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Lee Maracle was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017. The appointment recognizes an Indigenous writer and teacher recognized for her literary contributions.
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Alistair MacLeod was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. The appointment recognizes a writer whose fiction draws on the landscape and communities of Nova Scotia.
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Ann-Marie MacDonald was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2018. The appointment recognizes a writer recognized for her contributions to Canada’s literary and artistic life.
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Thomas King was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2020. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work addresses Indigenous experiences and injustices in North America.
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Lawrence Hill was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. The appointment recognizes an author and activist whose work addresses Canada’s Black communities and the lives of women and girls in Africa.
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Tomson Highway was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2021. The appointment recognizes a writer, playwright, musician and composer whose work advances Indigenous literature and culture.
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Jacques Godbout was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2016. The appointment recognizes a writer recognized for contributions to literature and critical thought.
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Douglas Coupland was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013. The appointment recognizes a novelist, artist and cultural commentator whose work examines contemporary life.
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Leonard Cohen was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada in 2002. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and singer-songwriter with an international audience.
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Nicole Brossard was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010. The appointment recognizes a poet, novelist and essayist associated with feminist writing in Canada.
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Dionne Brand was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2017. The appointment recognizes a writer whose work explores questions of social justice.
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Joseph Boyden was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. The appointment recognizes an author recognized for his writing and social engagement, including support for First Nations.
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Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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James Peebles, born in Winnipeg in 1935 and a graduate of the University of Manitoba, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
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Donna Strickland, born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1959 and working at the University of Waterloo, shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses.
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Arthur McDonald, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1943 and working at Queen’s University, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass.
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Ralph Steinman, born in Montréal in 1943 and educated at McGill University, was awarded a share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering, in 1973, the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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Willard Boyle, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1924, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smith for inventing the CCD image sensor.
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Lait cru, by Steve Poutré, won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language fiction.
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Empty Spaces, by Jordan Abel, won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction.
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Mille secrets mille dangers, by Alain Farah, won the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language fiction.
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Faire les sucres, by Fanny Britt, won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language fiction.
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De synthèse, by Karoline Georges, won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language fiction.
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We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, by Joel Thomas Hynes, won the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction.
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