Mario Dumont is a Canadian television personality and former politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), from 1994 to 2009. After the 2007 Quebec election, Dumont obtained the post of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly.
Star Académie is a Canadian reality television series that started in 2003, aimed primarily at the Quebec television audience, featuring an array of young women and men under the age of 30 competing for the title of the next solo singing sensation. It is the French-Canadian adaptation of the French television show Star Academy produced by Dutch company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo.
La Soirée du hockey was a Canadian ice hockey television show. It was the French language Radio-Canada equivalent of the English Canadian CBC show Hockey Night in Canada. The show used "The Hockey Theme" as its theme song, like its English language counterpart. The show ran from 1952 to 2004.
The Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) is a branch of the Université du Québec network founded in 1969 and based in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. UQAC has secondary study centres in La Malbaie, Saint-Félicien, Alma, and Sept-Îles. In 2017, 7500 students were registered and 209 professors worked for the university, making it the fourth largest of the ten Université du Québec branches, after Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), and École de technologie supérieure (ETS).
Denise Filiatrault, is a Canadian actress and director.
Ginette Reno is a Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She has received nominations for the Genie and Gemini Awards and is a multi-recipient of the Juno Award. She is a gold and platinum selling Canadian musician.
One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions. "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is: 'I have no idea'", he told the BBC. The story has inspired countless copycats, who have attempted to trade their way up from a paperclip to something expensive, with varying degrees of success.
Patrick Huard is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian from Quebec.
Benoît Charest is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film The Triplets of Belleville (2003), for which he won a César Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song "Belleville Rendez-vous", in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination.
Marc Labrèche is a Canadian actor, comedian and host.
Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Streetheart and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in You (Toi).
Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mars et Avril, his feature film debut. He is also known for The 12 Tasks of Imelda, his second feature film released in 2022, in which he portrays his own grandmother, and for his animated series Red Ketchup which premiered in 2023. Villeneuve previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
Antoine Bertrand is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Les Bougon and the films Louis Cyr, a role that earned him the Iris Award for Best Actor, and Starbuck, for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 2012 Genie Awards.
Charles Lafortune is a Canadian actor and radio and television host.
France Castel, née Bégin in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian singer, actress and broadcaster.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Anaïs Favron is a Canadian radio and TV host, actress, and improviser.
The 12 Tasks of Imelda is a Canadian comedy-drama feature film, written, produced and directed by Martin Villeneuve, and released in 2022. Based on the last twelve years of Villeneuve’s paternal grandmother Mélenda “Imelda” Turcotte-Villeneuve's life, the movie stars the filmmaker as Imelda, an elderly widow on a quest to settle unresolved scores as she approaches age 100.
