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Trevor Guthrie is the former lead singer of the now defunct pop group soulDecision and is now a solo artist. Trevor Guthrie was born in Vancouver,... British Columbia. At age 3 he was playing the piano and played his first concert at four. In high school, he began playing the guitar and writing music. He can also speak French, Spanish, and Japanese. After a name change and a new record company, MCA, Indecision emerged as soulDecision. And released a number one smash hit with the pop/R&B song "Faded". The song became #1 hit in Canada and a top 25 hit in the United States. The success of that single was followed up by the smash "Ooh It's Kinda Crazy". The album No One Does It Better which was recorded in Velvet Sound Studios in Sydney, Australia; went on to sell over a million copies. After a four year hiatus and a label change, soulDecision released the single "Cadillac Dress". The single was a moderate radio hit. They released their second album Shady Satin Drug in November 2004. Due to the lack of support from the Canadian music industry, less than 2000 copies were printed and available for sale.
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Craig Buntin is a Canadian pair skater. With former partner Meagan Duhamel, he is the 2009 Canadian silver medalist, the 2008 & 2010 Canadian... bronze medalist, and the 2010 Four Continents bronze medalist. With Valérie Marcoux, he is represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they placed 11th. With partner Chantal Poirier, Buntin is the 2000 Canadian junior national champion. He teamed up with Valérie Marcoux in 2002 and together they are the 2004-2006 Canadian national champion. They split in early 2007 when Valérie Marcoux decided to retire from competition. In June 2007, Buntin teamed up with Meagan Duhamel. At their first competition together, the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy, they won the silver medal. In January 2008, the pair won the bronze medal at the Canadian Nationals but during the exhibition Buntin injured his shoulder, with which he had previous problems, as a result of a timing issue. They missed the Four Continents but competed at the 2008 World Championships in Sweden on March 19, 2008, despite the shoulder still being a problem, and finished 6th.
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Samantha Ferris is a Canadian actress and in the mid-1990s was a television reporter for the Bellingham, Washington station KVOS TV-12 and... Vancouver's BCTV, where she went by the name Janie Ferris. She is best known for her roles as Nina Jarvis on The 4400 and as Ellen Harvelle on Supernatural. In 2006, she had a recurring role on The Evidence as Lt. Alexa Brenner, appearing in seven episodes. Other recent television roles include that of deckhand Pollux in the episode "Dirty Hands" of Battlestar Galactica, as well as roles in Smallville, Stargate SG-1, The L Word and V. She was also the voice of Sally Po in the anime, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
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Tyron Leitso is a Canadian actor. Leitso was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He entered the acting industry when he worked as an... extra on several Vancouver-based television productions, including The X Files and Millennium. Leitso's first speaking role was for an episode in 1998 in the series Breaker High for UPN. He was cast as a lead, Derek MacMahon, in season one of the CBC teen drama Edgemont in 2000. He was also featured in the live-action remake of Snow White, as well as a TV biography of singer John Denver and the miniseries Dinotopia. In film, Leitso has appeared in the film My Life Without Me, starring Sarah Polley, and played one of the leads in House of the Dead. Leitso was featured as the romantic lead in the 2004 short-lived dramedy Wonderfalls, where he plays a husband whose wife cheated on him. In 2006, he starred in three episodes in the Canadian ensemble drama Whistler. Starting in 2009, he became part of the cast of Being Erica, where he plays the main character's friend and eventually boyfriend.
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Manuel Osborne-Paradis is a Canadian alpine skier. He grew up racing for the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. His first World Cup podium came in November... 2006 at the Bombardier Winterstart men's downhill in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. His first victory was at the Downhill of Kvitfjell in March 2009. In April 2008 he joined forces with teammate Mike Janyk to provide a four day training camp free of charge to underprivileged Canadian racers from around British Columbia. The camp, known locally as the "Cowboys Camp", took place on Whistler Mountain. On 29 January 2011 he crashed badly at the Worldcup-Downhill-Race in Chamonix . He was taken to hospital by helicopter and treated for a broken leg and torn knee ligament. On July 15, 2011, in Calgary, Alberta, an intoxicated Osborne-Paradis jumped onto the back of a moving "party bus" but lost his balance. He was then dragged approximately 80 meters before the bus stopped. He suffered severe road rash to his buttocks and later underwent surgery. He was charged under the Traffic Safety act for the incident.
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Michael Janyk is a Canadian alpine skier. Janyk appeared for the Canadian team in the slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he finished... in 17th place. Janyk has yet to win a World Cup race in his professional career, but has finished second on one occasion, December 3, 2006 in a slalom race in Beaver Creek. He also won the bronze medal in Slalom in February at the 2009 Alpine Skiing World Championship in Val d'Isère. Mike is an avid user of Twitter and has been a popular athlete to follow at @mikejanyk. His sister Britt Janyk also competes in the alpine skiing World Cup.
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