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People who are shaping the future
of the Nation's Capital
50 Faces of Ottawa

In January 2001, Ottawa Life published its first annual Top People of the Capital Issue. We had 100 people on the list culled from an initial selection of over 200. The issue did exceptionally well - we sold out - even with a print overrun.We categorized the list under the headings of medicine, law, business, the arts, writers, architects, politics and media to provide some balance and a sense of objectivity, for these things are always, at their core, subjective.

We also wanted to have some gender parity. We only numbered
the Top 10 - the rest were considered first among equals, a rule that we are repeating again this year. Instead of choosing 100 people, this year we selected only 50 in an effort to provide more information on each person. We used the same categories as in 2001.

Last year, our Top pick was JDS-Uniphase CEO Jozef Straus. Who would have thought a year later that the tech economy would have buckled so badly and that JDS-Uniphase and Nortel and other hi-tech bastions would face massive layoffs and re-organizations? We also picked the Prime Minister as our number 2 choice. This year, we picked the Deputy Prime Minister - Hon. John Manley - as the most influential person in the city. Manley is a hometown boy and has risen to great heights from his humble beginnings in the city's south end. He shares the spotlight with Deputy Police Chief Sandra O'Sullivan and the very successful and popular Ottawa Sun Publisher Judy Bullis. CJOH's perennial news anchor Max Keeping once again tops the list. It was Keeping's reassuring but authoritative voice that guided us through a fall of tragic events, as we sat glued to our TV sets, watching the nightly suppertime news. Artists and restaurateurs, authors and builders, photographers and politicians are also featured on our list. All are just a sampling of the amazingpeople who make Ottawa a wonderful capital city.

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The Energizer Buddy

By Katie Warfield

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Natalie van den Bosch:
The New Face of CJOH
by Harvey Chartrand

Natalie van den Bosch knows where she's going. A CJOH News reporter since 1997, she is also a backup anchor and producer for CJOH-TV.
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