attended Carleton University in Ottawa. He has won numerous awards. He now anchors CBC News New Brunswick.
- Birthplace: Canada
John Porter
John Arthur Porter (November 12, 1921 – June 15, 1979) was one of Canada's most important sociologists from 1950 to the late 1970s. His work in the field of social stratification opened up new areas of inquiry for many sociologists in Canada. Porter was born in Vancouver and completed his education at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. There, he became interested in studies of social class. On returning to Canada he joined the faculty of Carleton University. He remained at Carleton as a professor, and later, as department chairman, dean and academic vice-president. He was also visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto.- Age: Dec. at 57 (1921-1979)
- Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
Tyler Hamilton
JournalistTyler Jay Hamilton (born June 6, 1970) is a Canadian author, blogger and climate and economy reporter. He is Senior Manager of Partnerships at MaRS Cleantech Venture Services, and Adjunct Professor at York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies. Prior to this position Hamilton was Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Knights magazine, and Climate and Economy Reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily-circulation newspaper.- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Canada
Ward Elcock
Ward P.D. Elcock (born August 1947) is a Canadian civil servant who served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1994 until May 2004. He remains the only Director to have ever served out his entire tenure. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007. He was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1947 to Commodore F. Dudley Elcock and Mary Grace Pitfield and is the oldest of four children (Hew, Julia and Mark (deceased)). He is the grandson of deceased Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace Pitfield (née MacDougall). He is the nephew of former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, the retired Senator late Michael Pitfield, and retired financier Ward C. Pitfield, Jr.. A Bachelor's graduate in Political Science from Carleton University, Elcock received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Elcock served as the Security & Intelligence Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council Office for five years, and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning/Counsel) for six years, prior to his rise to CSIS and National Defence. In 2007, Elcock was named Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office "pending his next assignment".In 2010, he was the chief of the Integrated Security Units organized for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 36th G8 summit in Huntsville, and the 4th G-20 summit in Toronto. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Special Advisor on Human Smuggling and Illegal Migration in the Privy Council Office.Elcock lives in Ottawa and is married with two children.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Victoria, Canada
Rick Findley
Lieutenant-General Eric A. "Rick" Findley, CMM, MSC, CD (born 1950) is a retired officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was the Deputy Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) from July 2003 through August 2007.- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Joan Finnigan
Poet, Screenwriter, WriterJoan Helen Finnigan (November 23, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was a Canadian writer and poet. She won a Genie Award for Best Screenplay in 1969. She wrote over 30 books, many of them oral histories of the Ottawa Valley.- Age: Dec. at 81 (1925-2007)
- Birthplace: Canada
- Mathieu Chantelois (born July 4, 1973) is a Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor, and marketing executive.
- Age: 51
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- Cloud Ten Pictures is a film production and distribution company located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada that specialized in producing "end times" Christian films.
- Age: 53
- Birthplace: Lusaka, Zambia
Jim Judd
James Judd (born 1947) is a Canadian retired diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the end of his term. He was succeeded by Richard Fadden, the former Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Canada
- Claudia Mo (born Mo Man-ching on 18 January 1957), also known as Claudia Bowring, is a Hong Kong journalist and politician, a member of Pan-democracy camp. She is a member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon West geographical constituency.
- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
Todd van der Heyden
Todd van der Heyden (born October 16, 1973) is a Canadian journalist and news anchor with CTV News in Toronto, Ontario.- Age: 51
- Nelofer Pazira is an award-winning Afghan-Canadian director, actress, journalist and author.
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: India
Richard J. Van Loon
Richard Van Loon (born 1940) is a former Canadian civil servant and ex-president of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Van Loon was the first president of Carleton who was also a Carleton alumnus. He got his bachelor of science in chemistry there in 1961, as well as an MA in 1965. He completed a PhD in political studies at Queen's University in 1968, and for several years he taught that subject at Queen's, Carleton and the University of Ottawa. His career in the federal civil service has included stints in the Department of Energy and the Treasury Board. He has been an associate deputy minister of the federal departments of Health and Indian Affairs. source When he was appointed president of Carleton in August 1996, Van Loon inherited a school $12.9-million in debt whose enrolment and retention rates were beginning to decline. The "open-door" admissions policy of one of his predecessors, William Edwin Beckel, had earned Carleton a reputation as "Last Chance U," but his immediate predecessor, Robin Hugh Farquhar, had managed by the end of his term to get Board and Senate approval for an increase in admission standards. Consequently, during Van Loon's first two years in office, although Carleton's accumulated deficit ballooned to almost $30 million, its entrance averages rose and he organized a massive faculty restructuring to focus on two core academic strengths: public affairs and high-technology programs. Van Loon's cutbacks also phased out several humanities and foreign-language departments, which aroused large but short-lived protests by the faculty, and by the end of his presidency the University's debt was just under $20 million. At the recommendation of Carleton's athletic department, Van Loon made the controversial decision to shut down the university's football program in March 1999. In 2001, Van Loon was appointed for a second term by Carleton's board of governors. During this term, he helped administer a $280-million construction boom to prepare for the arrival of Ontario's double cohort of high-school graduates. By the time his second term ended in July 2005, Carleton's $30-million debt had been almost cut in half. source Van Loon's successor was David W. Atkinson, formerly president of Brock University. Van Loon is co-author of Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario (with Ian D. Clark and David Trick, 2011).- Age: 85
Akiko Kamei
PoliticianAkiko Kamei (亀井 亜紀子, Kamei Akiko, born 14 May 1965) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Representatives. She is a former member of People's New Party and of the House of Councillors. A native of Tokyo and graduate of Gakushuin University and Carleton University, she was elected for the first time in 2007 in the Shimane at-large district. Her father Hisaoki Kamei was a veteran member of the House of Representatives. She is married.Kamei contested the Shimane 1st district in 2017 election. While she lost against the longtime incumbent Hiroyuki Hosoda in the race, she received enough votes to be elected through the PR block.- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Dan Krewski
PhysicianDaniel Krewski is an Academic who is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, where his focus is health risk assessment in the Institute of Population Health.Evelyn Gigantes
Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes (born 1 November 1942) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three occasions between 1975 and 1995, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.- Age: 82
- Birthplace: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, Canada
Frank Cole
Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film DirectorFrank Cole (1954 – 2000) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker who became the first North American to cross the Sahara alone on camel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, in 1990. This epic odyssey earned Cole a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. His documentary Life Without Death chronicled his experience and won him several prestigious awards as well as being released theatrically in Paris. Cole was murdered by bandits near Timbuktu, Mali, in late October 2000.- Age: Dec. at 46 (1954-2000)
- Birthplace: Saskatchewan, Canada
- Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist. Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides. Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Quill and Quire, The Georgia Straight, Western Living and Canadian Business. Her work has brought her three Western Magazine Awards, including a Gold Award in 2003 for feature writing. In 2005 she won the Canadian National Magazine Awards' Silver award for Fiction. She has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night and books editor for The Georgia Straight. Her 2011 collection of short stories Better Living Through Plastic Explosives was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.She is also a writer of short stories, which have appeared in a number of publications. She published a collection of these stories, All the Anxious Girls on Earth in 1999. And her 2011 collection of short stories Better Living Through Plastic Explosives was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.Gartner has been writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia and a member of the faculty at Banff Centre's Writing Studios. Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.
- Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada
Susan McMaster
WriterSusan McMaster (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, literary editor, performance poet, and former president of the League of Canadian Poets (2011–12).- Age: 75
Gerald Doucet
Gerald Joseph Doucet, QC (May 4, 1937 – November 23, 2017) was a Canadian politician and lobbyist. He represented the electoral district of Richmond in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1974, as a Progressive Conservative.Born in Grand Étang, Nova Scotia in 1937, Doucet graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in 1958, and went on to earn a law degree from Dalhousie University in 1961.Doucet was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 1963 general election, defeating Liberal leader Earl Urquhart by 83 votes in the Richmond riding. He was re-elected in 1967 and 1970. He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Provincial Secretary, and Minister of Education. When appointed in 1964, Doucet was the first Acadian cabinet minister in the province's history.Doucet ran for leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia at the party's 1971 leadership convention, finishing second to John Buchanan.Starting in 1984, the year he wrote Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Agreement: One Year Later, Doucet was a member of the successful but sometimes controversial Ottawa consulting firm Government Consultants International (GCI), along with Frank Moores, Francis Fox, and Gary Ouellet (The Insiders, by John Sawatsky, 1987; On The Take, by Stevie Cameron, 1994). In 2004 Doucet published his biography, Acadian Footprints. Doucet was the brother of Fred Doucet, who served as Brian Mulroney's first Chief of Staff when he became leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in 1983, and served on his staff in the Prime Minister's Office while Mulroney was Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993. His daughter Michelle Doucet is Assistant Superintendent, Corporate Services sector, at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI).Doucet died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 23, 2017.- Age: 87
Gérard Veilleux
Gérard Veilleux, OC (born 1942) was president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1989 to 1993. He became president of Power Communications in 1994. Born in East Broughton, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1963 from Université Laval and a Master of Public Administration degree in 1968 from Carleton University. Veilleux was a career public servant: Director General, Federal-Provincial Relations, Quebec Department of Intergovernmental Affairs Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of National Health and Welfare Assistant Deputy Minister, Federal-Provincial Relations and Social Policy, Department of Finance Associate Deputy Minister, Ministry of State for Economic Development Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council Secretary to the Cabinet for Federal-Provincial Relations Secretary of the Treasury Board- Age: 83
Jennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten (born October 31, 1947) is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first woman from her country to win the title. The whole contest had been controversial even before the result had been announced. Afterwards allegations were made about the influence of the Prime Minister of Grenada, who was on the judging panel. She was born in St. George's, Grenada. She was 22 when she won the Miss World contest in December 1970, and so the more likely of the two dates of birth that are reported is October 31, 1947. She studied in London and then worked for the BBC's Caribbean radio service before becoming a flight attendant.- Age: 76
- Birthplace: St. George's, Grenada
Terence Corcoran
EditorTerence "Terry" Dollard Corcoran (born November 6, 1942) is columnist and comment editor for the Financial Post section of the Toronto-based National Post.- Age: 82
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Carl Coulter
Carl Coulter (born November 14, 1966) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman. He played 15 seasons in the Canadian Football League for six different teams. He was named CFL All-Star in 1998 and was a part of one Grey Cup championship team with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1999. Coulter played CIS football for the Carleton Ravens. After a football career he moved on to teaching at elementary schools and doing construction work in Ottawa.- Age: 58
- Birthplace: Kawartha Lakes, Lindsay, Canada
Barbara Coll
Barbara "WebMama" Coll is a search engine marketing/SEM pioneer who in 2003 established the global, non-profit Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. She has been a speaker at Search Engine Strategies conferences, and the Search Marketing Expo Conference Series. Coll is a past member of the advisory board for the Internet marketing conference Ad:tech. She is the CEO of Webmama.com Inc., a company she founded in 1996 to provide Silicon Valley with information about search engines, and search marketing. Coll has been quoted as an authority by major publications such as the San Francisco Business Times and CRM Magazine, she has also been invited to write about search for corporates such as PayPal, and talk about search for universities such as Stanford.- Age: 65
Donald Benham
PoliticianDonald Benham is a Canadian journalist, teacher and politician. He graduated in journalism from Carleton University in 1975 and in Canadian studies in 1981. Donald Benham spent eight years as political reporter, columnist and business editor for the Winnipeg Sun newspaper. He was director of public relations for the University of Winnipeg and served as a press assistant to former prime minister Joe Clark. In the field of broadcasting, he hosted the popular CBW program Questionnaire. After serving as director of communications to former Mayor Glen Murray, he successfully campaigned to become city councillor for the River Heights-Fort Garry ward in 2004, and continued speaking out on social and civic planning issues. He is also known to generally oppose the privatization of public infrastructure, and to encourage ‘grassroots’ involvement in political processes. He lost his re-election bid in October 2006 to Brenda Leipsic. He says that he rides his bicycle or takes public transportation rather than drive a car whenever practical for chiefly environmental reasons.- Age: 71
Alexandra Bugailiskis
DiplomatAlexandra Bugailiskis (born January 9, 1956) is a Canadian diplomat. In August 2017 she was appointed Canadian Ambassador to the Italian Republic, as well as Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino and to the Republic of Albania as well as High Commissioner to Malta. From October 2015 she served as Assistant Deputy Minister for Europe, the Middle East and the Maghreb for Global Affairs Canada. Subsequently she also assumed responsibility for the Arctic. Since 2011, Ms. Bugailiskis has concurrently been Chief Negotiator for the Canada-European Union Strategic Partnership Agreement. From September 2012 until October 2015 she served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Poland. In addition to her previous Head of Mission postings in Syria, Cyprus and Cuba, she has also served abroad in Ghana (with concurrent accreditation to Benin, Togo and Liberia), and in Guatemala (with accreditation to El Salvador).- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Canada
John Turmel
PoliticianJohn C. Turmel (born February 22, 1951) is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness World Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost, having contested 98 elections and lost 97. The other contest was a by-election that was pre-empted by a general election call.- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
Asahiko Mihara
PoliticianAsahiko Mihara (三原 朝彦, Mihara Asahiko, born May 23, 1947) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Onga, Fukuoka, he attended Hitotsubashi University and Dag Hammarskjöld College in the United States, and received a master's degree from Carleton University in Canada. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1986. He participated in the formation of the New Party Sakigake in 1993 but later returned to the LDP. He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Rintaro Ogata. Representative Mihara was re-elected in 2012 to the Fukuoka Prefectural 9th district. He is a member of the Party Ethics and Fundamental National Policies Committees as well as the Director of the Special Committee on Promotion of Science and Technology, and Innovation. In 2004, Mihara received political donations of ¥ 300,000 from organizations related to the Unification Church.Mihara is a member of the Diet groups of Nippon Kaigi, an openly revisionist lobby, and Shintō Seiji Renmei, a fundamentalist Shintō lobby.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Onga, Japan
- Charlotte Gray, CM (born January 3, 1948) is a British born Canadian historian and author. The Winnipeg Free Press has called her "one of Canada's best-loved writers of popular history and literary biography."
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Hans Daigeler
PoliticianHans Wolfgang Daigeler (February 21, 1945 – November 9, 1995) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995.- Age: Dec. at 50 (1945-1995)
- Minnijean Brown-Trickey (born September 11, 1941) is a political figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School. The integration followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision which required public schools to be desegregated.
- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Christian Bök
Poet, ActorChristian Bök (born August 10, 1966 in Toronto, Canada) is an experimental Canadian poet. He is the author of Eunoia, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.- Age: 58
- Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Margaret Wade Labarge
HistorianMargaret Wade Labarge, (July 18, 1916 – August 31, 2009) was a Canadian historian and author specializing in the role of women in the Middle Ages. She was adjunct professor of history at Carleton University. Labarge attended Harvard and Oxford Universities, and taught at the University of Ottawa before her move to Carleton. In 1982, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1988, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She authored nine books about history.- Age: Dec. at 93 (1916-2009)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Nahlah Ayed
Television producerNahlah Ayed is a foreign correspondent with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).- Birthplace: Winnipeg, Canada
Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett
PoliticianDr. Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett is the Permanent Representative for Barbados to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 12 March 2004. During the 58th United Nations General Assembly, Hackett was a Senior Adviser to the President, Julian R. Hunte. Hackett was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (masters), and New York University (PhD in public administration). After serving briefly in the Barbados Ministry of External Affairs and as Second Minister in Barbados' mission at the UN in 1969-70, he was employed at the UN in various capacities until 2004, with his last post being Chief of the Caribbean Division, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).James Hanington
- Age: 41
Steve Desroches
PoliticianSteve Desroches is a politician in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was the councillor for Gloucester-South Nepean Ward, a ward representing some of Ottawa's southern suburbs. He was first elected in the 2006 municipal election. He has re-elected in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election.Desroches studied at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, where he obtained a Masters degree in public administration. Prior to his entry in municipal politics, Desroches worked for several Ministries in the federal government as well as the office of the Auditor General. He was a trustee at the Ottawa Public Library Board and also a vice-chair in the OC Transpo Advisory Committee. In the election, Desroches defeated former Ottawa-Carleton Regional Chair Andrew Haydon to become the first councillor of this new ward which includes about half of Barrhaven, Riverside South and Leitrim. He lists his priorities as to improving infrastructures in the ward that is under massive development, including improving roads and public transit. Public Safety and fiscal management were also key priorities in his campaign and for his upcoming term at City Council. He was also a supporter of the now-cancelled expansion of the City's O-Train north-south light-rail expansion project which would have served Riverside South and Barrhaven South starting in 2009. Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of the Perley-Rideau Veterans Health Centre Foundation.[1] In 2015 he was awarded the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation for his work to support Canadian veterans.[2]Georges Bédard
PoliticianGeorges Bédard (born in Ottawa, Ontario) is a former member of Ottawa City Council representing the ward of Rideau-Vanier. This ward covers Lower Town, Sandy Hill, and Vanier. Born and raised in the area Bédard currently lives in Sandy Hill. He attended Carleton University where he obtained a degree in political science. He first became involved in local politics in the successful effort to block the construction of the King Edward Expressway. He was first elected to city council at a young age in 1974 and served on the council until 1980. During this period he was best known for his efforts at preserving heritage structures. Upon leaving the council he became president of the Heritage Canada Foundation . He is also among the founders of the Franco-Ontarian Festival, and of Ottawa's Pollution Probe. He later joined the federal civil service serving as a land claims negotiator. He also had a number of other duties including serving as president of Ottawa's Tulip Festival. In the 2003 Ottawa election he returned to Ottawa's city council, replacing Madeleine Meilleur who had become a member of the provincial legislature. Meilleur endorsed Bédard's return to city council and he elected with 42% of the vote with his closest rival getting 27%.He was re-elected in the 2006 Ottawa election with 47% of the vote to his closest, Bruce McConville, 45%, the narrowest margin of victory of any of the incumbent councilors. He lost the 2010 Ottawa election to Mathieu Fleury.- Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada
Harry Albright
Harry James Albright was the Director of Communications for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) from 2008 to 2013, and editor of The Friend Magazine from 1997 to 2004. He is also the co-owner of a training and communications consultancy.- Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Paul Calandra
Paul A. Calandra (born May 13, 1970) is a Canadian politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2008 to 2015 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2018. He currently serves as Ontario's Government House Leader since June 20, 2019 when he was promoted during cabinet reshuffle. He was first elected to represent the electoral district of Oak Ridges—Markham in the 2008 Canadian federal election. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and in the past has been involved in the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the Canadian Alliance. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and for Intergovernmental Affairs.In the 2015 federal election, he was a candidate in the Markham—Stouffville riding, created as a result of the federal electoral redistribution of 2012 and was defeated by Jane Philpott. In the 2018 Ontario General Election, Calandra defeated Helena Jaczek by 11,905 votes to represent the riding of Markham-Stouffville as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Markham, Canada
Neil Herland
- Age: 49
Saša Petricic
JournalistSaša Petricic is an award-winning Canadian journalist. He is currently the Asia Correspondent and videojournalist for CBC Television's The National and other CBC News programs, based in Beijing, China. He previously spent four years covering the Middle East.- Age: 62
