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Alistair MacLeod, OC ( born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan ) is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.
* Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 IMPAC Award for No Great Mischief and Rawi Hage won it in 2008 for De Niro's Game.
in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod.
Page, Dorothy Livesay, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, among others, have shared the personal challenges they faced in forging their own paths as writers.
Alistair (" Ally ") Reid MacLeod ( 26 February 1931 – 1 February 2004 ) was a Scottish professional football player.
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G7 finance ministers at the 2008 meeting ( front row, L-R ): Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, U. S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Italy's Finance Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Japan's Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling andChairman of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Successful songwriters he has signed since include Seal, Ian Brown, Gabrielle, Chris Braide, Shane MacGowan, Marsha Ambrosius, Alistair Griffin, and Paul Simm ( writer of the hit " Overload " for Sugababes ).
Alistair McGowan ( born 24 November 1964 ) is an English impressionist, stand-up comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression ( formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression ), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes-winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003.
He was succeeded by writer and historian Alistair Moffat, who left in 1981 to become Head of Arts at Scottish Television.
He was head writer for Spitting Image, and has written for many shows including, Noel's House Party, Dead Ringers and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression.
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It is not clear if Picatinny took the concept from this Canadian weapon and asked Norman MacLeod to develop it ; or if he came up with the idea independently and presented it to them.
For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Meanwhile, Edgar MacLeod, former president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, states that " while the cost of the registry had become an embarrassment, the program works and provides a valuable service.
In 1934, MacLeod attended the founding conference of the Canadian League Against War and Fascism in Toronto, and was elected its chairman.
MacLeod co-founded and became the first editor of the Canadian Tribune, the weekly newspaper launched in June 1940 as the unofficial organ of the banned Communist Party as it struggled to remain active as an underground organization.
Two Canadian researchers, Frederick Banting and Charles Best, working in the physiology laboratory of Professor James MacLeod from the University of Toronto, published the same results in 1922.
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