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Raffi Cavoukian, (Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music. [1]

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Adult Entertainment (album)

Adult Entertainment is Raffi's third LP album for his Troubadour label, released in 1977.

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Advertising to children

Advertising to children is the act of marketing or advertising products or services to little children as defined by national legislation and advertising standards.

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Ann Cavoukian

Ann Cavoukian (born October 7, 1952) is the former Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian province of Ontario, serving from 1997 to 2014.

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Armenians

Armenians (հայեր, hayer) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands.

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Baby Beluga

Baby Beluga is a children's music album by children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1980.

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Bananaphone

Bananaphone is a popular children's album released by Raffi and Michael Creber in 1994.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Child advocacy

Child advocacy refers to a range of individuals, professionals and advocacy organizations who speak out on the best interests of children.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Children's music

Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children.

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David Korten

David C. Korten (born 1937) is an American author, former professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems".

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David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist.

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David Wilcox (Canadian musician)

David Karl William Wilcox (born July 13, 1949) is a Canadian rock musician.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016

The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Doctor of Music

The Doctor of Music degree (D.Mus., D.M., Mus.D. or occasionally Mus.Doc.) is a higher doctorate awarded on the basis of a substantial portfolio of compositions and/or scholarly publications on music.

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Down by the Bay

"Down by the Bay" is a traditional children's song.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Evergreen Everblue

Evergreen Everblue is a music album by popular children's entertainer Raffi, released in 1990.

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Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").

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Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.

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Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Graça Machel

Graça Machel (née Simbine,, 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC; Commissaire à l’information et à la protection de la vie privée de l'Ontario) was established as an officer of the Legislature by Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA, 1987), which came into effect on January 1, 1988.

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Iona Campagnolo

Iona Victoria Campagnolo, (née Hardy, born October 18, 1932) is a Canadian politician, and was the 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia and the first woman to hold the office.

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Joel Bakan

Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician, filmmaker, and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

"Marge vs.

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Mary Gordon (child advocate)

Mary Gordon, C.M., B.A., (born 13 October 1947) is a Canadian educator, social entrepreneur, child advocate and parenting expert.

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Matthew Fox (priest)

Matthew Fox (born Timothy James Fox in 1940) is an American priest and theologian.

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Mononymous person

A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym.

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Oakville, Ontario

Oakville is a suburban town in southern Ontario, located in Halton Region on Lake Ontario halfway between Toronto and Hamilton, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area, one of the most densely-populated areas of Canada.

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Onnig Cavoukian

Onnig J. "Cavouk" Cavoukian (born 1945) is a Canadian-Armenian photographer.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Order of British Columbia

The Order of British Columbia is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Penelope Leach

Penelope Jane Leach (née Balchin; born November 19, 1937), is a British psychologist who researches and writes extensively on parenting issues from a child development perspective.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Quiet Time

Quiet Time is a term used to describe regular individual sessions of Christian spiritual activities, such as prayer, private meditation, worship of God or study of the Bible.

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Raffi

Raffi Cavoukian, (Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music.

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Raffi (novelist)

Hakob Melik Hakobian (Յակոբ Մելիք-Յակոբեան (classical); Հակոբ Մելիք-Հակոբյան (reformed); 1835 – 1888), better known by his pen name Raffi (Րաֆֆի; رافی), was an Armenian author and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Riane Eisler

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (born July 22, 1931) is a cultural historian, systems scientist, educator, attorney, speaker, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired scholars and social activists.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless Inc. is a Canadian wireless telephone company headquartered in Toronto, providing service nationally throughout Canada.

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Salt Spring Island

Salt Spring Island (also known as Saltspring Island) is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver Island.

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Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organisation that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.

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Suicide of Amanda Todd

On October 10, 2012, Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012), a 15-year-old Canadian girl, committed suicide at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Triple bottom line

Triple bottom line (or otherwise noted as TBL or 3BL) is an accounting framework with three parts: social, environmental (or ecological) and financial.

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Troubadour

A troubadour (trobador, archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Victoria

The University of Victoria (UVic) is a major research university located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vancouver Island University

Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and before that as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Vocal Performances

Vocal Performances was a 12" EP released by Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas in 1981.

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Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as WLU or simply Laurier) is a public university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Yonge Street

Yonge Street ("young") is a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffi

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