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    Serge Tousignant

    Serge Tousignant, camera artist (b at Montréal 28 May 1942). His early work, after study at the École des beaux-arts, Montréal (1950-62), was as a painter and sculptor. His concern was the relationship

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    Sergio Barroso

    Sergio Barroso. Composer, teacher, synthesist, b Havana, Cuba, 4 Mar 1946; Honours Diploma (Havana Conservatory) 1966, post-graduate certificate (Prague Superior Academy of Music) 1968.

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    Sergio Kokis

    Sergio Kokis, novelist and painter (b at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6 May 1944). Kokis' tumultuous childhood led him at a very young age to a correctional institution, for vagrancy. However, he succeeded in attending l'École des beaux-arts (de Rio) while pursuing studies in philosophy.

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    Sergio Trujillo

    Sergio Trujillo, dancer, choreographer (born at Cali, Columbia 1963). Sergio Trujillo came to Canada with his family when he was 12 years old and grew up in North York, a suburb of Metro Toronto that is now amalgamated into the City of Toronto.

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    Seth

    ​Seth (born Gregory Gallant), cartoonist, visual artist (born 16 September 1962 in Clinton, ON). 

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    Seth Rogen

    Seth Aaron Rogen, actor, comedian, writer, producer, director (born 15 April 1982 in Vancouver, BC). Seth Rogen is one of Hollywood’s leading comedic stars. He is famous for playing characters that are at once sweetly naïve, slyly intelligent and utterly profane. Initially known for his collaborations with writer-producer Judd Apatow on such films as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007) and Superbad (2007), he eventually began producing and co-directing his own comedies, such as This Is the End (2013) and The Interview (2014). Known as “the stoner king of comedy,” Rogen was named Comedy Star of the Year in 2008 by the US National Association of Theater Owners. He has twice been named Canadian Comedy Person of the Year at the Canadian Comedy Awards.

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    Séverin Moisse

    Séverin Joseph Moisse, pianist, composer, teacher (born 8 June 1895 in Chastre or Walhain-Saint-Paul, Belgium; died 3 September 1961 in Montréal, QC).

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    Shad

    Shadrach Kabango (a.k.a. Shad, Shad K.), rapper, singer, songwriter, radio host (born 18 July 1982 in Kenya). Witty, passionate and earnest, Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper known for his sharp, socially conscious lyrics. His playful musical style blends rap and hip-hop with rock, R&B and other genres. In 2008 and 2010, the National Post named him the best rapper in Canada, and in 2013 CBC Music ranked him No. 2 in their list of the 25 Greatest Canadian Rappers Ever. Paste magazine hailed him in 2013 as “Canada’s most talented, genuine musical artist and one of the industry’s finest poets.” Shad has been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize four times (2008, 2010, 2014, 2019) and hosted CBC Radio One’s flagship talk show q from April 2015 to August 2016.

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    Shadrach Byfield

    Shadrach Byfield, soldier, author (b at Woolley, Wiltshire, England 16 Sep 1789; d c. 1850). 

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    Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz

    Shae-Lynn Bourne (b at Chatham, Ont, 24 Jan 1978) and Victor Kraatz (b at Berlin, Germany 7 April 1971), skaters. Ice dancing partners beginning in 1991 and members of the Canadian figure skating team starting in 1992, they were unrivalled on the Canadian scene for many years.

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    Shane L. Koyczan

    Shane Koyczan, writer, poet, spoken word artist (b at Yellowknife, NWT 22 May 1976). Koyczan grew up in Penticton, British Columbia. 

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    Shania Twain

    Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards), aka Eilleen Twain, OC, singer, songwriter, guitarist, (born 28 August 1965 in Windsor, ON). Nicknamed the “Queen of Country Pop,” Shania Twain rose from rags to riches to become the biggest-selling female country artist of all time. Buoyed by sassy lyrics, a sexy image and slick production values, her smash hit recordings from 1995 to 2004 defied country music conventions, breaking numerous sales records and establishing her as an international superstar. She is the only female artist to have three consecutive albums sell more than 10 million copies in the United States. Her third album, Come On Over (1997), is the best-selling country album of all time, the biggest-selling album of the 1990s and the sixth biggest-selling in US history. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, she was the first non-American to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music Awards. She has won nearly 200 major international awards, including multiple Juno, Grammy, SOCAN and Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards.

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    Shania Twain (Interview)

    She's achieved first-name-only superstardom, selling more than 50 million records on the strength of her twangy pop tunes and unabashedly sexy image. On Nov. 19, Shania Twain releases Up!, her first album of new material since 1997's Come On Over.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 11, 2002

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  • Macleans

    Shania Twain: Maclean's 1995 Honor Roll

    Shania Twain feels at home in the bush. She grew up there, learning to hunt and trap and work a chain saw with her Ojibwa father.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 18, 1995

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    Shania Twain (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 23, 1998. Partner content is not updated. They are lining up to meet her in the flesh. Hundreds of broadcasters, delegates to a country radio conference, have gathered for a party at the new Planet Hollywood in Nashville.

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