With Canada under serious threats from the orange pedophile in the White House, and this being one of our few SOCAN reporting weeks - wherein songwriters can claim their just rewards for creating the wonderful music we get to play on CiTR - I chose to feature the vast majority of this week's selections from Canadian songwriters and tunesmiths. The only exceptions were a sad RIP to legendary Irish uillean piper Paddy Keenan, and the local debut of a fabulous Spanish / Scottish fiddle duo. Oh, and a hot new single from my favourite Senegalese band.