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Glenda Braganza

Born in Halifax and raised in Ottawa, Glenda Braganza is a Montreal-based theatre, voice, film and television actor with a Specialization in Theatre Performance BFA from Concordia University. In 2004 Glenda was awarded the M.E.C.C.A. (Montreal English Critics' Circle Award) for Best Actress and was included in The Montreal Mirror's "Noisemakers 2005" list. Glenda has worked with various Montreal theatre companies including Pumpkin Theatre (Faiting Wor Godot); Persephone Productions (West, Jane Eyre); Black Theatre Workshop (Bluenose, Skin) and most notably, Geordie Productions with whom she has toured to Western Canada. She recently appeared at the Segal Centre in Table D'Hote Production’s critically acclaimed show A Line in the Sand as Sadiq.
Since 2003, Glenda has been working in film and television for various networks as well as many Montreal-produced pilots, independent productions and commercials. Her credits include the Gemini-nominated CTV movie Tripping Wire starring Clark Johnson., NBC's sweeps television special 10.5 Apocalypse with Kim Delaney and David Cubitt; the second season of Philms’ The Business (IFC/TMN) and the Montreal-based series Naked Josh for Showcase; the television feature Infected starring Gil Bellows and Isabella Rossellini; and feature film Afterwards with John Malkovich and Lilly Evangeline.
Glenda is currently performing on Granville Island, in the world premiere stage adaptation of Don Quixote - a co-production between Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre, Axis Theatre and Montreal's Centaur Theatre. The production then moves to Montreal, where she calls home with her husband Mike, with whom she enjoys an active lifestyle, traveling and the culinary arts.
Gordon Chong

Gordon Joseph Chong is a Toronto politician and public servant. He has served as a city of Toronto councillor and was vice-chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission. He served on the board of GO Transit from 2000 to 2006 including periods as vice-chairman of GO Transit and chairman. He has also served as chairman of the Greater Toronto Services Board.
A dentist by profession, Chong represented a downtown Toronto ward on city council from 1980 until he was defeated by newcomer Jack Layton in 1982. He returned to Metro Council in the 1990s representing a suburban North York ward of Don Parkway Ward 11 from 1994 until 2000 when he retired from electoral politics.
In the 1987 provincial election, Chong was a Progressive Conservative candidate in York Mills, losing by 3000 votes to Liberal Brad Nixon.
In 2010 he served as a part of new mayor Rob Ford's transition team.
In 2011, without conducting a search or interviewing other candidates, he was given a $100,000-a-year salary by Rob Ford to head up the Toronto Transit Commission’s consulting subsidiary.
Grace Park

Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-born Canadian actress. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various other iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont. Park was co-starring in A&E's The Cleaner until it was cancelled September 25, 2009 and currently stars in the CBC's The Border in Canada. Park will play detective Kona Kalakaua in CBS' remake of Hawaii Five-O , which will debut in the fall of 2010.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Park and her family moved to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kerrisdale. Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary in 1992 and holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. Park understands some Korean and is currently studying Spanish. As of 2004, Park lives in Vancouver with her husband, Phil Kim. She was named #93 in Maxim Online's 2006 Hot 100 List and named #81 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
Park has a role in the 2007 movie West 32nd, a crime drama dealing with New York City’s Korean underworld.
She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer.
In 2008, she had co-starring roles in the A&E series The Cleaner and the CBC series The Border. In 2009, Park had an uncredited cameo role on the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She appeared as a fan in a crowd at a science fiction convention, objecting to a gritty remake of a Star Trek-like series, comparable to the Battlestar Galactica remake in which she starred. In 2009 she reprised her role as Sharon aka cylon Number Eight from Battlestar Galactica in the television movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. It told the series story from the cylons' point of view. In 2010, she appeared in Fox series Human Target as Eva Kahn.
Grahame Shannon

*Squid Master
**Touchsquid Technology Inc.
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry
September 2010 – Present (1 year 11 months)
*Designer and CEO. Developed the concept of an Android based Universal remote control and took it to production.
**President
Avia Design Group
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry
1995 – 2011 (16 years)
*Founder and inventor of Autoship's pioneering 3D ship design system. Took the company from a basement operation to a World leading supplier to the ship and yacht design industries.
**Founder and President
Autoship Systems Inc.
August 1980 – June 1995 (14 years 11 months)
*Software developer for 3D CAD Yacht and Ship design.
**Technical Specialist
MAI Basic Four
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
1969 – 1973 (4 years)
*Technician of last resort. When nobody else could fix a computer, they called me in.
**Technical Specialist
MAI Basic Four
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
1969 – 1973 (4 years)
Provide last ditch support for local computer repair techs. IBM mainframes.
Gu Xiong

Gu Xiong is a multimedia artist and photographer originally from Chongquing, Sichuan in the People's Republic of China.
In 1972, during the Cultural Revolution, Gu Xiong was sent to the remote countryside.
With millions of other youths, he was forced into "re-education" with peasant teachers. He laboured in the fields under extremely primitive conditions for four years. By the light of a kerosene lantern, he started to draw the people and objects around him. Drawing became an obsession and gave him strength.
After being allowed to return to the city, he earned a BFA and MFA at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute where he also taught traditional woodcut printmaking. His first link with Canada came in 1986 when he was invited to take part in an exchange program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 1989, Gu Xiong finally had to flee China as a result of his participation in Beijing's China/Avant Garde show and in the Tiananmen Square demonstration.
Gu Xiong has an MFA and BFA from the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in China. He has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Simon Fraser University, Kwantlen University College and the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts. He was among five artists in Here not There, an exhibition held in the spring of 1995 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which explored issues of artists born and educated in China and re-established in Vancouver. Xiong currently is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of british Columbia.
Gu Xiong's multimedia installation in the VAG exhibition was selected by a jury made up of Nam June Paik, Cynthia Goodman and Hong Hee Kim for the Kwangju Biennale '95 in Kwangju, Korea. Gu Xiong has not looked back since. In the fall of 2004, he was a featured artist at the Shanghai Biennale, China's foremost international exhibition for contemporary art. His massive photo installation, I am Shanghainese, was mounted on the exterior walls of the Shanghai Art Museum.
Gu Xiong has received numerous awards and has collaborated with artists from England, the United States, China and Canada. He has written two books as well as articles for art catalogues, magazines and newspapers.
The Diane Farris Gallery has promoted Gu Xiong's work since 1991. In the summer of 1998, Gu Xiong returned to China with his family for the first time in ten years. The photos, videos and drawings from this trip were exhibited in China Diary, 2001. Most recently, Xiong has been photographing visual paradoxes found in the culture of China as her people begin to adopt Westernized practices and products.
Guru Nanak's Free Kitchen

The Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen, concept was developed in the summer of 2007 when a group of like minded individuals got together and wanted to help with feeding those in need in Vancouver and do so by encouraging Sikh youth and organizations to volunteer their time and services.
The practice of langar – the communal kitchen and seva – the selfless service of humanity; philosophies taught by our first Guru, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji many hundreds of years ago. For the Sikh community, this project is not missionary in nature, instead it is an opportunity for us to extend this true Sikh spirit of helping those in need regardless of caste, colour, creed, and economic status.
This first free kitchen event took place in November/December 2007 and was a six day program that attracted hundreds of volunteers and most importantly we are proud to say it did make a real difference that week to those in need. Subsequent events are now taking place on a weekly and monthly schedule and please check in with this website for schedule updates.
This project is a collective effort by the entire Sikh community.
If you would like to contact Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen, email is the best method through gurunanaksfreekitchen@gmail.com – please do note that we are volunteers and sometimes it takes a little while to respond to all inquires.
H.A. Der-Hovagimian

H.A. Der-Hovagimian (sometimes spelled Ter-Hovakimyan, (Traditional Armenian: Յարութիւն Տեր-Յովակիմեան, Eastern Armenian: Հարություն Տեր-Հովակիմյան)) born in Toronto, Canada, is a Canadian-Armenian music composer, songwriter and producer.
He signed his first recording contract with the newly found Hi-Bias Records imprint at the age of 17. For the following 15 years, he was mainly credited under the adopted pseudonym Mark Ryan.
For years, his main focus was his Temperance project. Starting out as a solo Tech house project, his debut commercial release was the 5-track Phantasy EP, released early 1992 on Hi-Bias Records. Temperance eventually crossed over into a more Dance-pop/Eurodance sound with the inclusion of Mark's schoolmate Lorraine Reid on vocals. Over the next couple of years Temperance won numerous top ten hits, awards, and licenses worldwide.
By 19, Mark's on the side successful remix works also led to Billboard magazine titling him one of the top remixers from Canada. In 1996, Temperance peaked with its hi-nrg cover version of the 1980s hit "Forever Young".
In 1997, after the releases of S.P.O.T. (Side Project of Temperance) and the Temperance single "Universal Dream", Mark parted ways to launch 22 Green Productions, primarily focusing on producing and remixing various local and international artists, such as soulDecision, 666, Urban Cookie Collective, Mia Minx, Emjay, and more.
Over the years, he has been credited with producing and/or remixing over 300 commercially released titles in various genres under various aliases. From 1997-2006 22 Green was the credited title of most his remix works, and from 2006, he began replacing his credited pseudonym Mark Ryan with DerHova (a variation of his real name). 
His song "Qele Qele" performed by Sirusho was Armenia's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. DerHova composed the song, thought up the title, and produced the original and remix versions of the song. Out of 43 participating countries, it went on to rank 4th (Armenia's highest position), and received the most 12 points in the competition. 
On September 5, 2010, his production of Mama performed by Vladimir Arzumanyan, was selected as Armenia's entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010. On November 20, the song went on to collect the most points (including the most 12 points) to win the contest, Armenia's first Eurovision victory.
Hana Kim

Hana Kim was recently appointed Head, Asian Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. 
She was previously a University of Toronto's Acting Director, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library and a Korea Studies Librarian, also at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. 
At the University of Toronto from October 2013 to May 2014 , Hana was actively engaged in promoting Asian Canadian writers, musicians, filmmakers, and scholars in a year-long Asian Canadian Conference featuring such personas as Denise Chong, Judy Fong Bates, King Wong, Irene Chu, Maurice Poon, Kuilan Liu, Donald Quan, Aminur Rahim, Adrienne Chan, Josephine Wong, Min Sook Lee, and Terry Watada. The conference was chaired by noted Toronto writer, Arlene Chan.
Hana Kim obtained a National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters accreditation in Australia. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Education (German Language and English Language) from the Korea National University of Education in South Korea. She earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from McGill University in Canada. 
Hana is an active translator. She has also contributed translations and original poems to various publications including the yearly anthology journal Variety Crossing, which promotes multiculturalism in Canada, and Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women (Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education, 2007). She won the Sunshik Min Prize of the First Annual Min Chapbook Competition for her translation of poems by Chunhak Kwon (Cheonhak Kwon). She is the translator of 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O, (Larkspur, CA: Tamal Vista Publications, 2011).
Besides her interest in translating, her research interests include collaborative collection development, Asian Canadian heritage (Korean Canadian heritage in particular), and diversity issues.
Haninder Dhillon

Haninder Dhillon (born 27 October 1976, India) is a Canadian cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Canada on 28 May 2004 in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against the USA in Florida. He has played five games in that tournament in total. He made his One Day International debut for Canada on 16 May 2006 against Zimbabwe in Trinidad, and has played two ODIs in total. He also represented Canada in the 2004 ICC Americas Championship and the 2005 ICC Trophy.
Hannah Simone

Hannah Simone is a Canadian television host, actress, and former fashion model. From May 2006 to November 2008, she worked as a VJ for MuchMusic in Canada, and now stars as Cece Meyers on New Girl.
Hannah Simone was born on August 3, 1980 in London, England. She is of Indian origin on her father's side, and her mother is half German-Italian and half Greek-Cypriot. Simone spent her early childhood in Calgary, Alberta. From ages 7–10, Simone moved through three continents, attending schools in each. At the age of 13, Simone was living in Cyprus, and was working as a fashion model and was featured on the cover of a leading local fashion publication. 
At 16 years old, Simone lived in New Delhi, India and attended the American Embassy school and at 17 returned to Canada. Initially settling at White Rock, British Columbia, then subsequently relocating to Vancouver.
Harbourfront Centre

Harbourfront Centre, on Toronto's waterfront, is an innovative not-for-profit cultural organization that creates events and activities of excellence that enliven, educate and entertain a diverse public.
==Mission==
To nurture the growth of new cultural expression, stimulate Canadian and international interchange and provide a dynamic, accessible environment for the public to experience the marvels of the creative imagination.
==Vision==
A vibrant home for the culture of our time, inspiring people through the magic of the creative spirit.
==Quick Facts about Harbourfront Centre==
*Governed by a 26-person community based volunteer Board of Directors
*10-acre site attracts over 12 million visits each year
*Creator and presenter of over 4,000 events annually
*Partner to more than 450 community and cultural groups annually
*Multidisciplinary artistic and cultural focus showcasing works in contemporary visual arts, crafts, literature, music, dance and theatre for adults and children
*Operator of two marinas and five parking lots
*Host to 30,000 children at School Visits and 4,500 children at Camps annually
*Assisted by approximately 2,000 volunteers who generously contribute their efforts and time
*Supported by government grants and contributions which constitute about 1/3 of our annual operating budget
*Driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit to generate revenues to support 2/3 of our annual operating budget
*All events and programmes are offered at reasonable prices or are completely free of charge
Hardial Bains

Born in India into a Communist family in the Punjab, Bains became a member of the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was dismayed by what he saw as the revisionism of Nikita Khrushchev following the death of Joseph Stalin, and he broke with the CPI when it supported Khrushchev's criticisms of Stalin.
In 1963, he founded the Internationalists,[2] an anti-revisionist organization that supported Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China in the Sino-Soviet split. This organisation (in Canada) ultimately became the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (CPC-ML), of which Bains was the founding leader.
In 1967, Bains held a conference in London to determine the future of the anti-revisionist movement, the "Necessity for Change" conference. The Irish Communist Organisation disagreed with the other delegates and walked out of the meeting. Bains was a leader of the anti-revisionist movement internationally, and assisted in establishing Marxist-Leninist parties around the world, such as the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago, the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), and the Communist Ghadar Party of India. Bains was also responsible for the founding of the Hindustani Ghadar Party (Organisation of Indian Marxist-Leninists Abroad). He held a leading influence in the Marxist-Leninist Party, USA in the 1970s. (This party was dissolved in 1993.) Modern Communism has written articles on his Marxist-Leninist legacy.
Many of these parties originally held a "Maoist" position in the 1960s and 1970s, and Bains was often identified as a Maoist. However, following Mao Zedong's death in 1976, they would later reject Mao Zedong Thought, particularly through the experience of the Sino-Albanian split. Following the leadership of Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour, Bains' anti-revisionism deepened in the sense of opposition both to the European revisionism (Khrushchev, Josip Broz Tito and Eurocommunism) and to the Chinese revisionism.
A memorial was erected in the honour of Bains and other CPC-ML "fallen comrades" in Ottawa's Beechwood Cemetery. Poet George Elliot Clarke published a poem titled "Homage to Hardial Bains" in 2000 in the Oyster Boy Review. Bains was attacked posthumously by Ben Seattle in an article on Leninism.org entitled In memory of a charlatan.
Bains wrote several books, including Necessity for Change!, Modern Communism, Visiting Cuba, If You Love Your Class and Thinking About the Sixties, as well as many more articles, pamphlets and speeches.
Sandra L. Smith, his widow, also served as leader of the CPC-ML.
Harry Bains

Harry Bains is the current MLA for Surrey-Newton in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.
Bains has been active in Surrey for many years. He has experience in education due to his many years of service on the Kwantlen University College Board of Governors from 1993 and 1999. He has also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.
Bains was an elected officer of Steelworkers-IWA Canada local 2171 for over fifteen years. He served most recently as vice president of his local chapter, in which he led negotiations and helped in bargaining efforts. 
Bains and his wife Rajvinder live in Surrey with their two children, Kulpreet and Jasmeen. He is active in the Sikh community in Canada.
Harry Lali

Harry Lali is the current MLA for Fraser-Nicola in the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 1991 election he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as MLA for Yale-Lillooet, and was re-elected in 1996. Lali served as the Minister of Transportation from 1998 to 2001. For the 2001 election, he chose not to run for re-election. He returned to the Assembly by winning his riding in the 2005 election ahead of BC Liberal Party candidate Lloyd Forman and Green Party candidate Michael McLean. He was once again elected in the newly created riding of Fraser-Nicola in the 2009 election.
He is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, and serves as opposition critic for Multiculturalism.
Hassan Khosrowshahi

Hassan Khosrowshahi (born 1940 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born Canadian entrepreneur. In Iran, Khosrowshahi earned degrees in economics and law from the University of Tehran. He settled in Vancouver in 1981. In 1982, Khosrowshahi founded Canadian electronics retailer, Future Shop. The chain expanded throughout western Canada and Ontario in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The chain later expanded further into Quebec and Atlantic Canada. By 2006, the chain was operating a total of 118 stores in all ten Canadian provinces. In April 2007 he became chairman of The Fraser Institute’s board of trustees.
After an ill-fated attempt to expand into the United States, which lasted about a decade, all US locations closed in 1999. In November 2001, Khosrowshahi sold his company to US retailer Best Buy.
Khosrowshahi had an estimated net worth of $770 million CDN in 2008.2008-09 Rich List Canadian Business Online