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    Michael Levine (Profile)

    Toronto’s COC ended up with precisely that when it hired innovative Quebec director Robert Lepage and Levine to create its double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung (Expectation), a half-hour 1909 work for solo soprano.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 16, 1995

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    Michael Luchkovich

    Michael Luchkovich, teacher, politician, author (born 13 November 1892 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania; died 21 April 1973 in Edmonton, AB). In 1926, Michael Luchkovich became the first Ukrainian Canadian to be elected to Parliament. A member of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), he was re-elected in 1930 but defeated in 1935, when he ran as part of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). A staunch defender of minority rights in Canada, Luchkovich was an early advocate for multiculturalism. He later translated books from Ukrainian into English.

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    Michael Matthews

    Matthews, Michael (Bass). Composer, teacher, conductor, b Gander, Nfld, 28 Aug 1950; B MUS (California State, Northridge) 1975, MA (California State, Sacramento) 1979, PH D (North Texas State) 1982.

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    Michael McMahon

    Michael McMahon. Pianist, coach, accompanist, b Gratton Township, Ont, 23 Jan 1954; B MUS piano (McGill) 1978, diploma vocal accompaniment (Vienna Academy) 1980. McMahon began piano studies at 6, then worked 1972-8 with Charles Reiner at McGill University and 1978-80 with F.

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    Michael Miller

    Miller, Michael (Richard). Composer, pianist, b Lisbon 24 Jul 1932, naturalized Canadian 1972; BA (New York University) 1955, MA (ESM) 1956, PH D (ESM) 1971. He studied composition at the ESM with Bernard Rogers and Wayne Barlow. He taught at New York University 1961-5 and Vassar College 1965-6.

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    Michael Murphy

    Michael George Murphy, actor (born 5 May 1938 in Los Angeles, California). Over the course of five decades, recognizable character actor Michael Murphy has parlayed his mildly morose, blandly urbane persona into an impressive repertoire of roles as angst-ridden sad sacks and morally muddled professionals. These characters are most notably seen in Murphy’s long and fruitful association with legendary director Robert Altman, with whom Murphy worked more often than any other actor.

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    Michael Oesterle

    Michael Oesterle. Composer, born Ulm, Germany, 29 Jun 1968; B MUS (British Columbia) 1992. Michael Oesterle immigrated to Canada in 1982.

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    Michael Ondaatje

    Often based on the unorthodox lives of real people, Michael Ondaatje's poetry and prose is characterized by its preoccupation with multiculturalism and its gravitation toward the bizarre, the exaggerated, and the unlikely.

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    Michael Ondaatje Interview

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on September 9, 2002. Partner content is not updated. Canadian author Michael Ondaatje is an avid film buff. And as he watched his novel The English Patient being adapted for the screen, he became fascinated with the mind of the movie's Oscar-winning editor.

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    Michael Parker

    Michael (Philip) Parker, composer, violist, classicist (born 13 February 1948 in Toronto, ON; died 8 April 2017 in Halifax, NS). BA classics (Toronto) 1971, MA classics (Toronto) 1972, PH D (McMaster) 1991.

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    Michael Redhill

    Michael Redhill (a.k.a. Inger Ash Wolfe), poet, playwright, short-story writer, novelist (born 12 June 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland). Michael Redhill is known for his award-winning poetry, plays and novels. His 2001 play Building Jerusalem won a Dora Award and a Chalmers Award, and his 2005 play Goodness won two top prizes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He won the 2001 Books in Canada First Novel Award for Martin Sloane, the 2007 City of Toronto Book Award for Consolation and the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Bellevue Square. He has also published three successful crime thrillers under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe.

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    Michael Riley

    His first notable appearance was as Chris Blaine in William Fruet's masterful 10-part miniseries Chasing Rainbows (1988). Riley's breakthrough role was that of the cross-dressing brewery employee Renzo Parachi in Yves Simoneau's fanciful cult favourite, Perfectly Normal (1991).

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    Michael Robinson

    Michael Robinson, artist (b at Timmins, Ont 27 Mar 1948). A self-taught artist with a lyrical and surreal style, Robinson is noted for his ink drawings and etchings. His concerns are the conservation of natural resources and revitalization of Indigenous cultural values.

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    Michael Rubbo

    Rubbo emerged as an important new voice in documentary cinema (seeFILM, DOCUMENTARY) in 1970 when he directed Sad Song of Yellow Skin, a film about his own experiences on a visit to Saigon during the Vietnam War.

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    Michael Sabia (Profile)

    In her day, the late Laura Sabia was never shy about poking establishment noses. Tart and outspoken, the founding president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1972 was a champion upender of the status quo.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 3, 2002

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