There is also the great WAX POETS, who are from Calgary, AB.
They released an outstanding album of Figgs/Joe Jackson/Urge Overkill brand of Power Pop in 2008.

--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Will Harris" <NonStopPop@...> wrote:
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> I'm guessing most of you probably aren't familiar with the band Waxing
> Poetics, who had some regional success on the east coast in the late '80s
> and early '90s, but the band's doing a reunion show on Dec. 30th, so I
> pitched an oral-history piece on their career to the local paper. What a
> surprise: I got more material than would fit in print, so I took to my site
> and offered up an unexpurgated version.  
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> http://newsreviewsinterviews.com/interviews/waxing-poetics-the-oral-history/
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> 
> Even if you don't know the band, I think anyone who's a fan of the
> oral-history format will enjoy reading it, so I thought I'd share. It was
> definitely a labor-of-love kind of thing.
>