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    Clifford Poole

    Clifford Poole. Pianist, teacher, composer, b Reddish, near Manchester, 25 May 1916, d Toronto 16 Jul 2003. He was taken to Canada as a child and settled in Toronto, where he studied piano with Mona Bates.

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    Clifford von Kuster

    Clifford (Austin) von Kuster. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Turtleford, northwest of Saskatoon, 2 Jun 1921, d London, Ont, 5 Nov 2000; B MUS (Toronto) 1949, honorary D MUS (University of Western Ontario) 2000.

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    Clifford William Robinson

    Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, premier of NB 1907-08 (b at Moncton, NB 1 Sept 1866; d at Montréal 27 July 1944). In 1897 Robinson was elected mayor of Moncton and a member of the provincial Assembly.

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    C.L.M. Harris

    C.L.M. (Charles Lewis Matthew) Harris. Conductor, organist, educator, composer, b Staningly, Yorkshire, England, 1863, d Port Huron, Mich, January 1925; B MUS (Trinity College, Toronto) 1891, D MUS (Trinity College, Toronto) 1898.

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    Clovis (Llano)

    These big-game hunters sought mammoths, mastodons, camels and horses that were native to North America at the time. Following the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciers, these animals became extinct, hastening the end of this stage of North American Prehistory.

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    Cluny Macpherson

    Cluny Macpherson, doctor, inventor, businessman, justice of the peace (b at St John's Mar 1879; d there 16 Nov 1966).

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    Clyde Gilmour

    Clyde Gilmour, broadcaster, critic (b at Calgary 8 Jun 1912; d at Toronto 7 Nov 1997). An influential film and record columnist who wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines, Gilmour was best known as a radio personality.

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    Clyde Gilmour

    Clyde Gilmour. Critic, broadcaster, b Calgary 8 Jun 1912, d Toronto 7 Nov 1997; honorary LL D (McMaster) 1976.

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    Clyde Kirby Wells

    In 1977 he was Newfoundland representative on a Canadian Bar Association committee on the Constitution and in 1981 he argued the government's case in the Newfoundland Supreme Court against the federal government's claim that it could unilaterally patriate the constitution.

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    Coast Salish

    Coast Salish peoples have historically occupied territories along the Northwest Pacific Coast in Canada and the United States. Though each nation is different, Coast Salish peoples generally have strong kinship ties and engage in political, treaty and environmental partnerships.

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    Cobie Smulders

    Jacoba “Cobie” Francisca Maria Smulders-Killam, actor, model (born 3 April 1982 in Vancouver, BC). Cobie Smulders is best known for her roles as Robin Scherbatsky in the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–14) and agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut for her performance in a 2017 production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter.

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    Tom Cochrane

    Tom Cochrane, singer, songwriter (b at Lynn Lake, Man 14 May 1953). Following early struggles as a solo artist (the album Hang on to Your Resistance, 1974) and soundtrack composer (My Pleasure Is My Business, 1976), Tom Cochrane joined the Southern Ontario band Red Rider in 1977.

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    CODCO

    After the Ontario performance, CODCO returned to Newfoundland and, following a run in St John's, toured the province.

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    Cœur de pirate

    Béatrice Martin (a.k.a. Cœur de pirate), singer, songwriter, pianist, writer (born 22 September 1989, in Montreal, QC). A star in both Quebec and France, chanson artist Cœur de pirate (which translates as pirate heart) has sold more than 1 million albums and won eight Félix Awards: Debut Artist of the Year (2009), Most Celebrated Quebec Artist Outside of Quebec (2010, 2012), Female Singer of the Year (2012, 2019), Pop Album of the Year (2012, 2019) and Anglophone Album of the Year (2016). She was also named Best Francophone Artist/Group or Duo of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Independent Music Awards and won the 2022 Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year.

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  • Macleans

    Cogger Convicted of Influence Peddling

    Michel Cogger fell to earth last week. It has been a long, agonizing descent. The portly, peppery Tory senator and lawyer once helped run federal election campaigns, had the ear of prime minister Brian Mulroney, and the trust of legal clients like the shadowy Austrian businessman Walter Wolf.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 15, 1998

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