Remember the Big Picture

Beverley McLachlin is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She is the first woman in Canadian history to be appointed to this position.

The Power of Perspective

David Chilton is the author of The Wealthy Barber, the most successful book in Canadian publishing history.

Clara Hughes is the only athlete in history to win multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Olympic games.

William Deverell is the author of thirteen crime novels, is a successful trial lawyer and is the creator of the CBC Television series Street Legal.

Buck 65 is a hip hop artist with his own unique rhyme styling lyrical presentation. He hails from Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia.

James Loney was held hostage for one hundred and eighteen days in Iraq from November 2005 to March 2006.

Shauna Singh Baldwin's first novel, What the Body Remembers, received the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean). Shauna's second novel The Tiger Claw, was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a leader in the Inuit community, an environmental activist and a nominee for the Nobel Prize in 2007.

20 years ago Rick Hansen began his Man in Motion world tour. He wheeled around the world to raise money and awareness for people with spinal cord injuries. In these 20 years the Rick Hansen Foundation has raised almost $180 million to help make our communities accessible and to fund research.

Kim Phuc is best known as “the girl in the picture”, the provocative photo taken in 1972 at the height of the Vietnam war. She was nine years old then, napalm bombs were accidentally dropped on her village and she was photographed running naked, screaming and burned down a dirt road.