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Weston A. Price
1870 – 1948Dentist whose global survey of traditional diets tied refined food to physical degeneration.
Canada·Nutrition · Medicine
Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941Co-discovered insulin and sold the patent for one dollar.
Canada·MedicineNobel
Abram Hoffer
1917 – 2009Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.
Canada·Functional Medicine · Psychology · Medicine
Alice Munro
1931 – 2024Made the short story carry the weight of novels.
Canada·LiteratureNobel
Margaret Atwood
b. 1939The Handmaid's Tale became the global shorthand for reproductive coercion.
Canada·Literature
Gabor Maté
b. 1944Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.
Canada·Integrative Medicine · Psychology