43.0 cm x 29.0 cm
A copy of the September 2016 snapd Kingston newspaper. The newspaper consists of 6 pieces of paper that have been folded in half vertically to create 12 double sided pages, making a total of 24 pages. a – The front and back pages of the newspaper. On the front cover of the newspaper are photographs for the articles contained within the newspaper which includes: a photograph of The Tragically Hip concert that occurred on August 20th, 2016 in Kingston, Ontario, a photograph of individuals attending the KYP social at KYC, 4 women at the Breast Cancer Action “Share The Care” Golf Tournament, and three children dressed up as Star Wars characters for the Star Wars costume contest at Movies In The Square!. b – The ,3rd, 4th, 21st and 22nd pages of the newspaper contain articles on the Kingston 2016 Government of Ontario Summer Company Celebration, the FL Hockey Coaching Symposium, the Kiwanis Club of Kingston 95th anniversary dinner, and advertisements for location business and restaurants. c – The 5th, 6th, 19th and 20th pages of the newspaper contain articles on the July 30th, 2016 Colour Run, a letter from snapd Kingston, a business profile for gymnast Ellie Black and advertisements for local business and restaurants. d – The 7th, 8th, 17th and 18th pages of the newspaper contain articles on the Into the Woods opening night at the Thousand Islands Playhouse’s Springer Theatre and the Back to the Farm: Mackinnon Brothers Beer & Music Festival. e – The 9th, 10th, 15th and 16th pages of the newspaper contain articles on the Princess St. Promenade and the Motorcycle Ride for Kids event. f – The 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th pages of the newspaper contain a calendar for September events.
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.
