From Wikipedia:
The Ennis Sisters, Maureen, Karen and Teresa, started playing music at a young age, encouraged by their father John and their mother Ceilie. The trio released their first album, Red is the Rose, on June 25, 1997. The album sold 15,000 copies within 18 months of release, and has gone on to sell more than 40,000 units. By the end of the year, the album was named Best Folk Album by the Music Industry Association of Newfoundland & Labrador (MIA). The following year, they received Female Artists of the Year and Group of the Year awards from the MIA.
The Ennis Sisters released their second album, Christmas on Ennis Road, in 1998. The album also landed the girls their own Christmas special on CBC, An Ennis Road Christmas. In 1999, Maclean's magazine named the trio one of the Top 100 young Canadians to watch.
They returned to the studio to record their third album, Three, in 2000. The same year, they received an East Coast Music Association (ECMA) award for Album of the Year. The album was also named Album of the Year by the MIA. In the spring of 2000, the group signed with Natalie MacMaster's manager Andre Bourgeois. The group worked with Bourgeois from 2000 until late 2003. At the 2001 ECMA Awards in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, held on February 11, the girls were named Roots/Traditional Group of the Year. That same weekend, The Ennis Sisters received a two-album record deal from Warner Music Canada. They began recording their major label debut with producer Tim Thorney at Great Big Music Studios.
The Ennis Sisters' fourth album, simply titled The Ennis Sisters, was released on October 9, 2001. The first single, "It's Not About You," reached the top 5 on Canadian Country Radio, and the top 10 on Canadian adult contemporary radio. The video was played on both MuchMoreMusic and CMT in Canada. In 2002, Maureen won the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) award for top grossing Canadian Country Song of the Year for the album's second single, "I'd Never Walk Away." That same year, the Ennis' won a Juno Award for Best New Country Artist/Group. They were once again named Group of the Year at the 2002 ECMA Awards.
In August 2002, they signed a distribution deal with Rounder Records to re-release their latest album in the United States. The album, now titled It's Not About You, was released on April 15, 2003. Meanwhile, they released their fifth album in Canada, Can't Be the Same, on November 18, 2003. That 2003 release went on to win the 2004 ECMA Award for Best Roots/Traditional Group Recording.
The Ennis Sisters released the album, Be Here for a While, in 2007. Youngest Ennis sister, Teresa Ennis, plans release of new recording, 'Space', late in summer 2007. The project is not intended to be a departure from the group but a side project recorded during down time between work with the group.
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Emm Gryner (born 8 June 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian-Filipino singer, songwriter, recording artist, and author. She has released 20 albums as a solo performer, and has collaborated with artists including David Bowie and Chris Hadfield.
Gryner's childhood was spent in Forest, Ontario. She started to learn piano at age 4, picked up bass around age 14, and later took up guitar as well.
Gryner attended North Lambton Secondary School in Forest, Ontario. Following high school, she graduated from Fanshawe College's Music Industry Arts program in 1995.
Gryner started her music career in Toronto, where her original song "Wisdom Bus" won a nationwide songwriting contest sponsored by Standard Broadcasting. With the prize money, she recorded an album called The Original Leap Year and released it on her own Dead Daisy Records. The album attracted the attention of Mercury Records, who signed Gryner to a recording contract.
Gryner's first release on Mercury was 1998's Public, a Britpop-inspired album that yielded a Canadian hit called "Summerlong." She was nominated for the Best New Solo Artist Juno Award in 1999.
Emily Savitri Haines (born 25 January 1974) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has performed under her own name and as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. Haines possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano.
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Emilie-Claire Barlow (born 6 June 1976) is a Canadian singer, arranger, record producer, and voice actress. She has released several albums on her label, Empress Music Group, and has voiced characters for animated television series. She performs in English, French, and Portuguese.
Barlow's first album, Sings, was released in 1998. She has received seven nominations for Canada's Juno Awards with her album Seule ce soir winning for best Jazz Vocal Recording in 2013 and Clear Day winning the same award in 2016. Seule ce soir also won Album of the Year – Jazz Interpretation at the 2013 ADISQ Awards. Barlow was also nominated for the Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award at the 2016 Juno Awards. Barlow was named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2008 National Jazz Awards. She has named as influences Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, and Stevie Wonder.
Barlow has voiced various characters for animated television series, including Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Courtney, Laurie and Ellody in the Total Drama series, Chrissy in 6teen, Mrs. Ridgemount in Stoked, Bunny in Almost Naked Animals and Theresa Falcone (MacDougall) in Fugget About It.
Born in Toronto to parents who were professional musicians, Barlow grew up in recording studios and by age seven had begun a career singing television and radio commercials.
She was encouraged by her parents to sing and study several instruments including piano, cello, clarinet, and violin. Barlow studied voice at the Etobicoke School of Arts and music theory and arranging at Humber College.
Barlow's grandfathers were ventriloquist Cy Leonard and actor Bob Homme (who played The Friendly Giant). Her father is award-winning jazz drummer Brian Barlow (aka Brian Leonard). Her mother, Judy Tate, is a composer, arranger and singer. Her uncle was Richard Homme, a Canadian jazz bassist who died 6 May 2011.
I am not going to even pretend to be an expert in the field of finance and economics. In fact Economics 101 at Western a few years back was nearly the death of my brain cells. I passed but oh what a struggle it was.
So here is what I do understand. According to Metro every year there is a period of price freeze between grocery stores and suppliers from Thanksgiving to the end of January. It isn't a rule. But it is what happens.
Unless you are living on what you grew, preserved or hunted, you will have had the opportunity to find the prices in stores climbing weekly. At least it feels that way. Stats Canada says grocery prices have climbed 10.8% since last year, the fastest pace in over 40 years.
Loblaws decided to do something to help the consumer out by instituting a price freeze between the stores and customers . . . but only on no name products. I'm all right with that. I use a lot of no name products already and don't mind being steered to more packages wrapped in yellow . . . as long as the price is cheap. Apparently no name products actually have a higher profit margin than name brand products so Loblaws doesn't mind price freezing one little bit.
Many Canadians and politicians are calling this a PR stunt in response to accusations of profiteering.
If I have any of this wrong or someone would like to improve upon my explanations, I would love to hear from you.
