The CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival is among those who’ve been named to the Order of Canada in a list released on the eve of Canada Day.
Piers Handling joins former Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal Warren Winkler and former Ontario Cabinet Minister Isabel Basset on the list of Companions of the Order.
Also named, Toronto actor, writer and director Don McKeller, Michael Budman and Don Green, the founders of Roots Canada, former Olympic hockey player and now broadcaster Cassie Campbell, and Gerald Fagan, who is considered once of Canada’s premier choral conductors.
In all 113 new members will be inducted this year.