canadian post punk/electro/no wave

35% my campus and community friend. What station?
The Diodes were first generation punk, one of them helped Sid pick out a certain knife in NYC or am I confusing them with The Demics again.

North of America are incredible, ask my pal Dennis, drummer for Sick Lipstick or inquire at Matlock Records. Smack Da Pony was mentioned elsewhere today.
Use the search function at the bottom of the page and check out the CANCON and 100 can pop classic threads here.

I'd also encourage you to check your library for The Pointed Sticks ("Part of The Noise" is criminally overlooked), the insane but talented Art Bergman (leader of The Young Canadians, Posioned, The K Tels and Los Populeros), Hanged Up, Deep Dark United (a little more improv), The Creeping Nobodies and predesscor Partsunknow, Dinner Is Ruined, Lullabye Orchestra, Stink Mitt, Leaderhosen Lucie, Test Tone Channel, King Cobb Steelie, Picastro.

As for Post punk, check out the book Have Not Been The Same on ECW Press (available at most Chapters). For more electronic work try checking up on Ambient Ping night in TO and for the other style try looking at the lineup for Wavelength in Toronto.

since your mentioning old historical stuff...'snot exactly my favourite genre, but weren't there the dave howard singers, jolly tambourine man, various bands on YUL records. This is sort of mid 80s. Like I say, not my favourite era in candian music. I seem to remember a lot of bands just cutting their hair however the british did. And maybe making some music, too, if they could be bothered. Play Deja Voodoo, instead. For one thing, they're great (maybe the inspiration for the white stripes?) and for another, all their songs are really really short, so you can pump up the cancon without wasting too much actual airtime....old canadian community radio dj trick.

The Diodes were poppy but early none the less. Signed to CBS Canada in 77, first single 'Red Rubber Ball' was either late 77 or early 78 as it peaked at the Canadian charts at #96.

I'd be amazed if any campus radio station could keep Simply Saucer from being stolen as an lp over the last 25 years or so. When did that album come out in the first place?

See also, Swinghammer maybe, SianSpheric, if you're gonna take HHH you might as well play Tangiers, and if you're gonna play Tangiers you can't not play the Deadly Snakes, whose new album, Ode To Joy is so goddamn good.
Also, Bluebeard, who were friends of mine. I'm sure the used CD joint nearest your campus has a copy of their really really good 1997 album Selling Point.

I find it absolutely ridiculous how the Canadian public is so precious about Canadian music, yet Canadian TV and movies are openly mocked and joked about.

IKO - 83

I don't know many who have heard this, but it is an astonishing piece of minimal wave-electro-synth record with slight touches of disco. A French- Canadian version of Kraftwerk is an apt description. It is really something else, highly recommended for anyone who loves early John Foxx, Tube Way Army, Grauzone, etc.

Bleu nuit's excellent Le jardin des mémoires might actually be more reminiscent of Women than Preoccupations/Viet Cong are

https://bleunuitmtl.bandcamp.com/releases

Gonna check it out on the basis of their moniker alone lol.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleu_Nuit

my favorite song is actually the instrumental closing track which is total soundtrack bait