October 19, AM - Alanis Obomsawin

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Obomsawin, a director at the National Film Board of Canada and member of the Abenaki Nation, is one of Canada's most distinguished documentary filmmakers.  Her seminal work, "Kenehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance," explored the 1990 Oka crisis.  An officer of the Order of Canada, Obomsawin is also an accomplished singer/songwriter, engraver and print-maker.

October 18, PM - Calvin Stiller

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Stiller established the Multi-Organ Transplant Service in London and served as the unit's chief from 1984 to 1996.  During this period, he was principal investigator of the Canadian multi-centre study that established the importance of Cyclosporine in transplantation and led to its worldwide use as a first-line therapy for transplant rejection.