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    Chandra Crawford

    Crawford's international success began in 2005 when she won four world cups and two world championships in the sprint events. Still, she was not a favourite to win at Torino 2006. Her win in the 1.

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    Chansonniers

    A true chansonnier of the Parisian type, he combined song, comedy and political satire. Chansonniers Chansonniers, singer-songwriters of Québec active after WWII, particularly during the 1960s. Their songs served a common social ideal and shared a style characterized by simplicity and intimacy favouring poetic expression. The predecessors of this movement include La BOLDUC, often cited as Québec's first chansonnière, but Félix LECLERC and Raymond LÉVESQUE were in fact its true originators. Leclerc prepared the way...

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    Chansonniers

    Félix Leclerc and Raymond Lévesque were the originators of this new species and of the movement it generated, though some historians point to La Bolduc and even Rolland (Le Soldat) Lebrun as its predecessors.

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    Chantal Hébert

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    Chantal Juillet

    Juillet, Chantal. Violinist, b Montreal 19 December 1960. She began playing the violin at six, first studying with Claude Létourneau in Quebec City, and then with Luis Grinhauz in Montreal.

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    Chantal Kreviazuk

    Chantal Kreviazuk. Singer, pianist, songwriter, actor, born in Winnipeg on 18 May, 1974. 

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    Chantal Masson

    Chantal Masson. Violist, choir conductor, teacher, b St-Denis, near Paris, 24 Oct 1937, naturalized Canadian 1977; premier prix viola (Paris Cons) 1958. She studied at the Toulouse Cons and the Paris Cons.

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    Chantal Petitclerc

    ​Chantal Petitclerc, CC, CQ, MSM, wheelchair racer, senator (born 15 December 1969 in Saint-Marc-des-Carrières, QC).

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    Chanteurs St-Coeur-de-Marie

    Chanteurs St-Coeur-de-Marie. Choir founded in Quebec City in the 1950s. Directed by Claude Gosselin beginning in the early 1960s, the choir adopted its present name in 1973.

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    Charan Gill

    Charan Pal Gill (né Singh), OBC, social worker, social activist (born 17 June 1936 in Hong Kong; died 2 February 2021 in Langley, BC). Charan Gill was a labour organizer, anti-racism pioneer and South Asian community leader in British Columbia. (See also South Asian Canadians.)

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    Si’k-okskitsis

    Si'k-okskitsis (known by various other names including Black Wood Ashes, Charcoal, The Palate, Paka’panikapi, Lazy Young Man and Opee-o’wun), Kainai warrior, spiritual leader (born circa 1856 in present-day southern AB; died 16 Mar 1897 in Fort Macleod, AB). Si'k-okskitsis was involved in a domestic dispute that ended in murder. He fled but was eventually caught by police, tried and hanged. The story of Si’k-okskitsis’s life speaks to larger themes of relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers, the settlement of the West, and changes to traditional ways of life on the plains.

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    Charest Controls Tory Convention

    Ryan Craig loves to Rollerblade. He listens to the Smashing Pumpkins, surfs the Net and likes Seinfeld almost as much as beach Frisbee. Ask him about politics, though, and Craig, a 21-year-old personnel officer for the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. in Winnipeg, becomes deadly earnest.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on September 2, 1996

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    Charest Leaves Ottawa for Quebec

    From the front porch of his home above the lakeside retreat of North Hatley, Que., Jean Charest could watch the spring breakup on Lake Massawippi last week while considering the thaw he, himself, had just ushered in to Canada's own icebound political landscape.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 6, 1998

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    Charest's Liberals Win Majority in Quebec

    IT COST HIM five years of pressing flesh in the boonies, away from home and the cameras, but Jean CHAREST was finally able to convince a majority of Quebec voters that he belongs - and is ready to govern the province.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 28, 2003

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    Charismatic Renewal

    Charismatic Renewal, a transdenominational Christian movement, theologically diverse and ecumenical, begun in the 1950s, currently characterizes significant segments of the church and is frequently referred to as neo-Pentecostal.

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