When I woke up to see the news that Gord Downie had passed, it hit me like a bag of bricks. We all knew it was coming, but I don't think anybody was quite ready for it. Downie was a living soundtrack, ...

Instead, it was the way frontman Gord Downie was in some ways a historian as much as a rock star. The singer and lyricist was fascinated by the decidedly Canadian stories of figures like doomed ...