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Canadianism Podcast | S2 E7 | Quebec Is About to Show Canada What’s Wrong With Our Voting System
Canada’s Song of the Summer Is 10 Years Old. What the Hell Is Going On With Music? Apparently, one of the biggest songs of summer 2026 in Canada needed a decade to get here. TikTok has named Mac Miller’s “Cinderella,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, its No. 1 Song of the Summer in Canada. There is just one small detail: the song came out in 2016. Ten years ago. “Cinderella” appeared […]
What’s On This Week: Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa Labour Day week is doing its best to make sure nobody stays home. From Rush and Iron Maiden in Montreal to Chris Stapleton, TLC and Pitbull in Toronto, plus a five-day festival just across the river from Ottawa, there’s a lot happening between Monday, August 31 and Sunday, September 6. Toronto Monday, August 31 Squeeze, with Adam Ant and Haircut 100 — […]
Dolly Parton, 1946–2026: The Voice, the Wit and the Heart Behind an American Original Dolly Parton, the country music giant whose songs, humour and generosity made her one of the rare entertainers almost everyone seemed to like, has died at 80. Dolly Parton spent most of her life looking like someone who had arrived from somewhere slightly more colourful than the rest of us. The hair was enormous. The clothes […]
🍔 THE CANADIANIST FOOD FIGHT: CALLING ALL MUSIC CREATORS 🍕 We put out a call for food-themed songs and the response gave us an idea. Let's make a show out of this. The Canadianist Radio Network is putting together a one-hour special celebrating independent music creators and the wonderfully strange, funny, clever and occasionally serious things that happen when you tell musicians to write about food. So here's the challenge: […]
Frank Beard, the Quiet Engine Behind ZZ Top, Dies at 77 For more than half a century, Beard sat behind Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill and supplied the groove that made ZZ Top unmistakable. He died Monday at his Texas ranch at the age of 77. There was always a wonderful little joke built into ZZ Top. The two guys with the enormous beards were Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. […]
When Did Concerts Get So Damn Perfect? The sound is better. The lights are better. The shows are safer. So why does it sometimes feel like we lost something along the way? I've been watching clips of Rush's current tour with Anika Nilles, and they sound great. Really great, actually. Considering we're talking about musicians whose history stretches back more than 50 years, it's remarkable. The playing is there, the […]
10 Canadian Songs Everyone Here Knows, But Americans Probably Don't There was once an entire layer of Canadian music that could be enormous north of the border and practically invisible a few hours south. If you grew up here, some of these songs weren't simply hits. They were part of the wallpaper. There's a funny thing that happens when Canadians talk about music with Americans. You mention a song you […]
