That's very sad to hear, even though we knew it was coming with Gord. Poor guy. He was still under 55.
I wonder if the movie "One Week" is similar to the cancer-themed Michael Keaton vehicle "My Life"?:
As for the following, it is a political statement regarding Canada's response to Gord's bout with cancer and the last concert he held. If you don't like to see leftists and liberals and their arrogance taken down a shade, please stop reading now. I just couldn't stand the virtue-signalling regarding Gord and his last concert, so read on, if you hate that type of thing as much as I do:
I remember when The Tragically Hip concert took place in 2016, so many Canadians were using it to espouse Canadiana such as "This concert is so uniquely Canadian. Representing the beauty, diversity, tolerance, and inclusion that represents what Canada really is." Even Justin Trudeau made a similar statement.
Or so he said. I never watched it because I thought it was silly that with 32,000 children dying of malnutrition daily [1996 statistic, and that figure may have skyrocketed since then], that it made no sense to celebrate the life of one man who I didn't know just because he happened to be Canadian.
On top of that, at his concert, after it was stated over and over and "diverse" and "inclusive" Canada is, that our First Nations [Native North Americans of Canada] are being brutally oppressed and blah, blah, blah. Weird that if Canada is so "tolerant" and whatever, that the group of people who has been here THE LONGEST has not yet been integrated by Canadians. First Nations people are virtually the ONLY non-White minority that Canada ever had prior to the 2000s, and they weren't integrated in the slightest bit! Yet Canadians arrogantly moan on about how "tolerant" we are, when the group that has been here for centuries isn't remotely integrated despite having the longest period of time to do that?
Literally the ONLY test Canada has had in terms of racial integration has been First Nations people and Canada failed that test massively. Canada does NOT deserve its reputation for "diversity" and "inclusion", because we are geographically the largest White-majority nation ON THE PLANET. We have the least amount of diversity of virtually any White nation - and certainly the least of the resource-rich colonial states of the former British Empire, and the ONLY - yes, ONLY - opportunity Canada had to prove how good it was at integration of other people failed completely.
I seriously can't stand people who make comments about Canada being so diverse and all this horseshit, when we DON'T HAVE DIVERSITY. The only diversity we have outside of First Nations people is with ASIANS. And where records exist, Asians are doing at least as well in the USA, and our Black and Hispanic tiny minority population is doing the same if not WORSE than American Blacks and American Hispanics.
I had ONE friend who said that Gord's performance indicated to him that he wasn't ever really a stage artist, and clearly more of a recording artist - as something was lost when he was on the stage. One more friend made the comment that they weren't that impressed with the concert.
I swear, the entire thing was one massive form of virtue-signalling. It's so weird to me that left-leaning people just NEED to constantly signal how great they are to the entire planet. Probably because they know it is the opposite of the truth in reality. Although I don't know why Justin Trudeau does it - he seems like a nice guy.
Why I feel the need to signal stuff like, for example, my wealth is because all my life, my mother has denied how successful I am to people in order to brag to her friends who she deserves the credit for my success.
It has resulted in a complex that makes me insist to people how much money I have. Plus the sheer number of lawsuit threats I got from running my bodybuilding website - mostly copyright in origin - made me need to make it clear that I can afford legal defense if need be. People are less prone to follow up on a lawsuit if they know you will fight back.
So who knows - maybe there is some valid reason why leftists and liberals virtue-signal nonstop, I just don't know what it is. Incidentally, I don't consider your post to be en example of virtue-signalling, Nelson. In fact, just the opposite - you are just a broker of real news. This was also the first source I found regarding the death of Gord, so thank you for posting it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he is a bad guy or anything, I just hated the arrogant Canadian reaction to his battle with cancer and the last concert that he held.
