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Nova Scotian author BudgeWilson;
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Pharmacist MurrayKoffler, founder of Shoppers Drug Mart;
Nancy Gosling, presidentand CEO of Bermuda rum manufacturer Gosling Brothers Ltd.;
Randolph Hester, Jr.,professor of landscape architecture, environmental planning andurban planning at the University of California, Berkeley;
Businessman RichardCurrie, former president of Loblaw's Ltd., George WestonLtd. and Bell Canada Enterprises;
The Hon. Justice ThomasCromwell, the first 9 1免费版下 law professor to be named tothe Supreme Court of Canada;
Geneticist Sir PaulNurse, a 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine winner.
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