Dancer Lucy Rupert (BA '96, Dance/Music) stars in 'The Animals Are Planning An Intervention' at Harbourfront's Enwave Theatre, Toronto.
Jim McGarva (BMath '08) will be the Green Party federal candidate for the riding of St. Paul's, Toronto.
Bob Rosehart (BASc '67, MASc '68, PhD '70, Chemical Engineering; DEng '06, Honourary Doctor of Engineering), former president of Wilfrid Laurier University, will run as the Liberal Party federal candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga.
The young adults book Rex Zero: The Great Pretender, written by Tim Wynne-Jones (BA '74, Fine Arts), was first released in softcover in 2009, but is now available in hardcover. Blink & Caution was released in March.
Marc Rigaux (BA '01, Economics) has produced Textuality, a movie about love and Blackberrys, that will be released on April 22 in cities across Canada.
University of Western Ontario announces the appointment of Charmaine Dean (MMath '84, Statistics; PhD '88, Statistics) as Faculty of Science dean.
Terry Allen (BA '91, Religious Studies) retiring from a 35-year career as a Cambridge, Ontario firefighter - the last 19 as chief.
Ethical Ocean, a company whose founders include Waterloo alumni Jonathan Fishbein (BSE '06, Software Engineering; MASc '08, SYDE) and Michael Spendlove (BASc '08, SYDE) earned a deal with Arlene Dickinson and some flak from Kevin O'Leary on the March 30 season finale of Dragon's Den.
Paul Thompson (BA '91, Chartered Accountancy St, HCO) to become Interim-CFO of the Sonova Group.
Polar Mobile, whose clients include Time Inc. and CBS Sports, has signed a deal with RIM to design "at least" 100 apps this year. Kunal Gupta (BSE '08, Software Engineering) is Polar's CEO.