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"In August of this year, Rahul Goel will stand on the rocky cliffs of St. Lawrence, NL, watching a plume of fire rip across the sky.

If everything goes right, his company, NordSpace, will make history by orchestrating Canada’s first commercial rocket launch.

Canada was the fourth nation in the world to launch a satellite into space, helped pioneer aerospace engineering, and famously built the Canadarm. But for all its expertise, Canada has never launched a rocket from its own soil. Every satellite, every national security payload, every commercial launch is outsourced, mostly to the US."

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It's Rush -- they hardly need any introduction!

I'm moving back to live in Canada in 9 days! It's going to be a drive of 10-12 hours nonstop, anyone got music to pad out a playlist? Anything thematically fitting for moving back to Canada, doesn't need to be neccarily a Canadian musician, but bonus if it is. Looking to really amp myself up for finally living in Canada again.

Propagandhi was formed in 1988 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. They remain very active and are still consistently touring all across Canada.

Listening to just a few of the songs, you get a heavy dosage of the rage induced progressive stances of the band, associating strongly with left leaning and far left stances and prone to politicized speeches while on stage.

While the early songs of Propagandhi were more in line with skate/punk rock, nowadays the band as a heavy, well, heavy metal tune to them. Their strong progressive political theming has if anything amplified over the years, with their recent new album released May 2nd of this year featuring strong anti-fascist lyrics.

From the Kon Kan Wiki: "Kon Kan is a Canadian Synth-pop concieved and formed in 1988 by Barry Harris in Toronto, Ontario. Kon Kan were awarded a 1990 Juno for the song " I Beg Your Pardon" and nominated a 1991 Juno Award for the Single "Puss N' Boots/These Boots Are Made for Walkin''"

It seems that Kon Kan is somewhat active again, with new singles being created in 2023, and a recent tour in Brazil. Most new updates and activity seems to be on Kon Kan facebook page.

Stompin' Tom Connors is perhaps the most venerated Canadian country/folk songwriter and singer of all time -- and for good reason. His entire musical career was dedicated to singing and celebrating Canada and it's culture. Charles Thomas Connors long career netted him various accolades and honours in his name, although connors was famous for being humble and declining many of his honours.

There is much that can be said about Tom Connors, but his love for Canada was genuine and always first and foremost in his life.

I feel as though this song might give us insight to how he would feel with current US-Canada relations.

If you don't like Canada.... "Ya can better serve your country by living somewhere else".

Metric was formed in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, and by 2006 was quickly gaining in popularity, with various nominations by Canadian-centric awards such as Juno Awards and Polaris Music Prize. It wouldn't be until 2010 that they won their first Juno Award "Best Alternative Album of the Year" for their 2009 album Fantasies.

Black Sheep in particular was released on August 10th, 2010 on the Band's MySpace page. This song would be used as the soundtrack for the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, although the song is sung by Brie Larson portraying the character Envy Adams instead. Bryan Lee O'Malley said that Envy Adam's poses in the graphic novel were inspired by concert photos of Emily Haines (the lead singer of Metric).

Blacksheep is Metrics most listened to song on spotify, with 163 million listens on the Brie Larson vocal version (as used in the Scott Pilgrim movie), and 131 million listens to the band's original version.

Quotes are from the article. This is not the full article. Original article written by Thomas Laberge of The Canadian Press on the 28th of May, 2025.

"He says the legislation will relegate Canadian multiculturalism to the 'dustbin of history.'

'Multiculturalism no longer applies on Quebec soil, finally! (…) It’s a model that has always been harmful to Quebec,' Roberge declared Wednesday at the National Assembly.

According to him, under that model, the state takes it upon itself to allow newcomers to retain their culture and language of origin.

'That’s Canadian multiculturalism. We live alongside one another,' he explained.

His new law — inspired by interculturalism — aims to signal to immigrants that they are 'arriving in a state with its own model of integration' and that they must accept Quebec’s social contract, which is based on values such as democracy, the French language, gender equality, and secularism.'

'Otherwise, well, it’s not a good idea to come here,' Roberge said. "

Scott Pilgrim (1998) is perhaps one of the most over the top teenage angst punk bands I've ever heard -- perhaps precisely because the original band members were young teenagers when it was created. Plumtree was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1993 and disbanded in 2000.

Lynette Gillis and Carla Gillis still play for the rock band Overnight and occasionally Bells Blanging. Catriona Sturton lives in Ottawa and teaches harmonica inbetween making blues music.

Amanda Bidnall went on to become an accomplished academic in history and is now a freelance editor.

Nina Martin went on to become a professor of Geography with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The song is most well known for inspiring the famous graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim (2004-2010) by also fellow Canadian Bryan Lee O'Malley. The Scott Pilgrim franchise would end up taking up much more cultural real estate than the band or song itself.

Ben Caplan is a folk musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia (but born & raised in Hamilton, Ontario). His music seeks to redine what folk music can sound like in the modern world. He has won numerous awards for his music, and has been touring Canada and parts of the world since 2006.

From Elisapie's Inuktitut (2023) Album which was a nominee for the 2025 JUNO Album of the Year award. The album features Inukitut language covers of various classic songs that Elisapie described as having significant personal memory related to. She viewed this project as an opportunity for building bridges between Inuit and non-inuit cultures.

This song in particular is a cover of the famous (and my personal favourite) Leonard Cohen Song Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (1967).

Leonard Cohen needs no introduction. Perhaps one of the greatest Canadian artists and an pillar of immense pride for the city of Montreal.

Dance me to the End of Love (1984) is one of my favourite less popular (but still insanely popular) Leonard Cohen songs.