Tragically Hip's Gord Downie Dead at 53

Terribly sad day.

It's been a sad week for Canada having lost John Dunsworth on Monday.

Here's one of my favourites -- Gord Downie performing a dramatization of an Al Purdy poem, with a dub of Al Purdy reading, himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKeczB3wrg

Downie was an advocate of Canadian arts & letters, and naturally, a poet himself. The CBC Obituary is a good read and does him better justice than I can.