Michèle Rivet is the President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.  Throughout her illustrious career, both here and abroad, Michèle Rivet has sought to extend human rights and ensure that the rule of law is enshrined in a growing number of countries. As President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, Madame Rivet has continued her promotion of human rights, publishing writings on the rights of immigrant workers, on the questions of assisted suicide and euthanasia, and other issues. ...
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James Edward Newall, O.C., is the Chairman of the Board of Canadian Pacific Railway and NOVA Chemicals Corporation. Ted Newall has spent more than 30 years in the boardrooms of Canadian business, occupying the most senior management positions in some of this country’s most important companies. He has been CEO of Dupont Canada and NOVA Corporation and has also served on the boards of many of Canada’s leading firms.
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Evelyn Greenberg is an accomplished musician, teacher, and community builder, who has dedicated her career to the principles of teamwork, harmony, and service. While performing in Canada and on the international stage as a premier accompanist with many noted artists, Evelyn Greenberg also spent 23 years with the Music Department at the University of Ottawa. She was the Founding President of the National Arts Centre Orchestra Association and has been active with the Canada-Israel Cultural Founda...
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Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known historians, journalists, and political commentators. She has written a series of biographies and histories that have raised the profile of some of the outstanding people who have helped shape Canada, including Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill; and Canada, A Portrait in Letters 1800-2000. Charlotte Gray has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Pierre Berton Award, our nation’s top honour in his...
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William Commanda is an Algonquin Elder, and an internationally respected spokesperson on intercultural harmony and respect for the environment. Elder Commanda spent 19 years as the Chief of the Kitigan Zibi Reserve, near Maniwaki, Quebec. He has worked as a guide, a trapper and a woodsman, and is internationally famous as a birchbark canoe maker. He is the driving force behind “A Circle of All Nations”, which seeks to foster racial and cultural harmony, as well as respect for nature. ...
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Madeline Boscoe is the Executive Coordinator with the -Canadian Women’s Health Network. Over the years, Madeline Boscoe has played a central role in women’s health—as a health care provider, a project manager, an intervenor before the Supreme Court, an author, an editor, and a participant at various national and international conferences. She has done more than almost anyone else to further the cause of women’s health.     ...
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Hubert Reeves, C.C., a renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist, is currently the Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in France. Dr. Reeves has received many honours for his research, which has focussed on such areas as thermonuclear reactions in the cores of stars, the origin and development of free energy in the universe, and the density of matter. He has also written several mainstream books on cosmology, making this subject more accessible to a wider aud...
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His Excellency John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist whose writing seeks out a new humanism through what he calls responsible individualism. His novels and philosophical works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Mr. Saul is the Founder and Honorary Chair of Le Français pour l’Avenir / French for the Future, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium. His Excellency is a dedicated proponent of a diverse, bilingual Canada, and work...
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An internationally recognized researcher and pioneer in neuropsychology, Brenda Milner, emeritus professor, has added substantially to the scientific understanding of the structure and function of the brain in learning memory and speech. She maintains an enviable reputation as a distinguished lecturer in brain research and her work has been widely recognized by her scientific peers through numerous awards.
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Nurjehan Mawani is the Senior Advisor on Diversity at the Canada School of Public Service. As the Chairperson of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board, Nurjehan Mawani issued the groundbreaking “Guidelines on Women Refugee Claimants Fearing Gender-Related Persecution”. These guidelines, the first of their kind in the world, led other nations to change their policies to recognize and take into account the unique challenges faced by refugee women. ...
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