The song earned Fiona a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The second single, "It Kills Me", became her breakout song on the Billboard Hot 100 where it cracked the Top 50, along with hitting #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The debut single "Give It to Me Right" was released to radio stations on February 28, 2009, and peaked at #20 on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 and #41 on the UK Singles Chart. She worked on the album with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. Her debut album The Bridge was released in the summer of 2009. Fiona was featured on Reggae Gold 2008 with the Supa Dups-produced "Somebody Come Get Me". Her father was a guitarist in a band and would allow her to sit on the stage when she was younger as he practiced, and remembers her mother playing music at home everything from The Ronettes to Whitney Houston. Living in a music filled household, Fiona says she always knew music was her passion. She was born to Guyanese immigrant parents (mixed with black, Indian, and Portuguese ethnicities) and grew up in the inner city of Toronto. "We find that appalling," she said, calling it an "inconsistent position" that suggests "these people are not truly interested in their own exercise of freedoms, but are perhaps more so interested in taking freedoms away from others.Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983) is a Grammy winning Canadian R&B singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. She disputes the argument the availability of some challenged books violates a parent's right to choose what a child reads. Because if you take away these books or any books that a group targets - they say are wrong or illegal or pornographic or whatever they want to call it - they're taking someone else's right to access away." 'Appalling' logic: library groupĪt their core, the challenges at the South Central Regional Library are about a much bigger issue: intellectual freedom, or the right to access information from different perspectives without being restricted, said Melanie Sucha, president of the Manitoba Library Association, which advocates for libraries in the province. ![]() "As a public library, our obligation to our community and our patrons is to provide something for everyone," said Ching. And while it would "make life easier for all of us" to meet the demands to remove them, it's out of the question, she said. Debate over book bans in classrooms highlights limitations of school trustees' roleĬhing said the titles in question are widely published, award-winning books.The March 20 letter requested a response by later this month. 'Bombard' councils on issue: delegation memberīut in the city of Winkler, Mayor Henry Siemens asked the library's board in a letter to adjust its policies to reconsider how books "that deal with issues around children and sex" are displayed, after council members became "alarmed at the graphic sexual act depictions and descriptions" in some of them. ![]() ![]() The Municipality of Pembina, which includes the community of Manitou, also declined to defund the library, citing its value for residents. The Town of Altona rejected the delegation's request, saying council was confident the library took the initial book challenges seriously. ![]() (Jenn Allen/CBC)ĭelegations also started presenting at council meetings across the seven municipalities that fund the library's branches in Altona, Manitou, Miami, Morden and Winkler, requesting they withhold that funding until the library reviews its policies around children's books containing what presenters described as sexually explicit materials and child pornography.Ĭhing said the library has already reviewed its policies - and there's no need for changes. Chapter 9 of It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health teaches readers about the changes their bodies will go through as they get older.
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