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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Cindy Schwartz joins Order of Canada: her performing arts school trains dancers, actors, singers living with disabilities
Description: Cindy Schwartz started her life in dance when she was barely out of first grade, when her parents arranged for her to perform for patients at the Donald Berman Maimonides long-term care hospital in Montreal. At the time, they felt her passion for dancing should stay just a hobby—but Schwartz believes her late parents would be proud that she's transformed her passion into a decades-long project that culminated in her being named to the Order of Canada on Dec. 31, 2025. Schwartz founded Les Muses, Canada’s first full-time performing arts training program for neurodivergent adults, over three decades ago in Mon...