Name: Prof. Boris Steipe

Position: Biochemist, University Professor

Notoriety: Teaches at University of Toronto

During the Civic Workers Strike in the summer of 2009, Professor Steipe completed A Walk For One Bag of Garbage from the temporary residential garbage dump site in the hockey rink in Christie Pits Park to the Transfer station in the Portlands area.

The next day, his walk was on the front page, above the fold, of the Sing Tao Daily Newspaper.