Rank | 1996 | 2000 | 2005 |
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1 | The Demics, "New York City" | The Guess Who, "American Woman" | The Guess Who, "American Woman" |
2 | Sloan, "Underwhelmed" | Sloan, "Underwhelmed" | Sloan, "Underwhelmed" |
3 | The Guess Who, "American Woman" | Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind" | Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done" |
4 | The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm an Adult Now" | Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69" | Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" |
5 | Martha and the Muffins, "Echo Beach" | Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" | Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69" |
6 | Bachman–Turner Overdrive, "Takin' Care of Business" | The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm An Adult Now" | Rush, "Tom Sawyer" |
7 | Blue Rodeo, "Try" | The Tragically Hip, "New Orleans Is Sinking" | The Band, "The Weight" |
8 | Treble Charger, "Red" | The Diodes, "Tired of Waking Up Tired" | Neil Young, "Cortez the Killer" |
9 | Rush, "Tom Sawyer" | The Demics, "New York City" | Neil Young, "Heart of Gold" |
10 | Slow, "Have Not Been the Same" | Neil Young, "Cinnamon Girl" | Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah" |
11 | Neil Young, "Cinnamon Girl" | Maestro Fresh Wes, "Let Your Backbone Slide" | Neil Young, "Rockin' in the Free World" |
12 | The Tragically Hip, "New Orleans Is Sinking" | Sloan, "Money City Maniacs" | Maestro Fresh Wes, "Let Your Backbone Slide" |
13 | Neil Young, "Rockin' in the Free World" | Slow, "Have Not Been the Same" | Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind" |
14 | The Band, "The Weight" | Blue Rodeo, "Try" | The Tragically Hip, "New Orleans Is Sinking" |
15 | Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind" | Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done" | Payola$, "Eyes of a Stranger" |
16 | Payola$, "Eyes of a Stranger" | Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" | Neil Young, "Cinnamon Girl" |
17 | The Diodes, "Tired of Waking Up Tired" | Rush, "Tom Sawyer" | Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You" |
18 | k. d. lang, "Constant Craving" | Rough Trade, "High School Confidential" | Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne" |
19 | Men Without Hats, "The Safety Dance" | Neil Young, "Rockin' in the Free World" | The Weakerthans, "Left and Leaving" |
20 | Skinny Puppy, "Dig It" | Martha and the Muffins, "Echo Beach" | Sloan, "Coax Me" |
21 | Young Canadians, "Hawaii" | Sloan, "Coax Me" | The Band, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" |
22 | Rough Trade, "High School Confidential" | Trooper, "Raise a Little Hell" | Blue Rodeo, "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" |
23 | Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" | The Tragically Hip, "At the Hundredth Meridian" | Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat" |
24 | Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69" | The Tragically Hip, "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" | Rush, "Closer to the Heart" |
25 | Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne" | Rheostatics, "Record Body Count" | Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Hockey Song" |
26 | Doughboys, "Shine" | Len, "Steal My Sunshine" | Neil Young, "Down by the River" |
27 | Five Man Electrical Band, "Signs" | The Tragically Hip, "Grace, Too" | Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" |
28 | Ian and Sylvia, "Four Strong Winds" | 54-40, "One Gun" | Bachman–Turner Overdrive, "Takin' Care of Business" |
29 | Sloan, "Coax Me" | Bachman–Turner Overdrive, "Takin' Care of Business" | The Guess Who, "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" |
30 | Neil Young, "Heart of Gold" | Rufus Wainwright, "April Fool's" | Sloan, "Snowsuit Sound" |
31 | A Foot in Coldwater, "Make Me Do (Anything You Want)" | Payola$, "Eyes of a Stranger" | Treble Charger, "Red" |
32 | Anne Murray, "Snowbird" | Sweeney Todd, "Roxy Roller" | Bruce Cockburn, "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" |
33 | Crowbar, "Oh, What a Feeling" | Spirit of the West, "Political" | k-os, "The Man I Used to Be" |
34 | The Viletones, "Screaming Fist" | Anne Murray, "Snowbird" | The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm an Adult Now" |
35 | 54-40, "I Go Blind" | The Tragically Hip, "Ahead by a Century" | Sloan, "The Good in Everyone" |
36 | Terry Jacks, "Seasons in the Sun" | Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown" | Hayden, "Bad As They Seem" |
37 | Spirit of the West, "Political" | Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, "Having an Average Weekend" | Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" |
38 | The Haunted, "1-2-5" | Doughboys, "Shine" | Neil Young, "Cowgirl in the Sand" |
39 | The Ugly Ducklings, "Nothin'" | Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne" | Rush, "Limelight" |
40 | Slow, "I Broke the Circle" | Sarah McLachlan, "Vox" | Blue Rodeo, "Five Days in May" |
41 | Andy Kim, "Rock Me Gently" | 54-40, "Baby Ran" | Sloan, "Everything You've Done Wrong" |
42 | The Stampeders, "Sweet City Woman" | Blue Rodeo, "Diamond Mine" | Blue Rodeo, "Try" |
43 | Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown" | The Grapes of Wrath, "All the Things I Wasn't" | The Guess Who, "These Eyes" |
44 | Tom Cochrane, "Life Is a Highway" | Leonard Cohen, "So Long Marianne" | Rheostatics, "Horses" |
45 | The Grapes of Wrath, "All the Things I Wasn't" | Neil Young, "Heart of Gold" | Alexisonfire, "Accidents" |
46 | The Guess Who, "These Eyes" | Spoons, "Nova Heart" | The New Pornographers, "Mass Romantic" |
47 | Cowboy Junkies, "Sweet Jane" | Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You" | Sam Roberts, "Hard Road" |
48 | Sweeney Todd, "Roxy Roller" | Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Hockey Song" | Neil Young, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" |
49 | Sarah McLachlan, "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" | The Tragically Hip, "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" | Rufus Wainwright, "April Fool's" |
50 | Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" | The Ugly Ducklings, "Nothin'" | The Ugly Ducklings, "Nothin'" |