René Simard

René Claude Simard, CM, (born February 28, 1961) is a pop singer from Quebec.[1]

For the Canadian health professional, see René Simard (health professional).

Early life

Simard was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec.[1]

Career

In 1974, René Simard was awarded the Grand Prix by Frank Sinatra at the annual Tokyo Music Festival.[2] In Canada, he hosted the CBC Television series, The René Simard Show, from 1977 to 1979.[3]

Simard was also an occasional actor. He played the henchman Stu in the 1995 film Kids of the Round Table.[4][5]

Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the television series L'heure de gloire on Radio-Canada.[6]

Simard was formerly managed by Guy Cloutier as well as his sister Nathalie. In 2004, Cloutier was convicted of sexually assaulting Nathalie when she was a child.[7] Michel Vastel's 2005 book on the case, Briser le silence (Breaking the Silence), alleged that René co-operated with Cloutier in trying to hide the assaults.[8] In 2005, Simard made a public statement in which he denied this.[9]

In 1999 he briefly played the role of The Phantom in the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera (April to May 23, 1999). He was succeeded by Paul Stanley.[10]

Simard has been married to TV hostess Marie-Josée Taillefer since 1987.[11]

In 2014, Simard was named a Member of the Order of Canada "[f]or his contributions to the development of Quebec culture as a performer, host and director."[12]

gollark: Oh, and it's not a special case as much as just annoying, but it's a compile error to not use a variable or import. Which I would find reasonable as a linter rule, but it makes quickly editing and testing bits of code more annoying.
gollark: As well as having special casing for stuff, it often is just pointlessly hostile to abstracting anything:- lol no generics- you literally cannot define a well-typed `min`/`max` function (like Lua has). Unless you do something weird like... implement an interface for that on all the builtin number types, and I don't know if it would let you do that.- no map/filter/reduce stuff- `if err != nil { return err }`- the recommended way to map over an array in parallel, if I remember right, is to run a goroutine for every element which does whatever task you want then adds the result to a shared "output" array, and use a WaitGroup thingy to wait for all the goroutines. This is a lot of boilerplate.
gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?

References
  1. Menard, Denise; Grills, Barry; L'herbier, Benoit. "Rene Simard". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. Rene Simard with Frank Sinatra. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 29 January 1977. p. 33. ISSN 0006-2510.
  3. "Rene Simard, April 20, Salle Pierre-Mercure". The Montrealer. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. Kelly, Brendan (May 18, 1995). "Kids of the Round Table – Variety". Variety. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  5. Umland, Rebecca A.; Umland, Samuel J. (1996). The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film: From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 72. ISBN 0-313-29798-3. ISSN 0198-9871 – via Google Books.
  6. "De sacrés artistes à Sacré talent!". Le Devoir. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  7. Paquet, Daniel. "1975 - Du rêve au cauchemar". Le Journal De Quebec. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  8. "René Simard réplique à Michel Vastel". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  9. "Simard challenges book on sister". CBC. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  10. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/livent-s-phantom-to-leave-toronto-1.180153. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. "30 ans de mariage pour René Simard et Marie-Josée Taillefer". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  12. "Order of Canada Appointments". June 30, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.


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