Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards
The Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards is an annual campaign by Canadian Immigrant magazine that recognizes outstanding work by immigrants who "have come to Canada and have made a positive difference living in the country."[1]
Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding community work by Canadian immigrants |
Sponsored by | Canadian Immigrant |
Date | 2009 |
Country | Canada |
Formerly called | RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards |
Website | canadianimmigrant.ca |
Overview
First launched by Canadian Immigrant in 2009, the program takes place online and nominations are open to all Canadians. The program is divided into three phases: nominations, voting and winners announcements. At the start of each year, Canadian Immigrant invites nominations based on a variety of criteria, which range from contribution to community to professional accomplishments. The award is open to immigrants from all walks of life, be it a community advocate or volunteer, a successful entrepreneur or a cultural icon. A judging panel composed of leaders who work within the immigrant or ethnic communities determine the shortlist on which the public vote.[2]
The winners are featured online and in a special issue each year. Past winners include Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games CEO John Furlong, CBC News anchor Ian Hanomansing, Canada's 26th Governor General Adrienne Clarkson,[3] entrepreneur/philanthropist Aditya Jha[4] and mental health activist Loizza Aquino.
Award recipients
2023
Recipients in 2023 include:[5]
- Agunbiade Seun Richards
- Ali Abukar
- Ann Pornel
- Archana Medhekar
- Beili Wong
- Cindy Sinclair, PhD.
- Dean Lin
- Edward Cruz, PhD
- Faouzia Ouihya
- Florence Ngenzebuhoro
- Hanen Nanaa
- Henoc Muamba
- Leslie Woo
- Maninder Dhaliwal
- Mena Massoud
- Mina Hoorfar, PhD.
- Mustafa Popalzai
- Natasha Dhayagude
- Ndiallo Aw Badji
- Paola Ardiles Gamboa, PhD.
- Raymond Ngarboui
- Sam Primucci
- Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan
- Winston Sayson
- Wyle Baoween
2022
Recipients in 2022 include:[6]
- Tosin Ajibola
- Damineh Akhavan
- Patrick Alcedo
- Minister Omar Alghabra
- Anil Arora
- Mariam Bilgrami
- Karla Briones
- Rita Chahal
- Diana Alli D’Souza
- Tracy Folorunsho-Barry
- Raquel Fox
- Dr. Sivakumar Gulasingam
- John Herdman
- Dr. Akshay Jain
- Bhutila Karpoche
- Mohamed Lachemi, PhD
- Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
- Leen Li
- Arnon Melo
- Roda Muse
- Amie Peacock
- Janaka Ruwanpura, PhD
- Harman Singh
- Ruairi Spillane
- Rui Wang, PhD
2021
Recipients in 2021 include:[7]
- Luis Carlos Flores Aguilar
- Lanre Ajayi
- Gentille M. Assih
- Ida Beltran-Lucila
- Tulia Castellanos
- Hon. Justice Mahmud Jamal
- Dr. Victoria Lee
- Indra Maharjan
- Ginella Massa
- Paola Murillo
- Edsel Mutia
- Leon Ng
- Rita Orji
- Gurdeep Pandher
- Ajay Patel
- Shreya Patel
- Jack Rabba
- Bukola Salami
- Dr. Pere Santamaria
- Anil Shah
- Sonia Sidhu
- Zen Tharani
- Boris Tsimerinov
- Hassan Wadi
- Jaclyn (Jie) Zhang
2020
Recipients in 2020 include:[8]
- Ajibola Abitoye
- Shahab Anari
- Samer Bishay
- Serena Chan
- Kanwar Dhanjal
- Sharmarke Dubow
- Isaac Garcia-Sitton
- Virginia Guiang-Santoro
- Tareq Hadhad
- Basavaraj Halli
- Hamza Haq
- Mike Hurley
- Dr. Shanthi Johnson
- Meryam Joobeur
- Conny Lo
- Jakub Martinec
- Adeola Olubamiji
- Fariba Pacheleh
- Bruce Poon Tip
- Dr. Henry Reis
- Arlene Ruiz
- Krishana Sankar
- Harsh Thakkar
- Dr. Halia M. Valladares Montemayor
- Maryam Yaqoob
2019
Recipients in 2019 include:[9]
- Mohd Jamal Alsharif
- Javier Badillo
- Selwyn Collaco
- Rola Dagher
- Monika Deol
- Tulsi Dharel
- Krittika D'Silva
- Rouba Fattal
- Ali Ghorbani
- Giacomo Gianniotti
- Devesh Gupta
- Devina Kaur
- Nizar Ladak
- Philip Lee
- Marquis Lung
- Iqbal Malek
- Sam Mod
- Brenda Okorogba
- Maryam Sadeghi
- Gelaine Santiago
- Wali Shah
- Kimberlee Shelley-Ajibolade
- Jane Shin
- Dr. Nhung Tran-Davies
- Samra Zafar
2018
Recipients in 2018 include:[10]
- Margaret Adu
- Pooneh Alizadeh
- Mohammed Alsaleh
- Loizza Aquino
- Sara Asalya
- Harbhajan Singh Athwal
- Nav Bhatia
- Roberto Campanella
- Kundan Joshi
- Isabel Kanaan
- Dr. Raj Khanuja
- Sophie Lavieri
- Kin Wah Leung
- Tinashe Mafukidze
- Prof. Dr. Mario Monteiro
- Dr. Saroj Niraula
- Dr. Boluwaji Ogunyemi
- Senator Ratna Omidvar
- Bernardo Riveros
- Priti Shah
- Naseem Somani
- Karl Subban
- Josephine Victoria Yam
- Rana Zaman
- Jianhua Zhu
2017
Recipients in 2017 include:[11]
- Ishita Aggarwal
- Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta
- Gabriela Covaci
- Dahlia ElShafie-Mostafa
- Mohamad Fakih
- Jennifer Gillivan
- Chan Hon Goh
- Raghwa Gopal
- Maziar Heidari
- Minister Ahmed Hussen
- Abdullah Kafashe
- Tony Luk
- Trish Mandewo
- Florfina Marcelino
- Noelle Milne
- Agnes P. Miranda
- Dr. Muhammad Morshed
- Dr. James Orbinski
- Shahrzad Rafati
- Ahmad Danny Ramadan
- Miroslav Reljic
- Ninela Sanchez
- Kuldeep Sharma
- Ajay Virmani
- Senator Yuen Pau Woo
2016
Recipients in 2016 include:[12]
- Kiran Ahluwalia
- Leen Al Zaibak
- Godwin Chan
- Tilak Chawan
- Queenie Choo
- Igor Dobrovolskiy
- Emma Donoghue
- Josephine Etowa
- Chandran Fernando
- Azita Haddadi
- Narmin Ismail
- Christians Izquierdo
- Perla Javate
- Jin Jiang
- Ignat Kaneff
- Leon Lee
- Fiona Macfarlane
- Mina Mawani
- Renan Orquiza
- Nasser Rad
- Minister Harjit Sajjan
- Fred Farhad Soofi
- Kumaran Thillaindarajah
- Avan Yu
- Félix Zogning
2015
Recipients in 2015 include:[13]
- Tikaram Adhikari
- Soheila Ansari
- Amrik Singh Aulakh
- Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia
- Henri Boyi
- John Chang
- Alice Chung
- Amanda Yeung Collucci
- Ver Cruz
- Bob Dhillon
- Dr. Qais Ghanem
- Sherif Guorgui
- John Iwaniura
- Susur Lee
- Dr. Tak Wah Mak
- Dr. Rosemary Moodie
- Shasha Navazesh
- Dr. Dhun Noria
- Umashanie Reddy
- Maria Nieves Santos-Greaves
- Thilak Tennekone
- Kim Thúy
- Vikram Vij
- Gezahgn Wordofa
- Ana María Zúniga
2014
Recipients in 2014 include:[14]
- Akram Al-Otumi
- Alan Diner
- Alberto Rodil
- Amit Chakma
- Anna Wolak
- Arlene Dickinson
- Dalal Al-Waheidi
- Farah Mohamed
- Gentil Misigaro
- Gradimir Pankov
- Ilse Treurnicht
- James Wang
- John Volken
- Julie Suen
- Manwar Khan
- Mobina Jaffer
- Nassreen Filsoof
- Naval Baja
- Peter Mielzynski
- Roberto Hausman
- Sarthak Sinha
- Senthi Chelliah
- Shala Chandani
- Dr. Surinder Singh Khurana
- Vivian Abboud
2013
Recipients in 2013 include:[15]
- Aleksandra Nasteska
- Aminata Sillah
- Anar Popatia
- Ginni Sethi
- Indira Samarasekera
- Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Dr. Jawahar (Jay) Kalra
- Leticia LaRosa
- Luis Guillermo Guerra
- Luisa Marshall
- Mamdouh Shoukri
- Michael Tulloch
- Narine Dat Sookram
- Rany Ibrahim
- Sara Eftekhar
- Sharifa Khan
- Sing Lim Yeo
- Srinivasan Suppiramaniam
- Steve Gupta
- Steve Nash
- Sukhdev Toor
- Sukhjit Singh
- Wen Wei Wang
- Winnie Wong
- Zahra Al-Harazi
2012
Recipients in 2012 include:[16]
- Francis Atta
- Kehar Singh Aujla
- Iman Biock Aghay
- Juan Carranza
- Olivia Chow
- Isabel Cisterna
- Meleni David
- Narima Dela Cruz
- Jagjit Singh Hans (Tiger Jeet Singh)
- Daniel Igali
- Commodore Hans Jung
- Suresh Kurl
- Peter Legge
- Tonny Louie
- Ahmed Mustaq
- Dr. Rey Pagtakhan
- Dr. Vivian Rambihar
- Zubeida Ramji
- Satish Thakkar
- Bing Thom
- Ai Thien Tran
- Madhu Verma
- Keinan "K'naan" Abdi Warsame
- Tonya Williams
- Nancy Zein
2011
Recipients in 2011 include:[17]
- Ahmed Abdullahi
- Leticia Adair
- Ari Asmar
- Jean Augustine
- Baljit Bawa
- Pinball Clemons
- Guilherme Dias
- Audrey D’Souza-Moraes
- Esa Para Esananda
- Karim Hakimi
- Robert Herjavec
- Alan Ho
- Toshi Jackson
- Mike Jang
- Mythili Kalyanasundaram
- Ihor Kozak
- Aditya Mohan
- Pyarali Nanji
- Gautam Nath
- Royson Ng
- Nick (Naeem) Noorani
- Victor Oh
- Alex Sangha
- Zulima Wesso
2010
Recipients in 2010 include:[18]
- Donovan Bailey
- Raffi Cavoukian
- Vasdev Chanchlani
- Dr. Jagessar Das
- Rafael Fabregas
- John Furlong
- Charan Gill
- Ian Hanomansing
- Maggie Ip
- Sultan Jessa
- Aditya Jha
- Vinod Karna
- David Lin
- Dr. Joyce Madigane
- Hadi-Khan Mahabadi
- Dr. Lalita Malhotra
- Vivienne Poy
- Sumith Priyashantha
- Balwant Sanghera
- Vijay Sappani
- Dr. Asha Seth
- Fulvia Fadigas de Souza
- Yasuko Tanaka
- Parag Tandon
- Suchart Yodkerepauprai
2009
Recipients in 2009 include:[19]
- Girish Agrawal
- Dr. Birinder Singh
Ahluwalia
- Naseer Ahmad
- Francis Amara
- James Atebe
- Elaine Chan
- Chia-yi Chua
- Adrienne Clarkson
- Baltej Singh Dhillon
- Narinder Dhir
- Ujjal Dosanjh
- John Halani
- Michaelle Jean
- Deepa Mehta
- Rossbina Nathoo
- Body Ngoy
- Martha Lucia Nino
- Dr. Colin Saldanha
- Terry Sawh
- Dr. Lorelei and
Dr. Rosalind Silverman
- Hari Varshney
- Marcello Veiga
- Anupama Vittal
- Wendy Yuan
References
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- "Award ceremony recognizes top Canadian immigrants". CTV News. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- "Canada Has Chosen: Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2010". Canadian Immigrant. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- "Aditya Jha". Canadian Immigrant. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- "Canadas Top 25 Immigrants 2023". Canadian Immigrant. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
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- Canadian Immigrant. "2016 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners". Canadian Immigrant.
- Canadian Immigrant. "2015 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners". Canadian Immigrant.
- Canadian Immigrant. "2014 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners". Canadian Immigrant.
- Canadian Immigrant. "2013 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners". Canadian Immigrant.
- Canadian Immigrant. "2012 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners". Canadian Immigrant.
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- "Canada's Top 25 Immigrants 2010". Canadian Immigrant. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- "Canada's Top 25 Immigrants 2009". Canadian Immigrant. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
External links
- "RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants". Canadian Immigrant. 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2019-09-10.