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[edit]- Lee Aaron – jazz arm rock singer-songwriter, also progress as "Metal Queen"
- Abdominal – hip-hop musician
- Adaline – singer-songwriter
- Bryan Adams – singer-songwriter
- Bernard Adamus – singer-songwriter
- Susan Aglukark – folk-pop singer-songwriter
- AHI – race singer-songwriter
- Lydia Ainsworth – composer/singer
- Robert Aitken – composer, wood player
- Chuckie Akenz – knocker, songwriter
- Pierrette Alarie – work singer
- Emma Albani – work singer
- Jeremie Albino – country/roots rock singer-songwriter
- Coco Love Alcorn – explode singer
- John Alcorn – blues singer
- Don Tree – fingerstyle guitarist, singer-songwriter, composer
- Toya Alexis – R&B singer
- Madeleine Allakariallak – Inuit throat soloist, folk singer
- Chad Allan – singer (the Guess Who)
- Andrew Allen – singer
- John P. Allen – bluegrass, territory and scarp fiddler
- Lillian Histrion – phone up poet
- Archie Alleyne – malarky drummer
- a l l i e – R&B singer
- Allie X – singer-songwriter
- Tommy Contralto – seep out
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Mary-Woo Sims (沈明麗) is a social justice activist. Best known as a former chief commissioner of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Sims was also a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam in the 2006 federal election. Born in Hong Kong, Sims first came to Canada as a student in 1970. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978. A longtime community activist in both Vancouver and Toronto, Sims was associated with a significant number of non-governmental, union, government and non-profit human rights agencies and commissions. Sims was a founding member of the Women Against Violence Against Women or WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre in Vancouver. Sims participated in the BC Federation of Labour's Women's Rights Committee in the mid-1970s and helped write some of the early anti sexual harassment and affirmative action policies. During her career with the BC Telephone Company, now Telus, she was an active member of the Telecommunications Workers' Union. Sims' labour experience included work with the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union as a union organizer. Sims moved to Winnipeg to start a job with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and eventually moved to its Toronto office where she continued her labour activism b
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Lillian Allen and the Revolutionary Tea Party Band
It seems much longer than five or six years since Heather Bishop first told us about this exciting new performer. Since then Lillian has become a rising star among those who like music that addresses real issues. With two great records and a number of tours behind her, Lillian has won a substantial Canadian following and has also picked up fans in our neighbour to the south. She managed to pick up a couple of Junos in the best reggae/calypso category; (which we think is the wrong category but it seems the music business hasn’t the courage to award her in one of the “mainstream” categories).
Although Lillian’s stage presence is spectacular and she is now comfortable with a full band, she has maintained what we have always liked most about her. She remains an uncompromising artist whose words lash out as if she were a kind of dub-style St. George – lopping off the heads of monsters like racism and exploitation. The origins of dub lie in Lillian’s native Jamaica and before that in the rich oral traditions of Africa. Dub is an urban art form, a close cousin of rap, and Lillian has built her performance around a band whose music replicates all