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David Huynh

David Huynh (born February 5, 1983) is a Canadian Actor. 
Huynh won a Special Jury Prize Award at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for Outstanding Newcomer and Best Emerging Actor for his performance in Juwan Chung's Baby, which also won a Special Jury Award for Best Feature Length Film at that year's Festival. Huynh has also Starred in Byron Q's film, Bang Bang (2011), which won a Special Jury Award for Best First Feature, Narrative, at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He has also starred as Benson Fong in Timothy Tau's short film bio-pic on Keye Luke, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He recently stars in a Web Series entitled "Hollywood Aliens" from Beyond Cinema Productions, Directed by Bang Bang Director Byron Q and Kevin Boston.
Huynh was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and studied at The Prairie Theatre Exchange and was a member of the influential Manitoba Theater for Young People. Huynh briefly studied at the University of Manitoba focusing on a major in Theater and a minor in Film Studies. He left school to pursue his career in 2003.
Huynh has appeared on TV shows such as ER, Cold Case and Without A Trace. In 2008, he starred in Mark Tran's film "All About Dad" (Winner of the Cinequest Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature) as a Biology major who quits his studies to pursue a career in filmmaking. He also stars as a Rookie Cop in Timothy Tau's Web Series, Quantum Cops.
Huynh has appeared on stage at Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Kirk Douglas Theater, starred as "Neil" in the East West Players Production of Prince Gomolvilas' play adaptation of Scott Heim's Mysterious Skin, for which he was named "Best Actor in A Play" at the 20th Annual Ticket Holder Awards of 2010 and as a Best Featured Performance on Theater Critic Don Grigware's "The Best in Los Angeles Theater 2010", and starred at The Colony Theater as "Vuthy" in Michael Golamco's play Year Zero.
== Filmography ==
*Hollywood Aliens (2012) - Dave
*Keye Luke (2012) - Benson Fong
*Bang Bang (2011) - Charlie
*Quantum Cops (2011) - Rookie Dave
*Without A Trace (2009) - Frankie Jones
*All About Dad (2009) - Ty Do
*Golden Boy - Fruitberry Customer
*Baby (2008) - Baby
*ER (TV Series) (2009) - Leo
*Cold Case (TV series) (2007)- Billy Takahashi
David Lam

David See-chai Lam, OC, CVO, OBC (林思齊) (September 2, 1923 – November 22, 2010) was from 1988 to 1995 the 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
 
==Early life==
Born in Hong Kong, Lam and his family immigrated to British Columbia following World War II. He received an Economics degree at Lingnan College in Hong Kong and an MBA from Temple University in Philadelphia.
==Career==
Lam became a prominent real estate businessman in Vancouver, and was a leading proponent of many ambitious development schemes. He is also noted for being a leading philanthropist. In 1986, he helped found the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival.
==Lieutenant Governor==
In 1988 Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, on the advice of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, appointed him lieutenant governor. Three premiers served under Lam: William Vander Zalm, Rita Johnston, and Michael Harcourt.
He formally ended the practice of lieutenant governors wearing the Windsor uniform. This practice was reinstated by current Lieutenant Governor Steven Point.
He was Canada's second non-white lieutenant governor (first was Lincoln Alexander of Ontario), and the first Asian-Canadian Canadian lieutenant governor.
==Honours==
In 1988, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. John (KStJ) and Vice-Prior of the Order from 1988 to 1995. 
In 1988, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1995. 
In 1994, he was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) by the Queen in 1994. 
In 1995, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. 
==Death==
He died on November 22, 2010 from prostate cancer at the age of 87.[1]
David Usher

David Usher is a British-born Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly the frontman for the alternative rock band Moist, he embarked on a solo career beginning in 1997 and has released seven solo albums to date.
David Usher was born in Oxford, England to a Thai Buddhist, artist Samphan Usher, and a Jewish Montrealer, Dan Usher, who is a professor of economics at Queen's University. He has lived in various places such as Malaysia, New York City, California and Thailand since early childhood, before his family settled in Kingston, ON. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Usher attended Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, majoring in political science. His degree would later influence his music career. 
Usher is a humanist, and has been involved in such causes as War Child Canada, White Ribbon Campaign and Amnesty International. Usher is featured in the acclaimed 2001 MuchMusic special Musicians in the WarZone, a humanitarian documentary produced by War Child Canada, directed by filmmaker Liz Marshall. In it Usher journeys to the northern border of Thailand to visit a large Burmese refugee community.
Usher married Sabrina Reeves, photographer and co-artistic director for the Bluemouth Inc. performance theatre company, in 1997. They have two daughters, Coco born January 10, 2003, and Océane Danayia born April 28, 2008.
== Other Links: ==
*Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidusher
David Xiao

David Hui Xiao (born November 17, 1960) is a Canadian businessman and politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Edmonton-McClung as a Progressive Conservative.
Xiao was born in Guizhou Province in southwest China. His father was an accountant in the coal mining industry and his mother was a teacher. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the Beijing Second Language Institute, Xiao began working as a translator and eventually got into business, which gave him the opportunity to travel to Canada. He moved his family to Edmonton during the Tiananmen protests in China, seeking freedom and opportunity.
In Canada, Xiao was a successful entrepreneur before entering public life, working in consulting, international trade, publishing, commercial real estate and marketing. As a business consultant, Xiao worked with some of the world's biggest companies, including Nortel, Bombardier, Motorola, and various Canadian publishing companies. In addition to the BA in English literature, Xiao has a diploma in geological science from the Beijing Institute of Mining. He has also studied business through NAIT and economics at the University of Alberta.
==Political career==
Xiao has spent a great deal of time trying to get elected to the federal government. He sought the Conservative Party nomination in several ridings on a number of occasions. Having been unsuccessful in all his federal attempts, Xiao turned his attention to provincial politics. Xiao first sought public office in the 2008 provincial election in the constituency of Edmonton-McClung. In that election, Xiao defeated first-term Liberal incumbent Mo Elsalhy by 1216 votes to win the riding. After the election, he was named Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Employment and Immigration, Hector Goudreau. Politically, Xiao has been a member of the federal Reform and Canadian Alliance parties, and served on the Edmonton-Leduc board of directors for the Conservative Party of Canada.
==Personal life==
Xiao is married to Alice and together they have two sons, Allen and Andrew. He also considers himself a tea connoisseur. He collects tea pots and enjoys cooking.
Day's Lee

Day’s Lee is a documentary filmmaker and author based in Montreal. 
Lee produced, directed and wrote the documentary Meet and Eat at Lee's Garden which takes a look at Chinese-Canadian restaurants in Montreal in the 1950s and what they meant to the Chinese community and their Jewish customers. It premiered on the CBC program Absolutely Canadian in November 2020. In 2022, it was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best History Documentary Program or Series. The documentary is currently available for streaming on CBC GEM. 
As an author, she published the children’s picture book, The Fragrant Garden and a young adult novel entitled Guitar Hero. Her latest book The Red Pagoda and Other Stories is a collection of previously published short stories several of which were nominated or short listed for awards. As a freelance writer, her articles and personal essays have appeared in national and local magazines. 
 
Membership: The Writers’ Union of Canada and The Quebec Writers’ Federation
dayslee.ca
Deep Saini

Dr. Hargurdeep Saini, also known as Deep Saini, is a notable scientist and is a Vice-President of University of Toronto. Additionally, he is currently also the principal of the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus. Prof Saini, was previously the dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. 
An alumnus of Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, and later the University of Adelaide, Australia, Saini joined many Indian-origin educationists holding high positions in Canadian universities. 
Saini began his academic career in Canada in 1982 when he joined the University of Alberta as a post-doctoral fellow, has been the dean at the University of Waterloo since 2006. 
Dr. Saini is a noted Plant Physiologist Advances in Agronomy, pp ix, Volume 68 By Donald L. Sparks, San Diego [etc.] : Academic Press, cop. 2000. Bulletin - American Society of Plant Physiologists, Issue 52 , Bethesda, Md. [etc.] American Society of Plant Physiologists. and is the past president of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists and the Federation of Canadian Plant Science Societies, Saini also visited India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's 'Clean Tech Mission to India'. Indo-Canadian gets top post in Canada's top university IANS, Jan 22, 2010, 02.13pm IST
He is currently a member of the NSERC's 'Biological Systems and Functions' grant selection panel, the Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Botany (since 2003), and has also served as Consulting Editor of the Journal of Crop Production (1997-2000).
Deep Saini/fr

Les Indo-Canadiens sont des citoyens canadiens issus de la diaspora indienne. En 2001, l'agence Statistique Canada recensait 713 330 individus s'identifiant comme des Indo-Canadiens. 
La communauté indo-canadienne s'est d'abord établie au Canada en 1897 lorsque des vétérans de guerre sikhs s'établirent sur la côte ouest du pays. Ils venaient tout juste de célébrer le jubilé de diamant de la reine Victoria. La jeune communauté sikhe dut cependant faire face à des restrictions sur l'immigration et aux émeutes raciales de 1907. 
La vaste majorité du peuplement indien au Canada date de la fin du XXe siècle. Dans les années 1970, 1980 et 1990, plusieurs milliers d'immigrants se sont établis chaque année dans la région métropolitaine de Vancouver et la région métropolitaine de Toronto.
Bien que la plupart des Indo-Canadiens soient issus du continent indien, une minorité d'entre eux est issue du continent africain et des pays du Commonwealth. Les Indiens ugandais, les Indo-trinidadiens, les Indo-Guyanais, les Indiens du Moyen-Orient, du Royaume-Uni et des États-Unis font tous partie de la communauté immigrante.
Les Indo-Canadiens parlent une varitétés de langues, dont le panjâbî, l'ourdou, le tamoul, le bengalî, le gujarâtî et le malayalam. Le panjâbî a presque trois fois plus de locuteurs que le tamoul, qui occupe le deuxième rang des langues indiennes au Canada.
La démographie indo-canadienne montre que la majorité des Indo-Canadiens sont jeunes et ont moins de 35 ans, une tendance contraire à ce qui est généralement observé dans la population canadienne. Ils ne gagnent pas de grandes sommes d'argent, mais plusieurs d'entre eux s'efforcent à s'instruire en allant à l'université.
La culture indo-canadienne est très proche des origines ethniques et religieuses des différents groupes indiens présents dans le pays. Les éléments culturels indiens ont été remarquablement préservés grâce à la politique multiculurelle du gouvernement canadien. Les Indo-Canadiens ont aussi essayer de se démarquer par rapport au continent indien en mettant en valeur l'américanité de leurs mœurs culturelles.
En matière de religion, le portrait est très diversifié : ce ne sont pas seulement des hindous qui choisissent d'immigrer vers le Canada. Ainsi, il y a 240 000 sikhs, 192 000 hindous, 125 000 musulmans, 63 000 catholiques et 37 000 protestants. Il y aurait plus de 100 gurdwârâs dans le Canada tout entier.
Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005); among which Earth was submitted by the Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and "Water" was submitted by Canada for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it Canada's first non-French Canadian film to receive a nomination in that category. She also co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996.
After completing her graduation, Mehta started making short documentaries in India, and in time she met Canadian documentarian Paul Saltzman, who was in India making a film and whom she was to later marry and migrate with to Canada in 1973. Once in Canada, she embarked on her film career as a screenwriter for children's films, she also made a few documentaries including,At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch (1975).[1] In 1991 she made her feature-film directorial debut with Sam & Me (starring Om Puri), a story of the relationship between a young Indian boy and an elderly Jewish gentleman in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale. It won Honorable Mention in the Camera d'Or category of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Mehta followed up with Camilla starring Bridget Fonda and Jessica Tandy in 1994. In 2002, she directed Bollywood/Hollywood, for which she won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Mehta directed two episodes of George Lucas' television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. The first episode, "Benares, January 1910", aired in 1993. The second episode was aired in 1996 as part of a TV movie titled Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father.
Mehta also directed several English-language films set in Canada, including The Republic of Love (2003) and Heaven on Earth (2008) which deals with domestic violence and has Preity Zinta playing the female lead. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
In Canada she met and married filmmaker Paul Saltzman whom she divorced in 1993. The couple have a daughter, author Devyani Saltzman. Her daughter is an acclaimed author, curator and cultural critic.
Mehta is currently married to producer David Hamilton.[14] Her brother, Dilip Mehta is a photojournalist and film director, who directed, Cooking with Stella, which he co-wrote with Deepa.
Deepak Obhrai

Deepak Obhrai (born July 5, 1950 in Oldeani, Tanzania) is a Canadian politician, representing the riding of Calgary East for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is currently serving as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Website.
He was first elected in 1997 for the Reform Party of Canada, and was re-elected when the Reform Party became the Canadian Alliance in 2000. In 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011 he was elected as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was also one of four Alliance MPs who agreed to sit with the Progressive Conservative caucus after the December 9, 2003 creation of the merged Conservative Party. The Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parliamentary caucuses were not officially merged until a few weeks later.
As an opposition member he served as the Opposition critic for International Cooperation, Multiculturalism, International Trade and of CIDA.
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Deepak Obhrai/fr

Deepak Obhrai (né le 7 mai 1950 à Oldeani, en Tanzanie) est un homme politique canadien ; il est actuellement député à la Chambre des communes du Canada, représentant la circonscription de Calgary-Est sous la bannière du Parti conservateur du Canada.
Anciennement homme d'affaires, il est d'abord élu en 1997 pour le Parti réformiste du Canada, et est réélu lorsque le Parti réformiste devient l'Alliance canadienne en 2000. En 2004 et 2006 il est élu en tant que membre du Parti conservateur. Il est parmi les quatre députés alliancistes qui consentent à siéger avec le caucus progressiste-conservateur après la création, le 9 décembre 2003, du Parti conservateur fusionné, étant donné que les caucus parlementaires progressiste-conservateur et allianciste ne sont fusionnés officiellement que quelques semaines plus tard.
En tant que député de l'opposition, il a été porte-parole en matières de Coopération internationale, de Multiculturalisme, de Commerce international et de l'ACDI.
Il est actuellement secrétaire parlementaire du ministre des Affaires étrangères.
Deepali

Deepali Lindblom combines the best of the dance and drama in a unique performing art of storytelling. Proficient in many Indian folk dances, folk theater and puppetry, Deepali combines these art forms with 'Kathak', an Indian classical dance. Her artistic journey that began 10 years ago in India, took new dimensions in Sweden and continue to grow in Montreal, where she presently resides. Her stay in these countries helped mold her art by lending their distinct influences and thus Deepali blends in the charisma of the East, the precision of the West and the best of in between, in her present performing arts.
Deepali Dewan

Curator
South Asian Visual Culture
B.A. (Honours), Art History, McGill University, 1993
M.A., Art History, University of Minnesota, 1995
Ph.D., Art History, University of Minnesota, 2001
Dr. Deepali Dewan is an art historian with a special interest in the visual cultures of South Asia. She is a Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto and is affiliated with the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is also part of the Toronto Photography Seminar, a group of scholars from Ontario institutions who read, produce, and edit collaborative research concerning the history and theory of photography.
Dr. Dewan’s research interests encompass nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora. Her work on colonial South Asia has examined the links between early art education, the circulation of objects, and the production of knowledge in the discipline of art history. Her research on 20th-century art has focused on the work of specific artists as a way to begin to map the larger picture of post-colonial visual practice. Most recently, her research focuses on different aspects of the history and theory of photography in India as a way to explore how the photographic image played a productive role in the trajectories of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity, with a view toward understanding how photography has shaped contemporary ways of viewing and being in the world.
Dr. Dewan joined the Royal Ontario Museum in January 2002 as Associate Curator of South Asian Civilizations. Prior to joining the ROM, she worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Asia Society in New York. She also served as visiting instructor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Carleton College, Minnesota, where she taught courses on the history of South Asian and contemporary arts. She has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the College Art Association, the MacArthur Program/Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Deesha

Deesha is a Canadian singer/songwriter/producer. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the youngest of 3 children.
In 2003 Deesha released her first single to Canadian radio, a song called 'Falling In Love'. She independently pushed that record to Canadian radio and managed to get significant airplay across the country. 'Falling In Love' charted in the top 30 on Canadian Radio. Toronto's Flow 93.5 was the first station to play the single. Ottawa's Hot 89.9 was quick to follow with the then Music Director, Scott Boogie, personally calling Deesha to tell her he was immediately putting her song into high rotation.
In 2005, Deesh's collaboration with Canadian rapper Arabesque on his single “Stardust” became a heavily rotated single and much applauded video. By the beginning of 2006, Deesha had independently released 2 singles, received several songwriting competition accolades, written for a major label artist, and had become a constant on the now defunct MTV Desi. Having hosted and performed on the “Live from Puerto Rico” special, as well as “Maximum Party,” Deesha was invited to co-host the MTV Desi “Top 10 Desi Countdown.” She was also featured on an artist spotlight on MTV news that year.
In October 2006, Deesha released her debut album 'Life Less Ordinary'. Completely self-penned, co-produced and independently released, “Life Less Ordinary” garnered the respect it deserved and was nominated for the 2007 Juno Awards as Best R&B/Soul Recording of the Year. 
Leading up to the awards, CTV, one of Canada’s largest television networks, and MTV Canada, aired a segment with Deesha hosting her own shopping trip for her first ever red carpet with famed jewelry designer Rita Tesolin.
In 2008, a remix of Deesha's 'Let Your Freak Out' from the album 'Life Less Ordinary' was featured in the Oscar nominated film, “The Wrestler”, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei.
Deesha began work on her second album in 2009 and is expected to release it in 2011. The album is titled 200 Grams.
Desifest

desiFEST is Canada's largest FREE outdoor South Asian music festival hosted by SatsB. desiFEST's vision is to create mainstream opportunities for South Asian artists and South Asian inspired music.
For two years in a row, desiFEST Toronto set new records for crowd turnout and artists programming. Over 130,000 visitors and 26,000 engaged visitors enjoyed 32 incredible bands for 12 hours. 
desiFEST is not-for-profit, grassroots organization established to foster and grow the large South Asian Arts Community in Toronto and across Canada. They help to unify, create awareness and develop new showcase opportunities in Toronto, across Canada and Internationally.
Since inception, desiFEST has expanded to include Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver. They have also showcased artists from across Canada, UK, US, India, and Pakistan. They take pride in showcasing Canadian talent
Through desiFEST, they are helping to strengthen local communities, inspire youth and support the arts community in Canada.
In helping foster the artist community, they help artist with various aspects of the industry.
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* Would this format also allow for additional content (subjective, stories) to be added to our wiki, if so desired? Additional content (not from the wikipedia article), would not be updated. 
* If we decide on this route, would we have to wait for another week or so for this to be ready? We won't be meeting until end of next week, so I'm not sure whether you'd need to discuss with the designer before implementation. 
* Would this format also allow for the "info box" template? Most wikipedia articles have this template, however ours does not. The possibility of an info box has been brought up in initial meetings as well-whether we can make the AC wiki more like wikipedia articles to ease navigation.
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