Forget the Grammys ever happened, because the annual Juno awards are fast approaching. On March 30th, Canadian artists will travel to Winnipeg in the hopes of receiving the treasured curved glass statuette which signifies their artistic dominance over their home-country's population of 35 million and beyond. The old joke was that the award was called the Juno because you found yourself watching TV and asking "juno who that is up there?" but in recent years Canada has been popping musically — you couldn't get away from us if you tried. It wouldn't be a misnomer to say that Canada is currently contributing more to the global zeitgeist than we ever have in our short 147 year history of being a country. We have an all-star representative from every major genre in Drake, Justin Bieber, Arcade Fire and Deadmau5.
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