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The A section of the Kingston Whig Standard newspaper that is dated Tuesday, September 20, 2016. a – The front page of the newspaper as well as pages A5 and A6. On the front page of the newspaper is the heading “Cancer fund benefits” with a coloured photograph of the live screening of The Tragically Hip concert that happened in Kingston, Ontario on August 20th, 2016. Kingston City Hall is in the background of the photograph with a crowd of people standing in Springer Market Square in the fore and mid-ground. The accompanying article discusses the amount raised from the summer tour. Other articles on the page are “Motel’s legal rep calls process ‘tainted’ and “‘Number 1601’ to never be forgotten”. b – A double sided page that contains page numbers A3 and A4. The main headline for A3 is “Bicycle theft caught on video” which includes a blurry photograph of two individuals at a bike rack. At the bottom of the page is a red coloured advertisement for following Kingston city council on social media with the title “Know Kingston, // Follow city council.”.
The Man Machine Poem Tour was a concert tour by The Tragically Hip in support of their thirteenth full-length studio album Man Machine Poem. The tour consisted of 15 shows, the first held on July 22, 2016, in Victoria, British Columbia, and the last held on August 20, 2016, at the Rogers K-Rock Centre (Leon's Centre) in Kingston, Ontario.
The tour was announced on May 25, 2016, following an announcement the previous day regarding singer Gord Downie's brain cancer diagnosis. A portion of the proceeds of the tour were donated to the Sunnybrook Foundation, the independent fundraising arm of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; in addition to the ticket sale proceeds themselves, both Sunnybrook and the Canadian Cancer Society reported a significant increase in direct donations, totalling over one million dollars, from the public during the tour. CBC broadcast the tour's final concert in Kingston on its radio, television, and digital platforms, which was seen by 11.7 million viewers across all platforms, and a DVD of the concert was released in December 2017. The final concert was lived streamed in many public places across the country including Springer Market Square in Kingston, Ontario where 25,000 fans assembled to watch the concert.
Although generally reported by the media as such, at the time the band refrained from officially labeling the concerts as their farewell tour, and instead communicated the hope that Downie's health would remain stable enough for them to tour again in the future. However, Downie died of the illness on October 17, 2017. In July 2018, guitarist Rob Baker declared that the Tragically Hip were now inactive and the members had no plans to perform under the name again without Downie.
