Directory of honorary doctorates

Evelyn Greenberg is an accomplished musician, teacher, and community builder, who has dedicated her career to the principles of teamwork, harmony, and service. While performing in Canada and on the international stage as a premier accompanist with many noted artists, Evelyn Greenberg also spent 23 years with the Music Department at the University of Ottawa. She was the Founding President of the National Arts Centre Orchestra Association and has been active with the Canada-Israel Cultural Founda...
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James Edward Newall, O.C., is the Chairman of the Board of Canadian Pacific Railway and NOVA Chemicals Corporation. Ted Newall has spent more than 30 years in the boardrooms of Canadian business, occupying the most senior management positions in some of this country’s most important companies. He has been CEO of Dupont Canada and NOVA Corporation and has also served on the boards of many of Canada’s leading firms.
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Michèle Rivet is the President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.  Throughout her illustrious career, both here and abroad, Michèle Rivet has sought to extend human rights and ensure that the rule of law is enshrined in a growing number of countries. As President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, Madame Rivet has continued her promotion of human rights, publishing writings on the rights of immigrant workers, on the questions of assisted suicide and euthanasia, and other issues. ...
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Denise Robert is an Academy Award-winning film producer. As President of the Montreal-based independent production company Cinémaginaire, Ms. Robert has helped create many critically acclaimed, popular films, including Le Confessionnel, C’t’à ton tour Laura Cadieux, Mambo Italiano, and The Barbarian Invasions. Denise Robert has contributed to the flowering of Québécois cinema, the most vibrant and successful film scene in Canada. ...
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Jozef Straus, PhD, DSc (Hon.), is the founder of JDS Uniphase and is recognized for his rare combination of scientific credentials, business acumen, and an unconventional and unpretentious approach to management. After launching JDS Fitel in 1981 with some colleagues, Straus led the firm through a period of unprecedented success. The 1999 merger with Uniphase made Straus’s firm one of the largest optical component makers in the world. ...
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Madeline Boscoe is the Executive Coordinator with the -Canadian Women’s Health Network. Over the years, Madeline Boscoe has played a central role in women’s health—as a health care provider, a project manager, an intervenor before the Supreme Court, an author, an editor, and a participant at various national and international conferences. She has done more than almost anyone else to further the cause of women’s health.     ...
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Gail Valaskakis, PhD is the Director of Research for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. She has dedicated herself to helping Aboriginal Canadians address many of the challenges they face. During an illustrious academic career, she focussed much of her work on the question of Northern and Aboriginal media and communications. In addition to her work within the Foundation, she was also a founding member of the first post-secondary institution in eastern Canada, Manitou College, designed specifical...
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William Commanda is an Algonquin Elder, and an internationally respected spokesperson on intercultural harmony and respect for the environment. Elder Commanda spent 19 years as the Chief of the Kitigan Zibi Reserve, near Maniwaki, Quebec. He has worked as a guide, a trapper and a woodsman, and is internationally famous as a birchbark canoe maker. He is the driving force behind “A Circle of All Nations”, which seeks to foster racial and cultural harmony, as well as respect for nature. ...
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Yanick Villedieu is the host of Les Années lumière, a popular science-focussed radio program on Société Radio-Canada that he has helmed for the past 23 years. Under his guidance, the program has explored a galaxy of subjects, including engineering and technology, outer space and astronomy, the science of the brain, genetics, the environment, and many more. Mr. Villedieu, an award-winning broadcaster, author, and journalist, has also written a number of books on health and the health care system...
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Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known historians, journalists, and political commentators. She has written a series of biographies and histories that have raised the profile of some of the outstanding people who have helped shape Canada, including Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill; and Canada, A Portrait in Letters 1800-2000. Charlotte Gray has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Pierre Berton Award, our nation’s top honour in his...
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