Anne Golden (born 1941) is a Canadian administrator.
She received her
BA in history from
University College, University of Toronto
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, in 1962. She received an
MA from
Columbia University
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and a
PhD in American history from the
University of Toronto
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.
She joined the
United Way of Greater Toronto, Canada's largest annual fundraising campaign and non-governmental distributor of funds to the social services, in 1982 and was its President from 1987 to 2001. From 2001 until 2012, she was the President and CEO of
The Conference Board of Canada
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Describing itself as "objective" and "non-partisan", th ...
. In April 2012 she was named Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Special Advisor at
Ryerson University
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She was Chairman of the Greater Toronto Area Task Force for Ontario in 1996. In 1998,
Mel Lastman
Melvin Douglas Lastman (March 9, 1933 – December 11, 2021) was a Canadian businessman and politician who served as the third mayor of North York from 1973 to 1997 and 62nd mayor of Toronto from 1998 to 2003. He was the first person to serve ...
, the Mayor of Toronto, appointed her chair of the Toronto Homelessness Action Task Force.
She was director of research for the
Ontario Liberal Party
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The party espouses the principles of li ...
and special advisor to the Leader of the Opposition. She taught at Newark College of Engineering, the University of Toronto, and York University.
In 2003, she was made a Member of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the cen ...
. She has received five honorary doctorates, from
McMaster University
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(2011), the
University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...
(2011),
University of Toronto
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(2002),
York University
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(2000) and
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met) is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in Toro ...
(1997). The Conference Board named Anne Golden its 2012 Honorary Associate. In 2013, she was made a Member of the
Order of Ontario
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One of Golden's sisters is ''
National Post
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'' columnist
Barbara Kay
Barbara Kay (born 1943) is a columnist for the Canadian newspaper ''National Post''. She also writes a weekly column for '' The Post Millennial'' and a monthly column for '' Epoch Times''.
Kay announced on July 24, 2020, that she was leaving the ...
.
References
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1941 births
Living people
Members of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
Columbia University alumni
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
University of Toronto alumni