Lewis Kay, a senior scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and University Professor of molecular genetics at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and philanthropist Donald K. Johnson, a U of T Arbor Award recipient, were promoted to Companion.
Named Officers include Alison Keith, cited for transforming the study of Latin epic through work on gender and genre; Beverley Orser, cited for advancing understanding of anesthesia and its effects on the brain; and Cecilia Benoit and Mary Thompson.
Named Members include Kona Kristen Chant Williams, Canada's first First Nations forensic pathologist; Harvey Skinner, founding dean of the Faculty of Health at York University; and Allan Covens, Martha L. P. MacLeod and John William Foster, the social justice and human rights advocate who died April 18, 2026.
Reported from U of T alumni, faculty and community members recognized with Order of Canada, by Not stated in source (U of T Alumni News, July 8, 2026).
More from the original reporting: alumni.utoronto.ca/news/alumni-faculty-community-members-order-canada-2026