Terribly sad day.<p>It's been a sad week for Canada having lost John Dunsworth on Monday.<p>Here's one of my favourites -- Gord Downie performing a dramatization of an Al Purdy poem, with a dub of Al Purdy reading, himself.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKeczB3wrg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKeczB3wrg</a><p>Downie was an advocate of Canadian arts & letters, and naturally, a poet himself. The CBC Obituary is a good read and does him better justice than I can.