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    Alain Lefèvre

    Alain Lefèvre, OC, COQ, pianist, composer, broadcaster (born 23 July 1962 in Poitiers, France)

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    Allan Slaight

    John Allan Slaight, CM, media mogul, philanthropist, reporter, broadcaster, magician (born 19 July 1931 in Galt, ON; died 19 September 2021 in Toronto, ON). After briefly working as a magician, Allan Slaight started his career as a radio reporter. He quickly rose through the ranks and bought his first radio station before his 40th birthday. By the time he sold his holdings to Astral Media for $1.08 billion in 2007, the media magnate had amassed more than 50 radio stations and a pair of TV stations. He also owned the Toronto Raptors and was a notable philanthropist, with numerous awards now named in his honour. Slaight was made a Member of the Order of Canada and has a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

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    Andrew Edward Fairbairn Allan

    Andrew Edward Fairbairn Allan, radio-drama producer, actor, writer (b at Arbroath, Scot 11 Aug 1907; d at Toronto 15 Jan 1974).

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    Bernelda Wheeler

    Bernelda Winona Sakinasikwe Wheeler (née Pratt), broadcaster, journalist, author, poet, actor, social activist (born 8 April 1937 in Fort Qu’Appelle, SK; died 10 September 2005 in Saskatoon, SK). Bernelda Wheeler was an award-winning author and pioneering Indigenous broadcaster, sometimes referred to as the ‘First Lady of Native Broadcasting’. Wheeler was equally well-known as an Indigenous author of children’s literature. She was one of the hosts of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s landmark Indigenous program, Our Native Land, from 1972 to 1982. Wheeler was one of the first female Indigenous journalists in Canada. 

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    Bob Cole

    Robert Cecil Cole, CM, sports announcer, broadcaster (born 24 June 1933 in St. John’s, NL; died 24 April 2024 in St. John’s). One of Canada’s most iconic sports broadcasters, Bob Cole was the voice of English-language hockey broadcasts in Canada for five decades. He worked as a play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada, first for CBC Radio and TV and then for Sportsnet. Cole was the lead announcer on Hockey Night in Canada for nearly 30 years. He also covered the Olympic games for 45 years. He was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame and the Order of Canada. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.

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  • Macleans

    CBC President Manera Resigns

    At 3 p.m. on Feb. 27, only 90 minutes before the federal budget was tabled in the House of Commons, CBC president Anthony Manera was handed a single sheet of paper that made him do a double take. In three neat columns, figures spelled out the bleak financial future of the Crown corporation.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 13, 1995

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    Guido Basso

    Guido Basso, CM, flugelhornist, trumpeter, arranger, composer, conductor, harmonica player (born 27 September 1937 in Montreal, QC; died 13 February 2023 in Toronto). One of Canada’s pre-eminent jazz trumpeters, Guido Basso was also known for the lyricism of his flugelhorn work. He was credited with the theory that one attacks the trumpet and makes love to a flugelhorn. Basso appeared on some 30 recordings by the Boss Brass, and on albums by Anne Murray, Ian Tyson, Holly Cole, Lenny Solomon, Oliver Jones and others. Basso’s Lost in the Stars won the 2004 Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994.

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    Guy Latraverse

    Guy Latraverse, COQ, OC, producer, impresario (born 5 July 1939 in Chicoutimi, QC; died 14 October 2023 in Montreal, QC). Known as the “father of Quebec show business,” Guy Latraverse was one of the pioneers of Quebec’s recording and entertainment industries. He managed and/or produced works by such artists as Pauline Julien, Claude Léveillée, Robert Charlebois, Louise Forestier and Yvon Deschamps, among many others. He was also involved in the founding of the Francofolies de Montréal and the annual awards honouring the best in Quebec music (Félix Awards, ADISQ), theatre (La soirée des Masques), film (Prix Jutra, now Prix Iris) and comedy (Les Olivier). He was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec and the Order de la Pléiade, as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada and the Order of Montreal. He was inducted into the Canadians Songwriters Hall of Fame in the Special Achievement category in 2010.

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    Jacques Languirand

    Jacques Languirand, dramatist, essayist (born 1 May 1931 in Montréal, Québec; died 26 January 2018). In the 1950s and 1960s he was Canada's most important exponent of the theatre of the absurd, having been much influenced by playwrights in vogue during his stay in Paris, 1949-53.

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    Jean-Pierre Ferland

    Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer, songwriter, television host, actor (born 24 June 1934 in Montreal; died 27 April 2024). Jean-Pierre Ferland was recognized as one of the greatest chansonniers in Quebec and the entire French-speaking world. A romantic singer par excellence, he started with the Les Bozos in 1959. He broke out in 1962, winning first prize in a Francophonie contest with “Feuille de gui.” In 1968, he won the Grand prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros for “Je reviens chez nous.” “Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin” became a francophone anthem and received SOCAN’s Cultural Impact Award in 2023. Ferland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec, an Officier of the Ordre de la Pléiade and a Compagnon of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. He and five of his signature songs were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

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    Jian Ghomeshi

    Jian Ghomeshi, singer, songwriter, musician, broadcaster, writer, manager (born 9 June 1967 in London, England). Jian Ghomeshi was a member of the quirky, alternative pop-folk group Moxy Früvous from 1990 to 2001. He parlayed that recognition into a radio and television career with the CBC, hosting such entertainment talk shows as >play, The National Playlist and Q. He wrote a best-selling memoir, 1982 (2012), about growing up as an Iranian Canadian in Thornhill, Ontario, and stayed active in the music business as an artist manager. His career and national profile unravelled in the fall of 2014 when he was fired by the CBC and charged with sexual assault in incidents involving several women (see Jian Ghomeshi Case).

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    Kay Livingstone

    Kathleen (Kay) Livingstone (née Jenkins), organizer and activist, broadcaster, actor (born 13 October 1919 in London, ON; died 25 July 1975). Kay Livingstone founded the Canadian Negro Women’s Association in 1951 and organized the first National Congress of Black Women in 1973. An established radio broadcaster and actor, Livingstone also devoted a great deal of her life and energy to social activism and organizing. Her tireless work to encourage a national discussion around the position of racialized people in society, particularly Black women, led Livingstone to coin the term visible minority in 1975.

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    Lisa LaFlamme

    Lisa LaFlamme, OC, OOnt, journalist, broadcaster (born 1964 in Kitchener, ON). Lisa LaFlamme is known for her long and distinguished career as a high-profile television journalist. She was the first woman to host CTV National News, a role she held — as chief news anchor and senior editor — for over a decade. She was named Best National News Anchor at the Canadian Screen Awards five times. Her abrupt termination from CTV, announced in August 2022, was met with broad public outrage. She has been appointed to the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.

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    Maestro Fresh Wes

    Wesley Williams (a.k.a. Maestro Fresh Wes, Maestro), rapper, actor, author, motivational speaker, radio and TV host (born 31 March 1968 in Toronto, ON). Maestro Fresh Wes is regarded as the “godfather of Canadian hip hop.” His debut album, Symphony in Effect (1989), was the first album by a Black Canadian artist to be certified platinum in Canada. It yielded the hugely successful and influential hit single “Let Your Backbone Slide.” In 2019, it became the first rap song to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Maestro has been nominated for 17 Juno Awards and has won two, including the inaugural award for Rap Recording of the Year in 1991. In 2013, he was named No. 1 on CBC Music’s list of the greatest Canadian rappers. Between 2022 and 2024, he earned three straight Juno nominations for Children’s Album of the Year. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2024.

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    Paul Houde

    Paul Houde, radio host, TV pundit, actor (born 25 August 1954 in Saint-Laurent, QC; died 2 March 2024 in Montreal, QC). Known as the “nerd en chef du Québec” (Quebec’s nerd in chief), Paul Houde had a long career as a morning man on various Montreal radio stations. A natural storyteller with an engaging personality, he also made regular appearances on numerous Quebec TV programs and appeared in the Les Boys film franchise as a goaltender with an encyclopedic knowledge of sports statistics. Diagnosed as autistic later in life, Houde was referred to as WikipéHoude and an “encyclopedia on two feet” for the depth and breadth of his knowledge.

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