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    Michael Sabia (Profile)

    In her day, the late Laura Sabia was never shy about poking establishment noses. Tart and outspoken, the founding president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1972 was a champion upender of the status quo.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 3, 2002

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    Michael Sarrazin

    Michael Sarrazin, born Jacques Michel André Sarrazin, actor (born at Quebec City 22 May 1940, died at Montréal 17 Apr 2011). Michael Sarrazin prepared for the stage at New York City's famed Actors Studio.

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    Michael Schade

    Michael Schade, singer (b at Geneva, Switzerland 23 Jan 1965). After spending his early years in Switzerland, he emigrated to Canada with his family in 1977 and enrolled in St.

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    Michael Schade

    Michael Schade. Tenor, b Geneva, Switzerland 23 Jan 1965; B MUS (Western Ontario) 1988. Michael Schade was born into a musical family; his parents sang in the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and he was given voice lessons from an early age. Schade attended the St. Michael's Choir School.

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    Michael Screier

    Michael Screier, photographer, teacher (b in Austria 19 Feb 1949). Screier arrived in Canada in 1953 and became a student of David HEATH. He graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson Polytechnic University) and received a MFA from Concordia University.

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    Michael Smith

    Michael Smith, decathlete (b at Kenora, Ont 1967). Smith established himself as a future champion by winning the silver medal at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in 1986. He was bothered by tendinitis in 1988 and placed a disappointing 14th at the OLYMPIC GAMES in Seoul.

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    Michael Smith (Biochemist)

    Michael Smith, CC, OBC, FRSC, biochemist, professor (born 26 April 1932 in Blackpool, England; died 4 October 2000 in Vancouver, BC). In 1993, Michael Smith and Kary B. Mullis were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Smith was awarded the prize for developing site-directed mutagenesis, a technique used in genetic engineering. (See also Nobel Prizes and Canada; Biochemistry.)

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    Michael Snow

    Michael James Aleck Snow, CC, RCA, artist, filmmaker, musician (born 10 December 1929 in Toronto, ON; died 5 January 2023). Michael Snow was one of Canada’s most acclaimed visual artists and avant garde filmmakers. His work was concerned with redefining the relationships between various media, the acts and interpretations of perception, and the complex interplay of sound, language and meaning. A Companion of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, he was the first recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. He also won a Molson Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, among many other honours.

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    Michael Stadtländer

    ​Michael Stadtländer, CM, chef, restaurateur, environmental activist, artist (born 1947 in Lubeck, Germany). A Member of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Leadership and named the 2011 Restaurateur of the Year by the Canadian Association of Food Service Professionals, Michael Stadtländer is a pioneer and leader of Canada’s influential farm-to-table culinary movement.

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    Michael Strutt

    Michael Strutt. Guitarist, lutenist, teacher, b Prestbury, Cheshire, England, 14 Apr 1945. Raised in the Manchester area, Strutt began piano lessons in 1956, studied guitar 1963-5 with Terrence Usher, and took up the lute.

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    Michael Winter

    Michael Winter, short-story writer, novelist (b at Jarrow, England 1965). Michael Winter was born in England, but grew up in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

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    Michaëlle Jean

    Michaëlle Jean, social activist, journalist, documentary filmmaker, governor general of Canada 2005–2010, secretary general of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie 2014–2019 (born 6 September 1957 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti).

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    Michel Arcand

    Michel Arcand, picture editor, sound design (born at Val d'Or, Que 1949). Michel Arcand is one of Canada's most accomplished picture editors. He entered the business as an assistant editor in the mid 1970s.

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    Michel Beaulieu

    Michel Beaulieu, writer, literary critic and translator (b at Montréal 31 Oct 1941; d there 10 July 1985). He studied at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf then at the arts faculty of Université de Montréal.

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    Michel Bégon de La Picardière

    Michel Bégon de La Picardière, INTENDANT of New France 1712-26 (b at Blois, France 21 Mar 1667; d at La Picardière, France 18 Jan 1747). When he arrived, the economy of New France was suffering from

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