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      Plume, Banx & Ranx, Ginette Reno, Nathalie Bonin, Roxane Bruneau, Mathieu Brisset

      Speaking Out: SOCAN advocates politically for music creators

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      President’s Message: The accelerating pace of change

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      Beatrice Deer has been writing songs for more than 25 years. The Montréal-based singer has been recognized by the Canadian Indigenous Music Awards, named Inuit Artist of the Year at the Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards, and earned a Canadian Screen Award for co-scoring Giant Bear, an animated short based on an Inuit folktale. And yet, when she contemplated making an album based on the legends of ...

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