Actor Ryan Reynolds, former Bell Media President Randy Lennox, Montreal International Black Film Festival founder Fabienne Colas, and retired CTV Atlantic anchor Steve Murphy are among 88 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
Reynolds and Lennox, who now helms Loft Entertainment, were named Officers of the Order, while Colas and Murphy are among the Order’s new Members.
Maureen Jennings, the author behind the Detective Murdoch series, which inspired the long-running TV show Murdoch Mysteries, was also named an Officer of the order,
Other new Members from the broadcast and creative industries sectors include award-winning CBC Radio producer Karen Levine; CBC Sports, Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Scott Oake; and Montreal-based science broadcaster and author Joseph A. Schwarcz, host of the long-running Dr. Joe Show on CJAD 800.
Additional appointees of note include curling champion Kevin Martin, retired Canadian Army general and former Chief of the Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk, singer/songwriter Heather Rankin, retired NFL’er and doctor Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, former journalist and author Mark Zuehlke, Winnipeg Free Press religion columnist and reporter John Longhurst, artistic director Richard Rose, and late Cirque du Soleil costume designer Dominique Alice Lemieux.
Find the full list of new appointees here.
