
The Canadian government has stripped Oscar-winning songwriter-singer Buffy Sainte-Marie of her Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours.
Sainte-Marie, 83, best known for her 1964 anti-war anthem “Universal Soldier” and for co-writing the Oscar-winning song “Up Where We Belong”, was awarded the Order of Canada in 1997 for her services to Indigenous Canadians.