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    k.d. lang

    k.d. (Kathryn Dawn) lang. Singer, songwriter, born Edmonton 2 Nov 1961; hon LLD (Alberta) 2008.

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    k.d. lang (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 6, 1995. Partner content is not updated.

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    Keanu Reeves

    Keanu Charles Reeves, actor, producer, director, musician (born 2 September 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon). Keanu Reeves is one of the most recognizable film actors in the world. After early work in Toronto with the CBC and the NFB, he moved to Los Angeles and made a meteoric rise to stardom in such films as Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), Point Break (1991) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). He is perhaps best known for action-adventure movies such as Speed (1994), the John Wick franchise and the four Matrix movies. He has been honoured with a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame.

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    Minna Keene

    Minna Keene, née Bergman, photographer (b at Arolsen, Germany 5 Apr 1861; d at Oakville, Ont Nov 1943). A self-taught photographer, she was a member of the London Salon, a society devoted to the promotion of pictorial photography.

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    Keith Bissell

    Keith (Warren) Bissell. Composer, educator, conductor, b Meaford, near Owen Sound, Ont, 12 Feb 1912, d Newmarket, near Toronto, 9 May 1992; B MUS (Toronto) 1942. While teaching 1934-48 in Toronto schools he studied composition at the University of Toronto with Leo Smith.

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    Keith MacMillan

    Keith (Campbell) MacMillan. Administrator, producer, writer, editor, b Toronto 23 Sep 1920, d there 20 May 1991; BA (Toronto) 1949, MA (Toronto) 1951.

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    Keith Spicer

    Keith Spicer, journalist, broadcaster, public servant (born 6 March 1934 in Toronto, ON; died 24 August 2023 in Ottawa, ON). Keith Spicer was Canada’s first commissioner of official languages (1970–77). He also worked as a journalist for the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun and was editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen (1985–89). He then served as chair of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) from 1989 to 1996, except for 1990–91, when he chaired the Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.

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    Kelly-Marie Murphy

    Kelly-Marie Murphy. Composer, b Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy 4 Sep 1964; B Mus (Calgary) 1987, M Mus (Calgary) 1989, PhD (Leeds) 1994. Kelly-Marie Murphy was born in Italy to Canadian parents but grew up on military bases in Canada.

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    Kelly Russell

    Kelly Russell. Folk instrumentalist and collector, record producer, b St John's, Nfld, 30 Jun 1956. He studied piano with his mother, Dora Russell, and at 18 taught himself to play the fiddle, subsequently taking up other folk instruments (bouzouki, concertina, tin whistle, dulcimer, Celtic harp.

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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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    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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  • Macleans

    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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