The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie, performs during the first stop of the Man Machine Poem Tour at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, B.C., Friday, July 22, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Tragically Hip fans, give yourselves a pat on the back!

In a recent response to the final hip tour & Gord Downie’s diagnoses with incurable brain cancer earlier this year, fans have jumped to help.  According to The Canadian Cancer Society & the Sunnybrook Foundation, Tragically Hip’s recent tour has raised more than $1 million for brain cancer research in Canada.

The Sunnybrook Foundation says their donations totalled nearly $800,000 and have been made to the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.

 

This fund has been designed to give brain cancer researchers the tools to help beat brain cancers that are currently unbeatable.