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Ravi Kahlon

Ravinder ("Ravi") Kahlon (born May 15, 1979 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian field hockey player.
Kahlon earned his first international senior cap for the Men's National Team in 2000 against Malaysia in Brussels. The defender started playing field hockey at age twelve in the Victoria League with his father; he was selected with the Junior National Team in 1999 and was named team captain. Kahlon was a student at Camosun College in Victoria.
Ravi Zacharias

Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian apologist. Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? and bestsellers Light in the Shadow of Jihad and The Grand Weaver. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, host of the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking, and visiting professor at Wycliffe Hall of Oxford, where he teaches apologetics and evangelism. Zacharias studied as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and held the chair in Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1984. Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."
Ray Hsu

Dr. Ray Hsu is author of two award-winning books of poetry. While completing his Ph.D. in English Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught for over two years at in US prison, where he founded the Prison Writing Workshop.
He teaches poetry at UBC, where he taught the first-ever Asian Canadian Creative Writing workshop. He is also former editor of Ricepaper magazine. He lectures widely on creativity, including a TEDxSFU talk on "How to Live a Creative Life."
Books
Anthropy (Nightwood Editions, 2004, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award, nominated for a Trillium Book Award in Poetry)
Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon (Nightwood Editions, 2010, winner of an Alcuin Award)
""Lectures""
How to Live a Creative Life <<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVIQFGQVUc&list=PLsRNoUx8w3rOYa4xS9lgkQZpgrCRQyksz&index=7&feature=plpp_video
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Raymond Chan

Raymond Chan, PC (Chinese: 陳卓愉; pinyin: Chén Zhuōyú; Jyutping: Can4 Ceok3 Jyu4), (b. 1951) is the first Chinese Canadian to be appointed to the Cabinet of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Chan was elected to Parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating then Defence Minister Tom Siddon in the riding of Richmond, British Columbia. Chan is the third Chinese Canadian to be elected to Parliament, after Douglas Jung, who secured a seat in 1957, and Art Lee in 1974. In 2008, Chan lost his riding of Richmond to Conservative candidate Alice Wong. He and Inky Mark are the longest serving Canadian parliamentarians of Chinese root.
Raymond Chan was born in Hong Kong on October 25, 1951. He emigrated to Canada in 1969, two years after Canada liberalized its immigration policy. He received a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1977. From 1977 to 1993, he worked as an engineer for TRIUMF, a particle accelerator laboratory at UBC.
Chan joined the Liberal Party of Canada in 1991, and was elected to Parliament in the 1993 election,[1] defeating Defence Minister Tom Siddon in the riding of Richmond, British Columbia. Chan secured the nomination win over future cabinet colleague Herb Dhaliwal, who subsequently chose to run in the adjacent Vancouver South riding. He was then appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as the Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific Region for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He served in this position from 1993 to 2000.
He was defeated in the 2000 election by Joe Peschisolido of the Canadian Alliance. After Peschisolido crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, Chan battled Peschisolido for the Liberal Party's nomination, and won it after a fiercely-contested race.
Chan returned to Parliament in the 2004 election. He was subsequently appointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister Paul Martin as the Minister of State (Multiculturalism) for the Department of Heritage.
Chan was re-elected in 2006, and served as Opposition Critic for the Asia Pacific, Seniors, the Social Economy, and Canadian Border Security throughout the 39th session of Parliament.
He was succeeded by Conservative Alice Wong in the election of 2008, when the Federal Liberal vote in British Columbia fell to a low of 19%.
Raymond Louie

Raymond Louie (雷建华; born January 16, 1965) is a three term Vancouver City Councillor and a former school Trustee. Formerly a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors civic party, Louie broke away and was re-elected in 2005, and again in 2008, as a member of Vision Vancouver.
==Background==
Born and raised in East Vancouver, with ancestry from Zhongshan, Guangdong his family ran a local bakery. He was the youngest of three siblings. He attended Nootka Elementary School and Windermere Secondary School. After graduating from high school he attended British Columbia Institute of Technology, yet never graduated. Louie worked at Mail-O-Matic Services, a local mailing house, and as a mailer with Pacific Newspaper Group. While working at Pacific Newspaper Group, Louie became a National Representative for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
==Vancouver City Council==
Louie was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 2002, and was re-elected in 2005 and 2008.
As a City Councillor, Louie is on a number of local organizations, including, the Parent Advisory Committee for Maquinna Annex and Community Visions, a community liaison group in Hastings-Sunrise.
In Council, Louie has served in numerous city committees:
*Member, Standing Committee on Planning and Environment
*Member, Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic
*Member, Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets
*Director, Vancouver Parking Corporation
*Director, Vancouver Civic Theatres Board
*Co-Chair, Steering Committee for the redevelopment of Southeast False Creek
*Vice-Chair, City Creative Task Force
*Co-Chair, Mayor's Working Group on Immigration
*Director, Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)
*Director, GVRD Labour Relations Bureau
*Director, GVRD Finance Committee
*Director, Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (GVTA)
*Director, GVTA Finance and Audit Committee
*member of COPE
==Homeless Emergency Action Team==
Louie was one of three elected officials who served on Homeless Emergency Action Team, which conceived the controversial Homeless Emergency Action Team (HEAT) shelters.
==Mayoral Aspirations==
In a 2007 interview, former Vancouver Mayor and current Senator, Larry Campbell, described Louie as a future mayor of Vancouver. Campbell added that he still holds that view, but wouldn't say if Louie should run for mayor in 2008. "That would be up to Raymond," Campbell said. "I just know that someday he'll be mayor. I don't know when that will be." On March 12, 2008, Louie announced his intention to run for the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination. In an effort to secure the Vision Vancouver nomination, Louie outspent all mayoral hopefuls by spending a total of $243,621. However in June 2008 he was defeated in the Vision Vancouver nomination race by Gregor Robertson, who went on to win the subsequent general election.
==Family life==
Louie lives in East Vancouver with his wife Tonya and their three children. He is an avid cyclist and has participated in the Gastown Grand Prix and Tour de White Rock.
Raymond Setlakwe

Raymond C. Setlakwe, (born July 3, 1928) is a Canadian entrepreneur, lawyer, and former senator.
Born in Thetford Mines, Quebec, of Armenian descent, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Bishop's University and an L.L.L from Université Laval.
He was summoned to the Senate in 2000 on the advice of Jean Chrétien and represented the senatorial division of The Laurentides, Quebec. He was a member of the Liberal caucus and retired at the age of 75 in 2003.
He is married to Yvette and has four children.
In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Rehka Sharma

Rekha Shanti Sharma is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica.
Her ancestors are from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which they left during the British period. Her family resettled in the Fiji Islands and her parents moved to Canada. She has an older brother, Sunil, who is 9 years her senior.
Sharma started to pursue acting as a career in her 20s. She has stage experience[citation needed] but also appeared in television shows like Da Vinci's City Hall, The Lone Gunmen, Smallville, Supernatural, John Doe, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone and the 2009 re-imagined TV series of V.
She also appeared in the movies The Core and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. For fun, she paints and plays the sarangi, a stringed musical instrument.
Rekha Sharma

Rekha Shanti Sharma is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica.
Her ancestors are from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which they left during the British period. Her family resettled in the Fiji Islands and her parents moved to Canada. She has an older brother, Sunil, who is nine years her senior. 
Sharma started to pursue acting as a career in her 20s. She has stage experience but also appeared in television series like Da Vinci's City Hall, House M.D., The Lone Gunmen, Smallville, Supernatural, John Doe, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, Sanctuary, Hellcats, The Listener, and the 2009 re-imagined television series of V.
She also appeared in the movies The Core and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. For fun, she paints and plays the sarangi, a stringed musical instrument
Photographe by Luigi Novi; see the image for attribution.
Rena Heer

Rena Heer is a Canadian television personality on CP24 as of February 2009. From January 28, 2008 to June 6, 2008, she handled weather along with Jeff Hutcheson on CTV's Canada AM which was a revamped version of the national Canada AM show. On June 6, 2008, CTV announced that it was cancelling the Vancouver portion of its national morning show, "Canada AM".News1130 - ALL NEWS RADIO The national show continues to air without Rena Heer and co-host Mi-Jung Lee.
Heer attended Simon Fraser University on a scholarship where she studied for her undergraduate degree in communications. After completing her degree, she was hired by a local software company and spent the next five years in software business development, while contributing part-time to various local South Asian media. Translating her interpersonal skills, promotions and marketing experience as well as her experience with the South Asian community to the television industry, she took the role of community relations manager at Channel M upon the station's launch in late spring of 2003. While also at Channel M, she hosted the station's community segment, Channel M Preview, as well as a cooking show called Fusion Fare.
She left Channel M in September 2005 for her position as a traffic reporter at Global BC. Heer left Global BC on December 7, 2007 to join CTV's Canada AM as a weather presenter for Western Canada.
Rena works on CP24 as an Anchor/Reporter. Due to maternity leave, she temporarily left CP24 in November 2010, but has returned in April 2011.
Reza Moridi

Reza Moridi (Persian: رضا مریدی) Azer.com: Born in the Azerbaijani-populated city of Urumieh in Iran, Moridi has degrees (MTech and Ph.D.) from Brunel (UK). is a Canadian politician, and the first Iranian-Canadian elected to a provincial or federal legislature in Canada.Richmond Hill: Liberal is first Iranian-Canadian MPP The Toronto Star[http://www.rezamoridi.onmpp.ca/DocumentEN.aspx?id=314 Reza Moridi's Official PageTVO: The AgendaPayvand News[http://www.salamtoronto.ca/News-Detail-Engl.asp?ArtID=D76A499 Salam Toronto Weekly Publications He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Richmond Hill. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
Ricepaper Magazine

Ricepaper is a national quarterly magazine devoted to showcasing Asian-Canadian artists, writers, performers and innovators. We are published by the Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop, which has assisted Asian Canadian writers in publishing and showcasing their work since 1969.
=History=
Ricepaper is a national literary arts magazine committed to providing voice and focus on East Asian and Southeast Asian culture. A forum for inclusive, representative and progressive dialogue, Ricepaper showcases the quality work by artists, scholars, and cultural producers that reflects the diverse interests of Asian Canadians. By providing an alternative to mainstream media for both readers and advertisers, Ricepaper strives to connect the local, national, and global community by challenging the parameters of how Asian Canadians are perceived and defined.
In 1995, Ricepaper had humble beginnings as a newsletter for the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Over time, it evolved into a magazine that was distributed coast to coast. Ricepaper has continuously remade itself, changing its design, style and even, in recent years, its size (from a 8.5-by-11-inch magazine size to a 6.5 by 9 inches literary journal size). However, Ricepaper has been consistent in its commitment to providing a voice to a vibrant and evolving Asian Canadian identity and culture and a venue for inclusive, representative and progressive dialogue.
Ricepaper is published four times a year by the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, is distributed by Magazines Canada and Emma Marian Ltd. and is printed by Hemlock Printers Ltd.
Richard Fung

Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, writer, theorist and educator. He holds a degree in cinema studies as well as an ME in sociology and cultural studies, both from the University of Toronto. He is Associate Professor in the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
His work comprises of a series of challenging videos on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. His tapes, which include My Mother’s Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000) and Uncomfortable (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States.
His essays have been published in many journals and anthologies, and he is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002), recently updated and translated into French. Richard is a past Rockefeller Fellow at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video as well as the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art.
Fung has always seen himself as much as an educator as an artist, and in Helen Lee’s essay ‘Dirty Dozen: Playing 12 Questions with Richard Fung’ from Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung (Images Festival and Insomniac Press, 2002), Fung says he aims to produce work which is ‘pedagogical, but hopefully not pedantic’. Richard is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and politics.
Richard Lee

Richard T. Lee was first elected as the MLA for the riding of Burnaby North in 2001 and was re-elected in May 2005 and 2009. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Asia-Pacific on September 26, 2011.
Currently, Richard also serves as member of the Cabinet Committee on Open Government and Engagement, the Legislative Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth, LSSC on Health and LSSC on Legislative Initiatives.
Previously, Richard served as Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism (2011) and Parliamentary Secretary for the Asia-Pacific Initiative (2005-2011), Vice Chair of the Legislative Special Committee to Appoint a Merit Commissioner and Chair of Government Caucus Asian Economic Development Committee.
He was also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Climate Action and Clean Energy, the Legislative Select Standing Committee on Education, the LSSC on Public Accounts, the LSSC on Finance and Government Services, the Legislative Special Committee to Review the Police Complaint Process, the LSC to Appoint a Police Complaint Commissioner, the Government Caucus Committee on Economy and Government Operations and the GCC on Multiculturalism and Diversity.
Before being elected to the Legislature, Richard was a programmer analyst at TRIUMF, Canada’s national particle research facility. In 1976 he earned a Combined Honours Bachelor of Science degree from UBC in physics and mathematics, and in 1980 a Masters of Science from UBC in Applied Mathematics. While studying, Richard worked as a research assistant from 1975 to 1977 and then as a teaching assistant from 1977 to 1979 with the Department of Mathematics at UBC. From 1979 to 1982 he worked as a programmer at TRIUMF and in 1982 became a programmer analyst. Richard attended the United States Particle Accelerator School at Berkeley in 1989 and once again in 1990 at Harvard University.
Richard’s community service included: British Columbia Heritage Language Association director; Burnaby District Parents’ Advisory Council member, Burnaby Chinese Parents Association vice-president; Burnaby Multicultural Society director; Burnaby Voters Non-Partisan Association director and Civic Education Society director.
In 1971, Richard moved to British Columbia, where his grandfather settled in 1913. He and his wife Anne married in 1986 and have lived in Burnaby since then. They have three children.
Richie Mehta

Richie Mehta (born in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. His first feature film, Amal, was released in 2008, and was nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards.
His brother Shaun is a writer. Amal was based on a short story from his 2005 collection A Slice of Life. Richie and Shaun are not related to film director Deepa Mehta."A bright beginning", Toronto Star, August 30, 2007.
Richie attended the University of Toronto-Mississauga as an undergraduate, and he worked at the Medium, the UTM campus newspaper, as arts editor and editor-in-chief.
Rick Shiomi

Rick Shiomi is a Japanese Canadian sansei born in Toronto in 1947. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1970 and received a teaching diploma from Simon Fraser University in 1972. Among his accomplishments, he was the coordinator for the Powell Street Festival in its early years, he was a founding member of Katari Taiko and he is one of the leading Asian Canadian/American playwrights. Major Asian American theater companies have produced his plays Yellow Fever, Rosie’s Café, Uncle Tadao and Play Ball. Yellow Fever has been produced OFF Broadway, at the Edinburgh Festival and in Japanese in Tokyo. Among his recent plays are Mask Dance, Tale of the Dancing Crane and Song of the Pipa. Relocating to Minnesota in the 1990’s, he is presently the Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts which represents two performing groups, Theater Mu and Mu Daiko, of which he is founder.
Rita Choy-Ng

== About ==
"Rita Choy-Ng is an international artist. Her work has been shown in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, U.S.A., Canada, France and Austria. She was educated in China, Hong Kong, Canada and Austria, gaining a B.A. in Economics from Lingnan University in China. She later graduated in fine arts from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Canada and furthered her art studies in Austria. 
She had published two books on her art: GLORY to GOD and SONGS of GOD. 
Rita is a Christian and she experienced the world through the eyes of a Christian as laid out in the Bible. It is her wish to bring glory to God through her artwork and to render God’s glory visible to the world via her paintings. 
Rita’s paintings have won more than 15 awards from 1977 to 2007, including a First Place Award in ARTVENTURE by CFS – a juried exhibition by the Colour and Form Society of Canada in 1999 on the theme “A Journey into the New Millennium”. She was also presented with the Second Best Painting in Acrylic Award at SCA - the Society of Canadian Artists’ National Open Juried Exhibition in 2006, and the Award of Merit at OSA - the Ontario Society of Artists’ 133rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition in 2007. She won the Best Abstract Painting at CFS’s Open Juried Biennial Exhibition in 2006, and more recently in 2007, she won the First Place Abstract Award at SCA’s 40th National Open Juried Exibition in Montreal, and an Honourable Mention Award at the SCA’s 50th Anniversary All Members’ Juried Exhibition from Coast to Coast in Calgary. In addition, one of her paintings, Don River At Night #2, was collected into the Government of Ontario’s art archive."
Rita Ueda

Rita Ueda is a composer, sound designer, and music teacher in Vancouver, Canada. Her recent works include forty years of snowfall will not heal an ancient forest for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Escape from the Evil Alien Surfblasters for 8 hand piano ensemble, and Still Shaking from the Latte, a piano solo for Misuzu Kitazumi-Burns, a member of the LA Piano Unit.
Her as the snowflakes return to the sky for string orchestra was awarded 2nd prize in the 2010/11 International Gustav Mahler Composition Competition, and it will be performed next season by the Vienna Radio Symphony and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
Rita was born in Hakodate, Japan, to a family of musicians, poets, dancers and engineers. She moved to Vancouver, Canada with her family in 1971. Rita studied composition and sound design at Simon Fraser University and the California Institute of the Arts. Her teachers include Rudolf Komoros, Rodney Sharman, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick and Stephen L. Mosko.
Rita Wong

Rita Wong is a Canadian poet. 
She grew up in Calgary, Alberta and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of two books of poetry, monkeypuzzle and forage. Her work investigates the relationships between social justice, ecology, decolonization, and contemporary poetics. Wong is an assistant professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, teaching Critical and Cultural Studies. She has another course in development, Cultivating Ecological, Cross-Cultural, and Interdisciplinary Contemplations of Water. She is also a visiting instructor at the University of Miami.
Rizwan Cheema

Rizwan Ahmed Cheema (born 15 August 1978) is a cricketer who represents the Canadian national team.
Cheema made his international debut at the age of 30 in the Scotiabank ODI series in King City, Ontario in August 2008. In just his second appearance, he hit 89 off 61 deliveries against the West Indies, and he followed that up with 61 off 45 balls against the same opposition two days later. Following those performances, he was also selected for the international Twenty20 series in King City in October 2008, scoring 68 off 43 balls against Sri Lanka in his third game. Cheema also play for Popeyes Cricket Club in Toronto, It is one of the best clubs in Toronto. Popeyes Cricket Club also have players from he national side like Saad Bin Zafar, Khurram Chohan, and Hiral Patel. He has also made the shortlist for the 2010 IPL contract auction, he is one of 51 people to do so from an original list of 97.
Rob Nijjar

Rob Nijjar (born 1967) is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before becoming active in politics. Nijjar worked as a business manager for several firms including Jenny Craig, some family-run restaurants, and other service industry businesses. Nijjar worked at various levels of government, including municipal, provincial, and federal politics.
Nijjar was first elected to the BC Legislature in the 2001 provincial election as a Liberal. Nijjar was the chair of the Government Caucus Committee on the Economy. At one time he was also sat on the Legislative Standing Committee for Education and chaired the Sub-Committee on Youth Employment.
Nijjar was defeated in the provincial election of 2005 by Adrian Dix.