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    Kelsey Jones

    (Herbert) Kelsey Jones. Composer, harpsichordist, organist, pianist, teacher, b South Norwalk, Conn, 17 Jun 1922, naturalized Canadian 1956, d Montreal 10 Oct 2004; B MUS (Mount Allison) 1945, B MUS (Toronto) 1947, D MUS (Toronto) 1951.

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    Ken Babstock

    Ken Babstock, poet, editor and teacher (born 19 January 1970 in Burin, NL). 

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  • Editorial

    Ken Dryden: A Natural Abundance of Character

    The following article is an editorial. Editorials are not usually updated. Ken Dryden will be remembered by history for his play, for his accomplishments on the ice. But what made him historic, what ensures that he will be remembered also for his writing, his leadership, his politics and his advocacy, was his character.  

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    Ken Finkleman

    Ken Finkleman, screenwriter, director, actor, producer (born 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba). Ken Finkleman is a maverick auteur renowned for the caustic humour, bitter irony and deadpan satire embodied by his television alter ego George Findlay, a linking character he has portrayed in seven television series. The winner of six Gemini Awards and an Emmy Award, Finkleman is best known for The Newsroom, the iconoclastic comedy series he created, wrote, produced and starred in. Popular and critically acclaimed during three runs (1996–97, 2003–04, 2004–05) and a TV movie (Escape from the Newsroom, 2002) on CBC Television and PBS, the show is regarded as one of the best media satires ever produced.. 

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    Ken Finkleman (Profile)

    Leave it to Ken Finkleman - and perhaps only Ken Finkleman - to come up with a statement so outrageous, so potentially offensive and, at the same time, so perceptive.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 30, 1998

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    Ken Gass

    Ken Gass, director, playwright, producer (born at Abbotsford, BC 10 Sept 1945). Ken Gass is one of the key figures in the development of Canadian theatre.

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    Ken Livingstone

    Ken Livingstone, theatre director, designer, teacher (born 21 January 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland; died 5 May 2019 in Montreal, QC). Ken Livingstone was the first graduate of Canada’s first MA course in theatre (University of British Columbia, 1967). He taught and directed at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), led his own company in a decade of groundbreaking stage productions in London, Ontario, then freelanced briefly in Toronto and elsewhere before launching the first theatre program at Memorial University of Newfoundland and contributing largely to the theatrical life of Newfoundland over the next quarter-century.

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    Ken Mitchell

    Ken Mitchell, playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet, actor, teacher, scriptwriter (b at Moose Jaw, Sask 13 Dec 1940). Mitchell grew up on a farm near Moose Jaw, and attended the University of Saskatchewan, Regina; while a student, he began to write stories and radio plays for the CBC.

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    Ken Money

    Kenneth Eric Money, astronaut, air force pilot, physiologist, inventor, lecturer, author, Olympic athlete (born 4 January 1935 in Toronto, ON; died 6 March 2023 in Toronto, ON). Dr. Ken Money was one of the original six Canadians selected to join the Canadian astronaut corps in 1983 (see Canadian Space Agency). He was a pioneer in the study of the effects of space travel on the human body. He published many scientific articles and made contributions to the World Book Encyclopedia. In addition to his extensive research contributions, Money distinguished himself as an athlete and competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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    Ken Moore

    Kenneth Strath Moore, hockey player, coach (born 17 February 1910 in Balcarres, SK; died 8 December 1981 in Winnipeg, MB). Ken Moore played on and coached teams that won national championships. As a member of the hockey team representing Canada at the 1932 Winter Olympics, Moore is the first Indigenous athlete from Canada to compete at a Winter Olympics and to win an Olympic gold medal. (See also Indigenous Olympians.)

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    Ken Scott

    Ken Scott, writer, director, actor (born 1970). Ken Scott worked as a comedian and actor before writing several of the most accessible and appealing French Canadian films of the early 21st century. His intricately written commercial comedies La grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis, 2003) and Starbuck (2011), which he directed, topped the Canadian box office in their respective years and have been remade in different languages around the world — a testament to their universal appeal.

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    Ken Sim

    Ken Sim, entrepreneur, politician, mayor of Vancouver 2022– (born 18 October 1970 in Vancouver, BC). Ken Sim worked as an accountant and investment banker before co-founding two successful businesses: Nurse Next Door and Rosemary Rocksalt bagels. Sim made an unsuccessful bid to become mayor of Vancouver in 2018, losing to Kennedy Stewart by 957 votes. In 2022, he and his A Better City (ABC) Party won a majority government with a platform that stressed law and order and public safety. Sim is the first Chinese Canadian to be elected mayor of Vancouver.

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    Ken Tobias

    Ken (Kenneth Wayne Paul) Tobias. Songwriter, popular singer, b Saint John, NB, 25 July 1945. Raised in Saint John, Ken Tobias briefly worked as a draftsman and from 1961 played guitar in the local folk band The Ramblers, and drums in the rock band Badd Cedes.

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    Ken Watson

    Ken Watson, curler (born at Minnedosa, Man 12 Aug 1904; died at Winnipeg 26 July 1986). When he skipped his Strathcona Cup (Manitoba) Rink to victory in the 1949 Macdonald Brier, Watson became the first to win the coveted Tankard 3 times (with a career Brier record of 25 and 2).

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    Ken Wheeler

    Ken or Kenny (Kenneth Vincent John) Wheeler. Trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger (born 14 January 1930 in Toronto, ON; died 18 September 2014 in London, England).

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