Order of Canada Appointees for December 2025 Including a Few Musicians

On December 31, 2025, 80 individuals were appointed to the Order of Canada, including a few musicians.

Below is a video the complete ceremony

Links: Order of Canada, More Order of Canada Stories, Video above courtesy of Rogers tv

Below is a complete list of appointees. Musicians and winners from the local area are bolded.

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Companions

• Raffi Cavoukian, C.C., O.B.C. (Salt Spring Island, British Columbia) - Children's Singer/Songwriter
  
  
  
  Links: Raffi , Video above courtesy of Raffi
  
  
• The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, C.C. (Toronto, Ontario) - Supreme Court, Professor
• Simon Brault, C.C., O.Q. (Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec) - Director of the Canada Council for the Arts
• Shaf Keshavjee, C.C., O.Ont. (Toronto, Ontario) - Thoracic surgeon-scientist, educator, hospital administrator
• The Honourable Michael James Moldaver, C.C., K.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) Supreme Court, Lawyer
• D. Lorne J. Tyrrell, C.C., A.O.E. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Professor and clinician-scientist

Officers

• Mandy Rennehan, O.C. (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) - Entrepreneur, philanthropist and TV personality
• Donald Lawrence Triggs, O.C. (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) - Vincor International (Winemakers)
• John Cameron Bell, O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Helped develop oncolytic virotherapy treatments. Education
• The Honourable Janice Charette, P.C., O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Clerk of the Privy Council
• Bert Cecil Crowfoot, O.C. (Edmonton, Alberta)  - Journalist, acclaimed photographer, founder and CEO of the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta
• Adele Diamond, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Researcher and co-founder of the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience
• Janice J. Eng, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Neurological rehabilitation
• Judy Illes, O.C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - University scholar and director of Neuroethics Canada
• Praveen Jain, O.C. (Kingston, Ontario) -  Inventor in electrical energy processing
• Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, O.C. (Montréal, Quebec) - Molecular oncology
• J. Curtis Nickel, O.C. (Sydenham, Ontario) -  Urologist
• Federico Rosei, O.C., C.Q. (Quebec) - Nanotechnology specialist
• Roseann Runte, O.C. (Ottawa, Ontario) - President of Carleton University
• Chandrakant Padamshi Shah, O.C., O.Ont. (Mississauga, Ontario) - Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health 
• Marina Andrea Graefin von Keyserlingk, O.C. (North Vancouver, British Columbia) - UBC professor

Members

• Terri Clark, C.M. (London, Ontario and Nashville, Tennessee) - Country musician
  
  
  
  Links: Terri Clark, More Terri Clark Stories, Video above courtesy of Terri Clark
  
  
• Nardwuar the Human Serviette, C.M. (West Vancouver, British Columbia) - Music journalism, musician
  
  
  
  Links: Nardwuar, Sabrina Carpenter, Video above courtesy of NardwuarServiette
  
  
• Barry Truax, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Authority in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music, composer, original member of the World Soundscape Project
  
  
  
  Links: Barry Truax, Video above courtesy of Barry Truax
  
  
• Muzammal Nawaz, C.M. (Burlington, Ontario) - Kickboxing, established the first-ever national federation
• Mary Ann Edwards, C.M. (St. Catharines, Ontario) - Founder and long-time volunteer director of the Rankin Cancer Run
• A. Peter Annan, C.M.(Mississauga, Ontario) - near-surface geophysics
• Phyllis A. Arnold, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Educator, writer, publisher
• Stephen Beckta, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Entrepreneur, board member and former chair of the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa
• Elsabeth Black, C.M., O.N.S. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Gymnast 
• Mark S. Bonham, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Financial services, ]2SLGBTQI+ advocate, champion of post-secondary education
• Kim Ruth Brooks, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Tax lawyer, professor and human rights advocate
• Wayne Richard Brownlee, C.M., S.O.M. (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) - Business and philanthropy, CFO of PotashCorp
• Rosanna Caira, C.M. (Woodbridge, Ontario)  -  Journalist, podcast host, editor and publisher of Foodservice and Hospitality and Hotelier magazines
• The Honourable Richard J. F. Chartier, C.M. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) - Chief Justice
• Penny Dorothy Collenette, C.M., O.Ont. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Educator, lawyer and commentator
• Patrick George Croskerry, C.M. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - Emergency medicine
• Jane Laurine Darville, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - health care administrator and community health specialist
• Andre De Grasse, C.M., O.Ont. (Markham, Ontario) - Seven-time Olympic medallist 
• Mark Dobbin, C.M. (Portugal Cove–St. Philip’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Founder of Killick Capital Inc., is a dedicated investor, mentor and entrepreneurship advocate
• Chris Dodd, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Deaf performing artist, playwright and accessibility advocate
• Sheila Dawn Early, C.M. (Surrey, British Columbia) - Forensic nursing
• Kathleen Fox, C.M. (Gatineau, Québec) - Aviator,  chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada
• Michelle Frances Good, C.M. (Maple Creek, Saskatchewan) Indigenous activist, lawyer and storyteller.
• Elly Gotz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Holocaust survivor and educator
• Gerald W. Grandey, C.M., S.O.M. (Denver, Colorado) - Former CEO of Cameco
• Reesa Greenberg, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Art history and museology, feminist and exhibition studies
• Hans-Jürgen Greif, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Professor, author, multilingualism promoter
• James C. Hathaway, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Scholar of public international law
• James William Hewitt, C.M. (Dorval, Quebec) - Hewitt Equipment Limited, philanthropist
• Charles A. Hopkins, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Educator in sustainable development
• Ian Ihor Orest Ihnatowycz, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropy, Ihnatowycz Family Foundation
• Eddy Isaacs, C.M. (Edmonton, Alberta) - Energy research
• Alfred Morris Kwinter, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Personal injury, property loss and insurance lawyer, director of the Advocates’ Society
• Gillian Kydd, C.M. (Roberts Creek, British Columbia) - Educator, co-founder of the Open Minds/Beyond the Classroom Network
• Martha Langford, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Art historian and scholar in the field of photographic arts
• Roger J. Lewis, C.M. (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) - Mi'kmaq historian and archaeologist
• William Joseph Logan, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Pediatric neurology
• Elizabeth MacLeod, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario)  - Children’s author
• Allison Joan McGeer, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Epidemiological policy advisor
• Irene Y. McNeill, C.M. (Aurora, Ontario) -  Helped develop the sport of sailing in Canada
• Rassi Nashalik, C.M. (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) - Inaugural host of CBC’s Igalaaq, the first Inuktitut-language daily television newscast
• Pamela Joan Newall, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Forensic science
• Brenda Okorogba, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Champions equitable access to education and workforce opportunities for diverse communities
• Patricia O’Malley, C.M. (Stratford, Ontario) - Chartered professional accountant
• Brendan John Paddick, C.M. (Freeport, Bahamas and Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Entrepreneur and executive,  co-founder of the Dollar A Day Foundation
• Susan Phillips, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - Professor, founded Canada’s only graduate program in philanthropy
• Alamin Proton Rahman, C.M., O.N.L.(St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) - Genomics expert, professor
• James Retallack, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Scholar of modern German history
• Jean Robert, C.M. (Québec, Quebec) - Educator and community leader, advocate for English‑language services in Quebec
• Whitney Michelle Rockley, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Co-founder of McRock Capital, first woman to chair the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
• Leonard Schein, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia) - founded Festival Cinemas, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and Alliance Atlantis Cinemas
• Walter John Schroeder, C.M. and Maria Schroeder, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario) - Philanthropists 
• Cindy Schwartz, C.M. (Montréal, Quebec) - Founder, artistic and general director of Les Muses, Canada’s first full-time professional performing arts training program for neurodivergent adults
• Karl Tomm, C.M. (Calgary, Alberta) - Psychiatrist, university professor and founder of the Calgary Family Therapy Centre
• Ziya Tong, C.M. (Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia) - Broadcaster, author, science journalist and filmmaker
• Michael Jon Villeneuve, C.M. (Mountain, Ontario) - CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association
• Della Wilkinson, C.M. (Ottawa, Ontario) - RCMP research scientist
• John Mark Willinsky, C.M. (Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California) - Founder of Public Knowledge Project

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