From the Mockers to Andrew Fagan, who married a young lassie called Karen Hay. Hay is a farmland crop, in which I imagine straw is related (both forming the staple ingredient of various very boring breakfast cereals)
From Straw you can reach The Strawpeople and the single Taller than God... which I admit is as equally as boring as the above high fibre diet, however it is related to Murder on Manner Street.
(Or is it wheat that is in cereals?) Whatever....
Dont worry about lack of talent in Canada, you have always got the Barenaked Ladies and Bryan Adams!!!!
I shouldnt laugh, I am from Scotland, who produced the Proclaimers.