Candy Palmater

Background

Palmater was born in 1968 in Point Louisiana Nim, New Brunswick, and grew up the youngest of seven children.

Education

After high school, she attended Fredericton"s Saint Thomas University and then completed a legal secretary"s course at Maritime Business College.

She was inspired by the legal failures of Donald Marshall Junior. and in 1996, she went to Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia, to study Law at Schulich School of Law, where she graduated in 1999 as the valedictorian of her class. She 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.

She 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.

Career

She is active in Native rights and gay rights, and is now the creator and writer of her own national television show for APTN, The Candy Show. She describes the show as being “Oprah meets David Letterman sprinkled with Candy”. She currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

She is a regular contributor to Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio"s Definitely Not the Opera and a frequent guest 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.

Canadian Broadcasting Company Newsworld did a one-hour documentary on Palmater titled The Candy Show. lieutenant was produced and directed by Mary Munson in Halifax.

The executive producer is Renée Pellerin. The Candy Show is also the title of a regular comedy series which airs on APTN. Palmater is also a regular performer on the comedy club circuit in Canada, as well as a frequent host of entertainment galas and events.

Palmater produced her first film, Building Legends: The Mi"Kmaq Canoe Project, in 2011.

As an actor, she has had roles in the television series Forgive Maine and Sex & Violence.

Achievements

• She was nominated for an East Coast Music Award for Media Person of the Year in 2013. The Candy Show was also nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Variety or Comedy television Series, for director Trevor Grant. Foreign her work on the television series Forgive Maine, Candy was nominated for an ACTRA Award for Best Supporting Actress.