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For the hell of it, here are a few more Canadian lists (as always, only for future reference).

Darryl Sterdan, Toronto Sun - 150 Best Canadian Songs of All Time (2017)
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/06/28/fr ... f-all-time
Sterdan's the music editor, I believe. In alphabetical order by decade.

Diana | Paul Anka
Little Darlin’ | The Diamonds
Sh-Boom | The Crew-Cuts
The Way I Walk | Jack Scott
Born to Be Wild | Steppenwolf
Both Sides Now | Joni Mitchell
Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot
Cousin Mary | Fludd
Four Strong Winds | Ian & Sylvia
Snowbird | Anne Murray
The Weight | The Band
Action | Streetheart
American Woman | The Guess Who
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft | Klaatu
Doin’ it Right | Powder Blues Band
Echo Beach | Martha & the Muffins
The First Cut is the Deepest | Keith Hampshire
Flip, Flop & Fly | Downchild Blues Band
Hangover | Max Webster
The Hockey Song | Stompin’ Tom Connors
Hot Child in the City | Nick Gilder
I Just Wanna Stop | Gino Vannelli
Keep the Dogs Away | Thor
Last Song | Edward Bear
Lay it On the Line | Triumph
(Make Me Do) Anything You Want | A Foot in Coldwater
Oh, What a Feeling | Crowbar
Painted Ladies | Ian Thomas
Phasors on Stun | FM
Raise a Little Hell | Trooper
Rock Me Gently | Andy Kim
Roxy Roller | Sweeney Todd
Seasons in the Sun | Terry Jacks
Signs | Five Man Electrical Band
Some Sing Some Dance | Michel Pagliaro
Sometimes When We Touch | Dan Hill
Spaceship Superstar | Prism
Stand Tall | Burton Cummings
Sunny Days | Lighthouse
Sweet City Woman | Stampeders
Sweet Thing | Goddo
Takin’ Care of Business | Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Which Way You Goin' Billy? | The Poppy Family
Whispering Rain | Murray McLauchlan
You Could Have Been a Lady | April Wine
A Criminal Mind | Gowan
The Ballad of Wendel Clark Parts 1 & 2 | The Rheostatics
Black Velvet | Alannah Myles
Blow at High Dough | Tragically Hip
Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) | Glass Tiger
Don’t It Make Ya Feel | Headpins
Eyes of a Stranger | Payola$
Fantasy | Aldo Nova
Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen
High School Confidential | Rough Trade
If I Had a Rocket Launcher | Bruce Cockburn
I’m An Adult Now | The Pursuit of Happiness
Let’s Shake | Teenage Head
Let Your Backbone Slide | Maestro Fresh Wes
Lunatic Fringe | Red Rider
Metal on Metal | Anvil
New Girl Now | Honeymoon Suite
Northwest Passage | Stan Rogers
Not in Love | Platinum Blonde
Nova Heart | The Spoons
One Day in Your Life | 54•40
On the Loose | Saga
War | D.O.A.
Rise Up | Parachute Club
Rockin’ in the Free World | Neil Young
Rock You | Helix
Safety Dance | Men Without Hats
See the Light | Jeff Healey Band
Something to Live For | Barney Bentall & Legendary Hearts
Summer of ’69 | Bryan Adams
Sunglasses At Night | Corey Hart
Sweet Jane | Cowboy Junkies
Tears are Not Enough | Northern Lights
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide | The Kings
Tom Sawyer | Rush
Too Bad | Doug & the Slugs
Try | Blue Rodeo
Up Where We Belong | Buffy Sainte-Marie
Whatcha Do to My Body | Lee Aaron
Working for the Weekend | Loverboy
Your Daddy Don’t Know | Toronto
Building a Mystery | Sarah McLachlan
Clumsy | Our Lady Peace
Constant Craving | k.d. lang
Drinking in L.A. | Bran Van 3000
The Great White North | Bob and Doug McKenzie
Having an Average Weekend | Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Heaven Coming Down | The Tea Party
Hello Time Bomb | Matthew Good
Informer | Snow
Insensitive | Jann Arden
Just Came Back | Colin James
Life is a Highway | Tom Cochrane
Man! I Feel Like a Woman | Shania Twain
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm | Crash Test Dummies
The Mummer’s Dance | Loreena McKennitt
My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style | Dream Warriors
My Heart Will Go On | Celine Dion
Northern Touch | Rascalz feat. Kardinal Offishall, Thrust, Choclair, Checkmate
One Week | Barenaked Ladies
Ordinary Day | Great Big Sea
She Ain’t Pretty | The Northern Pikes
She’s So High | Tal Bachman
Sleepy Maggie | Ashley MacIsaac
Steal My Sunshine | Len
You Oughta Know | Alanis Morissette
The Canadian Dream | Sam Roberts
Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk | Rufus Wainwright
Complicated | Avril Lavigne
Crabbuckit | k-os
Haven’t Met You Yet | Michael Bublé
Help I’m Alive | Metric
Hockey Skates | Kathleen Edwards
How You Remind Me | Nickelback
Hurtin’ Albertan | Corb Lund
I Love Myself Today | Bif Naked
I’m Like a Bird | Nelly Furtado
Jealous of Your Cigarette | Hawksley Workman
Keep the Car Running | Arcade Fire
Letter from an Occupant | New Pornographers
O Canada | Big Sugar
Oh … Canada | Classified
1234 | Feist
On My Own | Hedley
Paralyzer | Finger Eleven
The Rest of My Life | Sloan
7/4 Shoreline | Broken Social Scene
Take a Message | Remy Shand
Try Honesty | Billy Talent
Walking With a Ghost | Tegan & Sara
Wavin’ Flag | K’Naan
Whatever It Takes | Ron Sexsmith
Wicked and Weird | Buck 65
Baby | Justin Bieber
Call Me Maybe | Carly Rae Jepsen
Can’t Feel My Face | The Weeknd
Electric Pow Wow Drum | A Tribe Called Red
Fire it Up | Johnny Reid
Fragile Bird | City & Colour
Hideaway | Keisza
Highway Of Heroes | The Trews
Hotline Bling | Drake
I Don’t Know | The Sheepdogs
Stitches | Shawn Mendes
Up We Go | Lights

Global News - 50 Legendary Canadian Songs (2017)
http://globalnews.ca/news/3539103/canad ... anada-day/
In no particular order.
1. Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
2. The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
3. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
4. Anne Murray - Snowbird
5. k.d. lang - Constant Craving
6. Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman
7. Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
8. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business
9. Terry Bush - Maybe Tomorrow (The Littlest Hobo Theme)
10. The Guess Who - Running Back to Saskatoon
11. Rush - Tom Sawyer
12. Great Big Sea - When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)
13. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
14. Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
15. Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1000000
16. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier
17. Trooper - Raise a Little Hell
18. Drake - Started from the Bottom
19. Kardinal Offishall - BaKardi Slang
20. Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
21. Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)
22. The Zit Remedy - Everybody Wants Something
23. Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
24. A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow Drum
25. Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
26. Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head
27. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
28. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
29. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
30. Jann Arden - Good Mother
31. Sarah MacLachlan - I Will Remember You
32. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
33. Weakerthans - One Great City
34. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
35. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
36. Sloan - Money City Maniacs
37. Broken Social Scene - It's All Gonna Break
38. Stompin' Tom Connors - The Hockey Song
39. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
40. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
41. The Band - The Weight
42. Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
43. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
44. Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
45. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
46. Justin Bieber - Sorry
47. Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
48. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy
49. The Tea Party - Fire in the Head
50. I Mother Earth - One More Astronaut
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand - Sir Duke (1976)
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No Grimes on either list, but one of them manages to make room for "Baby"!? What is up with these Canooks?
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Sweepstakes Ron wrote:No Grimes on either list, but one of them manages to make room for "Baby"!? What is up with these Canooks?
Ca-schnooks is more like it - not happy with the presence of Shawn Mendes either.
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