So here’s to having a Thursday off in the middle of the week folks! Hope you are enjoying it. I envy you bastards who are able to make a long weekend of it all. Kudos to you.

We have so much in this country to be grateful for and are truly fortunate.

Take a few minutes to reflect on some of your favourite Canadian artists who are featured on Sirius Radio regularly. Don’t care what channels and what kind of music you prefer. You can find lots of Canadian content on the dial, and Canadian contributions from Canadian radio talent.

Worth mentioning on these pages are a few personal favourites such as Rush, whose music we regularly hear on Sirius 19 The Boneyard and Sirius 15 Classic Rewind. Also remember to head on up to the great channel known as The Iceberg for some great Adult Oriented Rock and Alternative Music. I just happened to flip to it hearing The Parachute Club’s classic one hit-wonder “Rise Up”. I forgot that song was even Canadian in the first place.

We are lucky enough to be living in an age where there is a tremendous surge in original new talent from this country, while the older groups and artists are releasing new material that is of critical and commercial success. So much great Canadian talent out there, it will surprise you and everyone else if they just listen.

I renew my continued objection to the CRTC interfering with Sirius Canada and XM Canada by not allowing people to subscribe to the best of series for each set of stations. Maybe they could give that to us as a Canada day gift….