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    Snotty Nose Rez Kids

    Snotty Nose Rez Kids is a hip-hop music duo comprised of Quinton "Yung Trybez" Nyce and Darren "Young D" Metz. Young D and Yung Trybez grew up in British Columbia and are members of the Haisla Nation. They began making music together in high school. As the Snotty Nose Rez Kids, they have released six albums, been nominated for myriad awards and performed across North America, Australia and Europe. Their music shines a light on many subjects, including the lives, challenges, cultures and hopes of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

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    SOCAN

    SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada/Société canadienne des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) is a not-for-profit copyright collective that administers performing rights on behalf of its members — Canadian composers, songwriters, lyricists, and their publishers — as well as members of its international sister societies throughout the world.

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    Société musicale Ste-Cécile

    Société musicale Ste-Cécile. A 50-voice amateur mixed choir founded 15 Dec 1869 in Quebec City by Antoine Dessane. Dessane, the organist at St-Roch Church at the time, served as the society's president and director until his death in 1873.

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    Sister Angèle

    Sister Angèle, née Angiola Rizzardo Di Agostino, CM, C.Q., nun of the Sœurs du Bon-Conseil, chef, artist, culinary host, author, ambassador, singer (born 11 August 1938 in Cavaso del Tomba, province of Treviso, Veneto region, Italy). When she met Pope Benedict XVI to commemorate her 50 years of religious life, he concluded that, given her good nature and spontaneity, she was “a temple of life.”

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    Simon Reisman

    Sol Simon Reisman, OC, public servant (born 19 June 1919 in Montreal, QC; died 9 March 2008 in Ottawa, ON). Simon Reisman contributed to significant trade negotiations and agreements. He is recognized for his role as chief negotiator during free trade talks with the United States in the 1980s. (See also International Trade.)

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    Solange Chaput-Rolland

    ​Solange Chaput-Rolland, OC, OQ, author, television host, politician, senator and advocate for constitutional recognition of Québec’s special status within the Canadian federation (born 14 May 1919 in Montréal, QC; died 31 October 2001 in Sainte-Marguerite-Estérel, QC). 

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    Soldiers of Fortune

    Soldiers of Fortune is a term used to describe those ready to serve in a military or police capacity under any state or person outside their own country.

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    Solicitor

    A solicitor is a lawyer who advises on legal problems and whose work - contracts of sale, real-estate transactions, wills and trusts - normally does not require court appearance.

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    Solicitor General

    The office of the solicitor general has its historic roots in England. In Canada the office varies substantially from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some provinces the office of the solicitor general is subsumed under one or more different portfolios, but in most it is separate and distinct.

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    Solomon Van Rensselaer

    Solomon Van Rensselaer, military general (b at Greenbush, Rensselaer County, NY, 6 Aug 1774; d near Albany, NY, 23 April 1852). Solomon Van Rensselaer was the son of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, a Revolutionary War general, and a member of a powerful Dutch patroon family.

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    Somalia Affair

    In 1992–93, Canada contributed military forces to UNITAF, a United Nations–backed humanitarian mission in the African nation of Somalia. In 1993, Canadian soldiers from the now-defunct Airborne Regiment tortured and killed a Somali teenager named Shidane Arone. These and other violent abuses during the mission shocked Canadians and damaged the country’s international reputation. They also led to a public inquiry that revealed serious failures of leadership at the highest levels of the Canadian Armed Forces, kick-starting reforms aimed a professionalizing the officer corps. This article contains sensitive material that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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    Sondra Gotlieb

    Sondra Gotlieb, author (b at Winnipeg 30 Dec 1936). Educated in Winnipeg, she has published 2 novels: True Confections (1978), subtitled Or How My Family Arranged My Marriage, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and First Lady, Last Lady (1981), a lively tale of diplomatic life.

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    Songwriters and Songwriting (English Canada) 1921-1954

    Songwriters and Songwriting (English Canada) 1921-1954. Several Canadian songwriters who had enjoyed national and international success in the era prior to 1920 continued to produce hits after the introduction of commercial radio.

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    Songwriters and Songwriting (English Canada) 1954-2000s

    Songwriters and songwriting (English Canada), 1954-2000s. The period in popular music from 1954 to the early 2000s was largely characterized by a significant increase in the number of contrasting styles, and by a shift to the majority of songwriters mostly performing their own material.

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    Songwriters and Songwriting (English Canada) Before 1921

    Songwriters and Songwriting (English Canada) Before 1921. Canadian songwriters contributed some of the most famous popular music and jazz "standards" of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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