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Aditya Jha

Aditya Jha, LL.D is a celebrated Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist with active involvement in Canadian public affairs. A globetrotter, his business portfolio consists of several start-ups and turn-arounds with interests in Canada, India, Switzerland, Thailand and Nepal.Aditya Jha's profile on the Star He also runs several philanthropic initiatives through his Private Charitable Foundation (POA Educational Foundation),POA Educational Foundation promoting education and nurturing entrepreneurship to equalize the access to opportunity for those not so fortunate. Jha takes special interest in nurturing prosperity and financial independence amongst Canadian First Nations (aboriginal) communities and individuals through education scholarships at top Canadian universities and a project (Project Beyshick) that nurtures entrepreneurship.Canadian Immigrant He is the co-founder and outgoing National Convenor of the Canada India Foundation—a public policy organization.CIF Executives He is winner of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award (2010), inductee to the '30 most influential Indo-Canadians Power List (2009)', and recipient of Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Ryerson University - the highest honour conferred by the University.CANADA HAS CHOSEN: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_25_Canadian_Immigrants_Award TOP 25 CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS OF 2010]
Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk is a sports anchor, currently for ESPN. He was previously an anchor for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment's Raptors NBA TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV. Until June 2009 he hosted several programs on The Score, and was previously an associate producer for Sportscentre at TSN. He was also the co-host of Omniculture and Bollywood Boulevard at Omni Television.
In 1972, his parents immigrated to Canada from Pakistan. He was born in Toronto, but spent his formative years in Morven, Ontario, a small town just outside of Kingston. After graduating from high school, he took radio and television arts at Ryerson University.
In 2009, he joined Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) as a host and reporter for Raptors TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV Canada. He left in April 2010 to join the ESPN family of stations in Bristol, Connecticut.
Adnan is married and has two children.
Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Louise Clarkson PC CC CMM COM CD FRSC(hon) FRAIC(hon) FRCPSC(hon) (Chinese: 伍冰枝; pinyin: Wǔ Bīngzhī; née Poy, February 10, 1939) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation.
Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941, as a refugee from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, and was raised in Ottawa. After receiving a number of university degrees, Clarkson worked as a producer and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and a journalist for various magazines. Her first diplomatic posting came in the early 1980s, when she promoted Ontarian culture in France and other European countries. She was in 1999 appointed as governor general by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, to replace Roméo LeBlanc as viceroy and she occupied the post until succeeded by Michaëlle Jean in 2005. While Clarkson's appointment as the Canadian vicereine was generally welcomed at first, she caused some controversy during her time serving as the Queen's representative, mostly due to costs incurred in the operation of her office, as well as a somewhat anti-monarchist attitude toward the position.
On October 3, 2005, Clarkson was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada,[1] giving her the accordant style of The Honourable; however, as a former Governor General of Canada, Clarkson is entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable. She subsequently published her memoirs, founded the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, and became Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
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Adrienne Clarkson/fr

La Très Honorable Adrienne Louise Clarkson C.P CC CMM COM CD FRSC(hon) FRAIC(hon) née Poy, (chinois : 伍冰枝 ; pinyin : Wǔ Bīngzhī ; hakka : Ńg Pên-kî), née le à Hong Kong, fut le vingt-sixième gouverneur général du Canada, du 7 octobre 1999 au 27 septembre 2005. 
Elle est le premier Gouverneur Général du Canada n'ayant pas de carrière politique ou militaire ainsi que le premier d'origine immigré. Elle est la deuxième femme après Jeanne Sauvé à occuper ce poste.
Elle est actuellement co-présidente de l'institut pour la citoyenneté canadienne et première canadienne à occuper le prestigieux poste de Colonel en Chef du Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
Afarin Mansouri Tehrani

Afarin Mansouri-Tehrani is the winner of the International Music Award of the 24th Iranian Music Festival 2008 composition competition, for her work for choir and orchestra. Horse and Fire was the winner of a piano duo competition by 2X10 Duo in 2009 and was performed in Canada and the US. She has participated in festivals such as Toronto Nuit Blanche and the KW Open Ears Festival, as well as other events with the Iranian Association of Waterloo. Her commissioned work Persian Abstracts for Violin and Piano was performed by St. Augustine Duo in Canadian Women Composers Program in 2011. Her first CD IMAGES was published in summer 2011, an electro-acoustic work for meditation and relaxation. Afarin completed her Master’s degree in Music Composition in 2010 at the University of Toronto. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Math and Computer Science from Iran, as well as a Bachelor’s in Music Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. She has studied composition with well-known Canadian composers such as Peter Hatch, Linda Cathlin Smith, Glenn Buhr, Christos Hatzis and Alexander Rapoport.
Aikido Yukon Association

Aikido Yukon, based in Whitehorse, has been growing and evolving since its inception in 2002, moving from humble beginnings offering occasional after school classes in both French and English in school gyms to a few students, to leasing its own space for a permanent dojo and offering 18 hours/week of quality programming for children and adults in addition to special seminars and summer camps. In 2010 the club had 167 students.
The technical director, Gaël Marchand has 25 years of experience in Aikido, 15 years of teaching and received his Professional Coach Certification in Aikido in 1998 in France. Two of his adult students recently received their black belts (Shodan) from the Japanese Aikido Federation (Tamura Sensei) in France, clearly demonstrating the high quality of the program being offered in Whitehorse. The same quality teaching has also been offered in the communities by Aikido Yukon with over 20 community seminars organized over the last 8 years (in Haines Junction, Dawson, Carcross, Pelly Crossing and Teslin). 
Since 2004 Aikido Yukon has been a non-profit association to promote Aikido, budo and Japanese culture. Classes are offered in both French and English.
Aiko Suzuki

Aiko Suzuki was a remarkable, prolific visual artist, who worked in a wide variety of media, ranging from textiles, to spray paint, to acrylic and oils, and monoprints. Her work extended beyond the canvas to include three-dimensional sculptures, such as dance sets and smaller multimedia works. She was a long-time collaborator with Toronto Dance Theatre co-founder and choreographer Patricia Beatty, and was involved in arts education through direct, hands-on film animation, and other art workshops, with countless students throughout Toronto for more than 25 years.
Suzuki's personal dynamism was both stunning and inspiring. Her final exhibition at ASpace, Toronto, in 2005, was a poetic presentation through four installations, of the treatment and process of living with breast cancer.
October 22, 1937-December 31, 2005
Ajit H. Someshwar

Ajit H. Someshwar is an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist based in Toronto, Canada. He is President & CEO of CSI Group of Companies. As per the Canadian Immigrant (magazine) (owned by the Toronto Star), he owns and has investments in dozens of others companies from custom draperies to real estate. He is the co-founder and outgoing National Convenor of the Canada India Foundation -- a public policy organization.CIF Executives Someshwar is appointee of the Government of Canada Board of the Export Development Canada -- Canada's export credit agency, offering innovative commercial solutions to help Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. Prior to this, during the 2008-2009 global recession crises, Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty appointed Someshwar to a 11-member advisory panel along with likes of Mike Lazaridis, Annette Verschuren and Geoff Beattie to advise him on the federal budget and the economy. It was announced that Someshwar, along with the other 10 members were only paid a dollar a year for their insight.
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Ajmer Rode

Ajmer Rode is a Canadian author writing in Punjabi as well as in English. His first work was non-fiction Vishva Di Nuhar on Einstein's Relativity in dialogue form inspired by Plato's Republic. Published by the Punjabi University in 1966, the book initiated a series of university publications on popular science and sociology. Rode's first poetry book Surti influenced by science and philosophical explorations was experimental and in words of critic Dr. Attar Singh 'has extended the scope of Punjabi language and given a new turn to Punjabi poetry'. His most recent poetry book Leela, more than 1000 pages long and co-authored with Navtej Bharati, is counted among the outstanding Punjabi literary works of the twentieth century. 
Ajmer Rode is regarded the founder of Punjabi theater in Canada. He wrote and directed the first Punjabi play Dooja Passa dealing with racism faced by minorities. This was followed by his full length play Komagata Maru based on a significant racial incident in British Columbia's history. Though it lacked professional direction the play generated considerable publicity inspiring theatrical interests in the Indian-Canadian community. His most recent English play Rebirth Of Gandhi was produced at Surrey Arts Center Canada) in 2004 to a full house.
Among Rode's significant translation is The Last Flicker an English rendering of a modern Punjabi classic novel Marhi Da Diva by Gurdial Singh who recently won the Gyan Peeth, India's highest literary award. The translation was published by the Indian Academy of Letters in 1993. Currently Rode is member of an international team of translators rendering Sufi songs from Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi into English; the project based in Los Angeles aims to produce a large multilingual book of original and translated songs sung by late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the legendary Sufi singer of the twentieth century. 
An active member of The Writers' Union of Canada, Ajmer Rode was on its National Council in 1994 and later chaired its Racial Minority Writers Committee; Currently he is co-ordinator of Vancouver's Punjabi Writers Forum, the oldest and influential Punjabi writers association in Canada. He has been founding member of several other Indian-Canadian literary and performing arts associations including Watno Dur Art Foundation, and India Music Society founded to promote classical Indian music in North America. He was the first secretary of Samaanta, an organization to oppose violence against women and is now on the advisory board of Chetna, a Vancouver based organization promoting minority rights and opposing Casteism. He has served on Canada Council and British Columbia Arts Council juries to award literary grants.
 
Rode was given the Best Overseas Punjabi Author award by the Punjab Languages Dept, India in 1994. Guru Nanak Dev University honored him with the "Prominent Citizen (literature)" award and the G.N. Engg. College with the "Poet of Life" award the same year. In Canada he has been honored with awards for Punjabi theater and translation.
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Akhtar Naraghi

Akhtar Naraghi is a Canadian poet, writer and scholar. 
She holds a doctorate in English literature from McGill University and works in English. Her novels are all written in the first person, and revolve around the narrator's efforts to make a home in new surroundings, in different cultures. She has published four novels, in the first three of which – The Big Green House (1994; short-listed for the QSPELL Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction in 1995), Blue Curtains (1999) and With Mara That Summer (2004) – the narrator-protagonist recounts episodes from her life, beginning in early childhood and ending with her declining years. Her latest novel, On the Train to My Village (2011), is a story of love and the artist's existence partly inspired by the author's time spent in the Gaspé region of Quebec.
Naraghi is also the author of three collections of verse, Legacy (1992), Solitude (1996) and Autumn Bird (2011), in addition to having contributed forewords, articles and short stories to numerous journals.
In 1987 she founded the International Organization of the Helen Prize for Women, named for Dr. Helen Caldicott, the creator of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The Helen Prize annually honors the achievements of women of the world, whatever their backgrounds or fields of endeavor.
Al Mukadam

Al Mukaddam is a Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
He graduated from Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario in 2003 and studied film at university. His debut directing film was Mookie's Law. He has also produced his shorts and documentaries.
His acting roles have included Angela Anaconda, Franklin, Radio Free Roscoe and guest appearances on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He also appeared in "Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story" and the Disney Channel Original Movie, Get a Clue. He is mostly known though for his role as Ray Brennan in Radio Free Roscoe.
Alan Kushan

Alan Kushan is a virtuoso composer, singer, actor, and poet and master santur player. 
Alan Kushan was born in Mahabad in Kurdestan (Iran) in 1960 and moved to Canada in 1988. He studied music and instrument-making in Zurich, Switzerland, and Cologne, Germany, and completed a Master of Music in Composition at Berlin University. He also studied with Yehudi Menuhin and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Kushan is a virtuoso composer, singer, actor, and poet and master santur player. His music blends traditional and contemporary techniques in an innovative and virtuosic style. Kushan has written for several combinations of instruments and soloists, and has recorded extensively. He is the recipient of many awards for his music, particularly for his music for theatre and film. Kushan also builds and restores a variety of world instruments. His desire to increase the range and technical opportunities for the santur resulted in a unique and more powerful instrument, capable of performing both traditional the most avant-garde repertoire. As a performer, Kushan has performed and collaborated with several internationally-recognized musicians such as Miles Davis, and Paco de Lucia.
Alan Lowe

Alan Lowe (born July 26, 1961 in Victoria, BC, Canada) is a Canadian politician. He is a former mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, serving in office 1999-2008.
In 1982 Lowe earned a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba, and in 1985 he earned a Master's Degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon.
He is one of only a handful of mayors of Victoria who were actually born and raised in the city, and was the city's first mayor of Asian heritage to be elected. At 38 years old he was also one of the youngest candidates ever to win Victoria's mayoral election.
In 1999 Alan Lowe managed to win a hard fought three way race versus Bob Friedland of the Victoria Civic Electors on the left and veteran right wing councilor Geoff Young. His campaign slogan was "Aim High, Vote Lowe", which highlighted his sense of humor and charm.
1999 Election Results
*Alan LOWE 7,080 43.59%
*Bob FRIEDLAND 5,626 34.64%
*Geoff YOUNG 3,076 18.94%
The accepted opinion in the next election was that Lowe was unassailable and therefore no serious candidates chose to challenge him. He handily won the 2002 election (61.65% of the popular vote) against a number of opponents, including his closest contender, Ben Isitt, then a 24-year-old master's student at the University of Victoria.
Alan Lowe won re-election in the 2005 elections. He again faced Ben Isitt and defeated him by 1,400 votes. Lowe's completion of the new police headquarters building and the Save On Foods Memorial Centre were very positive for his public relations. The arena project was not finished under the tenure of his predecessor mayor.
In the December 5, 2007 edition of the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper, Lowe stated that he would like to spend more time with his family, friends, other interests and would not seek re-election. He served on Victoria City Council for 15 years as a Councilor and Mayor.
Alan Sakhavarz

Drawing, painting and sculpting are the vehicles with which Alan Sakhavarz weaves his imagination into an art form. The common thread throughout his diverse creations is his quest for understanding the human condition and the world we live in. 
At times these thoughts are reflected in satirical narratives in cartoons and some times they manifest in lyrical manipulations of the human form. The latter convey subtle nuances of fleeting moments in life. 
Sakhavarz is an Iranian born, self –taught artist who has worked in the tense environment of editorial rooms in Tehran and has experienced at first hand the devastating effects of political turmoil, revolution and social upheavals as an editorial cartoonist. For the past three decades that he has lived in Canada, he has also established himself as an accomplished painter and sculptor. This background has always been a constant influence in shaping the foundation of his work, hence, providing him with a unique ability to give shape to sometimes unspeakable ideas. 
Currently based in Toronto, Alan Sakhavarz’s has works housed in both private and corporate collections across North America and has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries across Canada and the United States. A number of such exhibitions include: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and The Leigh Yawkey Art Museum in Wisconsin. He is a signature member of the Society of animal artists and the Oil painters of America.
Alden E. Habacon

Alden E. Habacon is the Manager of Diversity Initiatives for the English Television Network (CBC Television) of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada, where he designs and manages the implementation of initiatives that support CBC's commitment to accurately reflect Canada's diversity in programming and hiring. He is also the founder of Schema Magazine, an online magazine whose mandate is to reflect the most culturally mobile and complexly diverse generation of Canadians ever observed.
He has shared his perspectives on "Multiculturalism 2.0" and the Cultural Navigator phenomena to numerous agencies, such as Canadian Heritage and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). Alden has been a featured speaker at diversity conferences and symposiums in Canada and abroad, including the prestigious Couchiching Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) Summer Conference, Metropolis (Canadian Heritage), and the Seminar on Cultural Diversity and Broadcasting co-hosted by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Broadcaster Development (AIBD) and the Canadian High Commission in Malaysia, which included a workshop in Manila, Philippines at ABS-CBN.
His recent speaking engagements include the 2008 Discrimination Prevention Forum, the 2008 ASEAN-Canada Dialogue on Interfaith Initiatives in Surabaya, Indonesia, co-hosted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and a special presentation organised by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and the International Broadcasters Trust (IBT) in the Parliament Building in London, England.
He has also delivered keynotes for the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia and lectured on diversity in broadcasting at various Canadian universities including University of British Columbia, University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University, and most recently spoken at the University of Birmingham and the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). He has recently been published in Canadian Diversity Magazine.
Alden is informed by his Filipino ancestry but not defined by it. As a definitive Cultural Navigator, he was born in Manila and spent much of his childhood living across Western Canada. Alden graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Visual Arts. He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife.
Alex chu

Having immigrated to Canada with his family, Alex rose to fame upon returning to South Korea years later as part of the group Clazziquai. The group's popularity skyrocketed after featuring on the soundtrack of hit drama series My Lovely Samsoon.
In 2008, the group announced a temporary hiatus, and its members debuted as solo artists, including Alex. In 2009, Clazziquai returned with the release of Mucho Punk.
Alex Chu became part of MBC reality show We Got Married (우리 결혼했어요) and was matched with Korean trot singer Jang Yoon Jeong in the Lunar Special episode, and actress/model Shin Ae for the rest of the series. The show also stars Crown J, Andy of Shinhwa, Seo In Young of Jewelry, Solbi of Typhoon, Saori and Jung Hyung Don. Alex and Shin Ae left the show after Episode 8 for Alex to record his first solo album Vintage Romance. They were replaced by Kim Hyun Joong of SS501 and Hwangbo of Chakra. However, due to popular demand, the couple reunited in Episode 13. Alex and Shin Ae made their exit from the show on November 16, 2008.
Alex debuted in his first drama series "Pasta" as one of the main cast. The drama aired from January 4, 2010 to March 9, 2010 on MBC.
In June 2, 2011, Alex released his second solo album titled "Just Like Me".
On June 1, 2012, Alex opened a new Italian restaurant, D'asti Plate. He partnered with three of his close friends to open the restaurant, which is located in the Shinsadong area of Seoul.