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Joey Votto

Joey Votto is a Canadian professional baseball player, best known for his stellar career with the Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball (MLB). Over the years, he has emerged as…

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Apoorva Mehta

Apoorva Mehta is the executive chairman and founder of Instacart, a San Francisco-based grocery delivery firm valued at $39 billion. Mehta studied engineering at the University of Waterloo before launching…

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Alain Bouchard

Alain Bouchard served as the Executive Chairman of Alimentation Couche-Tard since 2014, before stepping down as president and Chief Executive Officer. He opened his first convenience store in Quebec, 1980,…

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Mitchell Goldhar

Mitchell Goldhar is a Canadian billionaire and businessman who founded real estate firm SmartCentres and has been in the real estate development business for over 30 years.

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Jim Pattison

Jim Pattison began his career after purchasing a General Motors automobile dealership by borrowing $40,000 from the Royal Bank of Canada.

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James Irving

James Irving’s family fortune dates back to the 19th century, when his grandfather left Scotland and launched a general store and lumber and farming companies.

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Catherine Phillips

Catherine Phillips and her husband John Phillips are known for their investments in Canadian e-commerce firm Shopify. They each own about 1.5% of the wildly successful company.

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