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Blue Rodeo’s Michael Boguski and friends release song for Secret Path Week

Michael Boguski of Blue Rodeo is joining this year’s Secret Path Week efforts to help move Canadians toward healing and

Come Friday, Tragically Hip fans will get to hear Away is Mine, the posthumous album from Gord Downie recorded over

Hard to believe that we’re in mid-October already, but Secret Path Week is just around the corner. Started in 2017,

In July 2017, just months before he died, Gord Downie recorded ten songs at the Tragically Hip’s Batthouse Studios. There

The battle between Star Wars and Star Trek has been taken to a whole new level. Now let’s concentrate on

Before Gord Downie died of glioblastoma, a rare and incurable brain disease, on October 17, 2017, he was a man

After a period of inactivity, the Gord Downie Twitter account has been active over the last few days. This shot

It was on a five-hour drive from the Quebec-Ontario border that Twin Flames really listened, deeply, to The Tragically Hip’s

Every day across Canada, 27 people receive news that they have a brain tumour. Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada holds

It was just about four years ago that Tragically Hip fans woke up to the news that Gord Downie was

Gord Downie would’ve celebrated his 56th birthday on February 6. As has become tradition, Buffalo’s Strictly Hip is throwing a

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver