Mike says he hopes the film makes it clear that this idea, "meant a lot to this guy, he wasn't chasing causes around, this was really important. It's not very pleasant, but don't look away,' you know?" "Then for him to say, 'Look at this, this is our country too. And for him that missing piece became very obvious. "That there wasn't a whole country, you know, we hadn't figured out what that missing piece was. "Growing up, he always felt that there was something missing," says Mike. It was a moment that helped Gord finally get at something that had been nagging at him for years. And I think at that time our feeling was, if we knew so little about something like this, like wow, there must be millions of Canadians who have no idea." "I really didn't know anything about them, to my shame. "Gord and I, we knew so little about residential schools," Mike says. The hour-long film chronicles that last year of Gord Downie's life, and his determination to tell Chanie Wenjack's story:Ī photo of Chanie Wenjack, held by his sister Pearl Achneepineskum, seen in a Canadian Heritage Minute. An encore broadcast of the documentary will air on CBC News Network on Oct.on CBC Television (9:30 NT), on the CBC TV streaming app and cbc.ca/watch. Finding the Secret Path premieres Friday, Oct.WATCH: The interview with Patrick and Mike Downie from The National.Now, nearly a year after Gord Downie's death, his brothers Patrick and Mike are premiering a new CBC documentary they've produced - Finding The Secret Path. The Secret Path and getting it out there. "This is not to take away from anything he did on that farewell tour with the Hip, but this is what he really wanted to see to the end. "His main focus was the release of Secret Path," says Gord's brother, Patrick Downie. It's a story that gripped Downie, even as he struggled with the brain tumour that was killing him. He died of hunger and exhaustion trying to walk 600 kilometres home to the family he was taken from. I have Peter written on my hand.In his last year, while living with his own tragic story, Gord Downie was consumed by another.Ĭhanie Wenjack, a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy, ran away from a residential school in northern Ontario 52 years ago. “My memory is what used to be my forte, and now I can’t remember hardly anything. In an interview with the CBC after the cross-Canada tour wrapped up, Downie shared his experiences with brain surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy. Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre, including clinical and research space for neurologists who care for patients with brain cancer, research in personalized glioblastoma radiation treatment and the adoption of an institution-wide approach to cancer care for Indigenous patients at Sunnybrook.” As of June 2019, Canadians help raise $2.5 million for the fund. The fund helps “support the Gord Downie Fellowship in Brain Oncology, construction of the G. In 2016 at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital. Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research The money went towards clinical trials in cancer therapy, supportive care and prevention that are coordinated out of a Kingston, Ontario-oncology group. That thanks to the band’s efforts to raise awareness, it received almost $400,000 in honour of Downie and the Tragically Hip. The Man Machine Poem Tour also raised thousands of dollars for cancer research. He always had this boundless energy and fortitude.” Even in his healthy life, I often compared him to a professional athlete. The Toronto Sun: “ had such a strong constitution. Patrick Downie, the singer-songwriter’s brother, Was exuberant and bittersweet, with a third of Canadians reportedly The “very tough news” of Downie’s terminal diagnosis.īut the somber announcement was followed by the promise of one final blow-out tour across Canada, with the band stating, “this feels like the right thing to do now, for Gord, and for all of us.” That summer’s The band released an official statement on their website in spring 2016, That affects about four people in 100,000 in Canada, according to the 14 and almost three years to the day of Downie’s death. The release comes just days after Brain Cancer Awareness Day on Oct.
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