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The Tragically Hip show last night was a historic moment for Canada.  With the band’s final show underway in Kingston, Ontario, thousands turned up and tuned in to watch them.  Fan tributes flooded social media and it was a moment that seemed to unify Canadians as we took in The Hip’s electrifying final performance on the Man Machine Poem tour.

 

The tour has been an emotional one for fans (and surely the band as well) after Downie’s devastating terminal brain cancer diagnoses announced earlier this year.

 

And yet, for the complexity of emotions this performance tapped into, it seems to be summed up in one image.

 

The Huffington Post reports “Toronto city council Kristyn Wong-Tam tweeted [this] out Saturday night following the CBC broadcast of the band’s final concert in Kingston, Ont.”.  Its point hits home.

 

 

Nailed it.