1. Candy Palmater was a Canadian actress, comedienne, and broadcaster.
18 Facts About Candy Palmater
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Candy Palmater was the creator and writer of her own national television show for APTN, The Candy Show, and hosted the daily interview series The Candy Palmater Show on CBC Radio One in summer 2016.
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Candy Palmater attended Dalhousie Regional High School, where she was active in sports.
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Candy Palmater's father was Mi'kmaq and her mother was white.
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Candy Palmater was a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation.
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Candy Palmater was inspired by the legal failures of the Donald Marshall Jr.
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Candy Palmater was the first Aboriginal law student in Canada to be valedictorian of her graduating class, and was president of the Dalhousie Aboriginal Law Students Association.
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Candy Palmater got a job with the now-defunct law firm Patterson Palmer Hunt Murphy, but soon realized she didn't want to practice corporate law, and subsequently left her job and began working for the Nova Scotia Department of Education.
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Candy Palmater was a regular contributor to CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera, a regular columnist on The Next Chapter, and an interim host of Q, and was a columnist for the now defunct Halifax newspaper The Daily News, where she wrote a series for Mi'kmaq History Month.
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The Candy Palmater Show is the title of a regular comedy series that airs on APTN.
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Candy Palmater was a regular performer on the comedy club circuit in Canada, as well as a frequent host of entertainment galas and events.
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Candy Palmater produced her first film, Building Legends: The Mi'Kmaq Canoe Project, in 2011.
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Candy Palmater was a frequent guest panellist on the CBC Radio One comedy series, Because News, hosted by Gavin Crawford, and narrated the documentary series Skindigenous.
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Candy Palmater had a recurring role in the CBC Television sitcom Run the Burbs, broadcast posthumously.
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Candy Palmater died at her home in Toronto on December 25,2021, at the age of 53.
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Candy Palmater's memoir, Running Down a Dream, was published posthumously in 2022.
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Candy Palmater was nominated for an East Coast Music Award for Media Person of the Year in 2013.
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The Candy Palmater Show was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Comedy TV Series, for director Trevor Grant.