Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament,retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to October 2021 and minister of transport from November 2015 to January 2021. He was an MP in Westmount,Montreal for 15 years.
Howard George Hampton is a politician who was a member of Provincial Parliament for the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario,Canada,from 1987 to 1999 in the electoral district of Rainy River,and from 1999 to 2011 in the redistributed electoral district of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party,he was also the party's leader from 1996 to 2009. Hampton retired from the legislature at the 2011 Ontario provincial election and subsequently joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP as a member of the law firm's corporate social responsibility and aboriginal affairs groups.
Shelley Dawn Marie Martel is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. She was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 2007. She represented the ridings of Sudbury East and Nickel Belt. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
Southam Inc.,also known as South News and Southam Newswire,was a media company and news agency in Canada. Company founder William Southam started as a paper boy for the London Free Press and eventually went on to acquire many prominent daily newspapers across Canada such as the Calgary Herald,Edmonton Journal,Ottawa Citizen,The Province and Winnipeg Tribune and created Southam Inc. in 1904 to run them. The company was sold to Hollinger Inc. in 1996 and was eventually broken up and sold to media conglomerate Canwest. Many former Southam newspapers are now owned by Postmedia Network Inc.
The 1990 Ontario general election was held on September 6,1990,to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario,Canada. The governing Ontario Liberal Party led by Premier David Peterson was unexpectedly defeated. Although the Peterson government,and Peterson himself,were very popular,he was accused of opportunism in calling an election just three years into his mandate. In a shocking upset,the New Democratic Party (NDP),led by Bob Rae,won a majority government. This marked the first time the NDP had won government east of Manitoba,and to date the only time the NDP formed the government in Ontario.
Floyd Laughren is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1998 who represented the northern Ontario riding of Nickel Belt. He served in cabinet as Finance Minister and Deputy Premier in the government of Bob Rae.
Sudbury East was a provincial electoral riding in the Canadian province of Ontario,that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1999. It served the easternmost portion of the former city of Sudbury,the eastern portion of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury,and several rural communities to the east and southeast of the city. The riding only existed in provincial elections —for federal elections,most of Sudbury East was part of either Nickel Belt or Timiskaming—French River.
Jan Wong is a Canadian academic,journalist,and writer. Wong worked for The Globe and Mail,serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994,when she returned to write from Canada. At the turn of the 21st century she was known for her Globe column Lunch with Jan Wong. She covered the Dawson College shooting in 2006 and her article was attacked by the public and even the prime minister. The Globe management did not back her and this caused her to have a bout of clinical depression. She was fired by the newspaper in 2007 without cause,but she had to sign a confidentiality agreement about the terms of the settlement. In 2012 she self-published the book Out of the blue about her time at the paper. In late 2014,The Globe successfully sued her for breeching the confidentiality agreement and she was ordered by the court to repay her settlement and court costs. After 2008,she took on various jobs including being a guest host on CBC Radio,and author of several best selling books. Into the 2020s she is employed as a professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton,New Brunswick. She is married with two adult children and resides in both Toronto and Fredericton.
Tony Ruprecht is a former Canadian politician. His first elected position was as an alderman in the old Toronto City Council,in the late 1970s. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1981,and served in premier David Peterson's cabinet as minister without portfolio from 1985 to 1987. Ruprecht represented Toronto's Parkdale and then Davenport constituencies for the Liberal Party of Ontario for 30 years. On 5 July 2011,he announced that he was leaving politics and would not seek re-election in the October 2011 provincial election.
Stevie Cameron was a Canadian investigative journalist and author. She worked for various newspapers such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. She co-hosted the investigative news television program,The Fifth Estate,on CBC-TV in the 1990s. She was also an author of non-fiction books,including On the Take (1994) about former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Her exposéon Mulroney and the Airbus Affair led to many legal battles including a judicial hearing to determine if she was an RCMP confidential informant:she was not. The fact that Mulroney did take a substantial amount of money while still in government was confirmed in the 2010 Oliphant report. Her final books dealt with the disappearance and the killing of several Indigenous women in the Vancouver area in the mid-1990s to the turn of this century. These murders were ultimately attributed to convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. She won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book for her work on the Pickton case. Besides being a journalist and author,she was also a humanitarian,helping start programs for the underprivileged and homeless such as Second Harvest and the Out of the Cold program. For her lifetime work as a writer and humanitarian,she was invested into the Order of Canada in 2013.
Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes 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.
M/V William Carson was a CN Marine passenger/vehicle icebreaker ferry named in honour of Newfoundland colonial politician William Carson.
The Dini Petty Show is a Canadian daytime television talk show,which aired on stations affiliated with the Baton Broadcasting System from 1989 to 1999. It originated from the BBS flagship station,Toronto's CFTO-TV.
Charles Burchill Lynch,was a Canadian journalist and author.
France Gélinas is a politician in Ontario,Canada. She is a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2007. She represents the riding of Nickel Belt.
Kristyn Wong-Tam is a Canadian politician who has represented Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2022 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).
The Huronia Regional Centre was an institution for developmentally disabled people operated by the government of Ontario,Canada between 1876 and 2009. After the closing of the school,and prompted by a class-action lawsuit,the government apologized for decades of neglectful abuse of the facility's residents and paid a settlement to surviving victims.
Kelly Thornton is a Canadian theatre director and dramaturge. She has served as artistic director of Nightwood Theatre and is the current artistic director of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Thornton was the co-head of Equity in Canadian Theatre:the Women’s Initiative.
Beryl Potter was a British-born Canadian disability rights activist. She was involved in many disability rights organizations in Ontario including the Trans-Action Coalition,the Scarborough Recreation Club for Disabled Adults,the Ontario Action Awareness Association,and the Coalition on Employment Equity for Persons with Disabilities (CEEPD). Potter was a triple amputee and was blind in one eye as a result of complications due to a fall at work.
