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50-664: The Cancer Centre is located at the Foothills Medical Centre and is physically attached to the Special Services Building, which too provides special, advanced medical services to patients. This Canadian hospital–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Alberta is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Foothills Medical Centre Foothills Medical Centre ( FMC )

100-683: A 24-hour emergency room and inpatient care, FMC has 57 outpatient clinics on site. This facility provides comprehensive and specialized medical and surgical services to Calgary and Southern Alberta: 1958 1965 1966 2001 2006 2010 2017 (2023) The Foothills Medical Centre has eleven parking lots with payment options including passes: monthly ($ 71), weekly ($ 40), daily ($ 14.25) or half-hour ($ 2 per half-hour or portion) with some discounts for seniors, etc., with authorization forms. A general monthly pass with no authorization form costs $ 125 if available. Some parking lots/stalls are designated for people with disabilities only. The Foothills Medical Centre

150-528: A backstage documentary called "Macroscopic", an animated Hip-scored short film entitled "The Right Whale", two brand new songs ("No Threat" and "The New Maybe"), a full-length concert from November 2004 That Night in Toronto , and a 2-CD greatest hits collection Yer Favourites (selected on-line by 150,000 fans). On November 8, 2005, Yer Favourites and That Night in Toronto were released individually. In 2006, another studio album, entitled World Container ,

200-404: A benefit concert on the grounds of the former Kingston Penitentiary , with guest vocalists Hugh Dillon and Tom Cochrane . In January 2020, Sinclair announced that his own debut album as a solo artist, Taxi Dancers , would be released on February 28. In June 2020, the band and manager Jake Gold announced that they were undertaking an "archaeological dig" to select music and memorabilia from

250-480: A lead trauma centre , one of 10 trauma centres in Alberta, and the largest regional trauma centre in Southern Alberta. In addition, Foothills Medical Centre is accredited by Accreditation Canada for stroke rehabilitation. Foothills Medical Centre works in conjunction with the nearby University of Calgary for the purposes of educating students as well as providing facilities for medical research . FMC includes

300-454: A radio station in the band's hometown of Kingston. The Tragically Hip was among hundreds of artists whose material was reported to have been destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire but it later emerged that the band's master tapes had been transferred back to Canada in 2001, and had escaped the fire. On September 14, 2019, Langlois, Sinclair and Baker performed a set at Rockin' the Big House,

350-458: A recording of a live show. To celebrate and promote the re-release, the band toured Canada and the United States from January to October 2015. In December 2015, Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer . The band announced his diagnosis on May 24, 2016. The band also announced that, despite his condition, they would tour that summer. The Hip's thirteenth album, Man Machine Poem ,

400-1147: A skit in the Michael Nesmith movie Elephant Parts . By the mid-1980s, they performed in small music venues across Ontario until being seen by then- MCA Vice President Bruce Dickinson at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto . They were then signed to a long-term record deal with MCA, and recorded the EP The Tragically Hip , released in 1987. The album produced two singles, "Small Town Bring-Down" and "Highway Girl". They followed up with 1989's Up to Here . This album produced four singles, " Blow at High Dough ", " New Orleans Is Sinking ", "Boots or Hearts", and " 38 Years Old ". All four of these songs found extensive rotation on modern rock radio play lists in Canada. Road Apples followed in 1991, producing three singles (" Little Bones ", " Twist My Arm ", and " Three Pistols ") and reaching No. 1 on Canadian record charts. During

450-544: Is a fan of the Tragically Hip, released a tribute statement on his official website the morning after Downie's death. Later in the day, he held a press conference at Parliament Hill at which he eulogized Downie as "Our buddy Gord, who loved this country with everything he had—and not just loved it in a nebulous, 'Oh, I love Canada' way. He loved every hidden corner, every story, every aspect of this country that he celebrated his whole life." Following Downie's death, many of

500-510: Is alluded to in the Tragically Hip song "Take Forever" from the album Now for Plan A . The song's lyrics "Calgary, to have my heart attack; Calgary, the place to do it, it's a fact" reference to the angioplasty treatment available at the hospital and a 2010 study completed by University of Calgary researchers. Tragically Hip The Tragically Hip , often referred to simply as the Hip ,

550-448: Is the largest hospital in the province of Alberta and is located in the city of Calgary . It is one of Canada's most recognized medical facilities and one of the leading research and teaching hospitals. Foothills Medical Centre provides advanced healthcare services to over two million people from Calgary, and surrounding regions including southern Alberta , southeastern British Columbia , and southern Saskatchewan . Formerly operated by

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600-640: The 1999 Juno Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Album Design . A single from the album, " Bobcaygeon ", won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 2000. The album has been certified platinum three times over in Canada. In February 1999, the Hip played the first concert at the brand new Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In July 1999, the band was part of the lineup for the Woodstock '99 festival in Rome, New York . On

650-600: The Calgary Health Region , it is now under the authority of Alberta Health Services and part of the University of Calgary Medical Centre . The main building of the hospital was opened in June 1966. It was originally named Foothills Provincial General Hospital and later known simply as Foothills Hospital. With the addition of other medical facilities, it became known by its present name. Foothills Medical Centre functions as

700-538: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a cross-platform television, radio and internet streaming special. After Downie died on October 17, 2017, the band announced in July 2018 that they would no longer perform under the name. The surviving members have, however, continued to pursue other musical projects, and have begun releasing deluxe reissues of their albums featuring previously unreleased songs from

750-553: The Government of Alberta ), 21 short-stay beds (a total of 150 additional beds), as well as 8 operating rooms. In November 2011, the newly designed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was awarded the 2012 Design Citation for being "one of the best in the world". The neighbouring Alberta Children's Hospital and west side of the University of Calgary campus are accessible from FMC via West Campus Boulevard. Apart from these distinctions, FMC boasts

800-529: The University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine , Hotchkiss Brain Institute, as well as the Special Services Building (where most other medical services are provided) and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre , which was renamed the "Cancer Centre", and is a leading centre in Alberta for cancer treatment and research. The large site also features Grace Women's Health Centre, which specializes in women's health,

850-553: The 1993 charity single " Land ", which protested forest clearcutting in British Columbia . Many songs from Day For Night were first performed prior to their release during the 1993 Another Roadside Attraction Tour. "Nautical Disaster" was played frequently in the middle of "New Orleans Is Sinking", an early version of "Thugs" was tested, and Downie sang lyrics from many other Day For Night songs, such as "Grace, Too", "Scared", and "Emergency", during this tour. Day for Night

900-845: The 92nd Grey Cup held November 21, 2004, the band provided the halftime entertainment in front of a packed house at Frank Clair Stadium in Ottawa. In 2004, in episode 15 ("Rock On"), season 2 of Canadian comedy TV series Corner Gas , the Tragically Hip gave a cameo appearance as an unnamed local band rehearsing in Brent's garage. They play a rough version of the song It Can't Be Nashville Every Night from their In Between Evolution album until interrupted and asked to leave by Brent, Wanda, and Hank. As they disappointedly go, Wanda demands that Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker leave behind their amplifiers. In October 2005, several radio stations temporarily stopped playing " New Orleans Is Sinking ", out of sensitivity to

950-517: The Bahamas was released, along with three singles from the album. It became certified platinum in Canada. Later that year, the Hip made a cameo appearance in the Paul Gross film Men with Brooms , playing a curling team from their hometown of Kingston. Three of their songs appear in the film, and they backed Sarah Harmer on a fourth, the soundtrack's lead single, "Silver Roads". On October 10, 2002,

1000-595: The Calgary Stroke Program, an initiative of the Foothills Medical Centre, was awarded the "Stroke Services Distinction" and is recognized as one of two leading stroke centres in Canada, the other in Toronto, by Accreditation Canada. The Foothills Medical Centre is one of twelve hospitals in the Calgary zone, which has a population of 1,408,606 and an average life expectancy of 82.9 years. In addition to

1050-780: The Health Sciences Association of Alberta, as well as both the North Tower and South Tower, which offer many outpatient services. The head office of Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta is located on the 8th floor of the Foothills Medical Centre. The TRW Building was also added to the Health Sciences building, which was completed in late 2005. In addition, the new McCaig Tower opened in October 2010 with 93 inpatient beds, 36 bed intensive care unit (only 28 funded by

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1100-636: The Hip headlined Edenfest . The three-day concert took place at Mosport Park, in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, just a few months after the LP Trouble at the Henhouse was released. The concert sold over 70,000 tickets total and was attended by an estimated 20,000 additional people who gained access to the concert site after the outside security broke down. In 1998, the band released their sixth full-length album, Phantom Power , which produced five singles. It won

1150-535: The Road Apples tour, Downie became recognized for ranting and telling fictional stories during songs such as "Highway Girl" and "New Orleans Is Sinking". Road Apples was planned to be a double album but was rejected by Universal. The 2008 Universal Studios fire resulted in the destruction of the masters for the second album. The six unreleased songs were rediscovered in another collection in 2020. In 2021 they were released as an EP titled Saskadelphia , which had been

1200-538: The Tragically Hip performed two songs, "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken" and "Poets", as part of a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II . In 2003, the band recorded a cover of "Black Day in July", a song about the 1967 12th Street Riot in Detroit, on Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot . In Between Evolution was released in 2004 in the No. 1 position in Canada. It has since sold over 100,000 copies. At

1250-421: The Tragically Hip were no longer active as a touring or recording entity following Downie's death. He stated "When I say The Tragically Hip doesn't exist as a performing unit anymore because a key member is gone, I think [fans] understand that. We wouldn't be The Hip without Gord [...] The Hip has played their last note." Baker also revealed that Downie had encouraged the group to audition replacement vocalists, but

1300-578: The Tragically Hip were the best-selling Canadian band in Canada and the fourth best-selling Canadian artist overall in Canada. Following Downie's diagnosis with terminal brain cancer in 2015, the band undertook a tour of Canada in support of their thirteenth album, Man Machine Poem . The tour's final concert, which would ultimately be the band's last show, was held at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston on August 20, 2016, and broadcast globally by

1350-538: The band finishing with a performance of " Ahead by a Century ". The CBC's broadcast and live streaming of the concert, uninterrupted by advertisements, was watched by 11.7 million people (roughly one-third of the Canadian population). On October 13, 2016, Downie gave an interview, his first since his cancer diagnosis, to the CBC's Peter Mansbridge , in which he reported experiencing memory loss. Downie also told Mansbridge that he

1400-537: The band had unreleased material that may still be issued as one or more new albums; when accepting Downie's posthumous awards at the Juno Awards of 2018 , his brothers Patrick and Mike also stated that more unreleased music is likely to be issued in the future. A National Celebration , a concert film of the Tragically Hip's final concert, was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 8, 2017. In July 2018, guitarist Rob Baker told Entertainment Tonight Canada that

1450-413: The band had yet to decide how it would be released. On October 11, 2018, six days before the first anniversary of Downie's death, Fay and Baker joined Choir! Choir! Choir! at Yonge-Dundas Square for a live performance of the Tragically Hip's " Grace, Too ". On October 17, 2018, one year after Downie's death, a previously unreleased studio recording of the song "Wait So Long" was played on CIKR-FM ,

1500-666: The band's albums climbed the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, which is compiled by Neilsen Music. In the week ending October 19, 2017 (the day following the announcement of Downie's death), Yer Favourites rose to No. 2 in the chart, with another 10 albums moving to the Top 200. Streaming also increased 700 percent, and many of the Tragically Hip's top hits remained on the Spotify Canadian Viral 50 as of October 23, 2017. Before his death, Downie indicated in interviews that

1550-685: The band's archives. The Tragically Hip formed in 1984 in Kingston, Ontario . Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker were students at Kingston Collegiate and had performed together at the KCVI Variety Show as the Rodents. Baker and Sinclair joined with Downie and Fay in 1984 and began playing gigs around Kingston with some memorable stints at Clark Hall Pub and Alfie's, student bars on Queen's University campus. Guitarist Paul Langlois joined in 1986; saxophonist Davis Manning left that same year. They took their name from

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1600-549: The first live act to perform at the new K-Rock Centre . In 2009, the band again worked with producer Bob Rock, and We Are the Same was released in North America on April 7, 2009. It produced three singles. To promote We Are the Same , the band invited The Hour 's George Stroumboulopoulos for a live interview at The Bathouse Recording Studio in Bath, Ontario (where most of the album

1650-406: The follow-up tour for this album, the band made its only appearance on Saturday Night Live , on March 25, 1995, thanks in large part to the finagling of fellow Canadian and Kingston-area resident Dan Aykroyd , who appeared on the show just to introduce them. Aykroyd, who is a fan of the band, had personally lobbied SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels to book them as a musical guest. In July 1996,

1700-548: The other members did not seriously consider the idea. With the legalization of marijuana in Canada, the remaining band members became investment partners in Newstrike, a cannabis company which has named several of its products after Tragically Hip songs. In a July 2018 interview with the Toronto Sun , Baker confirmed that at least three albums' worth of unreleased material was recorded with Downie before his death, but stated that

1750-526: The second day of three, they were the first band to take the stage. They were followed by Kid Rock . Their next album, Music @ Work , was released in 2000. It won the 2001 Juno Award for Best Rock Album . The album featured back-up vocals from Julie Doiron on a number of tracks, and reached No. 1 on the Canadian Billboard Charts. In 2002, In Violet Light , recorded by Hugh Padgham and Terry Manning at Compass Point Studios in

1800-533: The singles " Locked in the Trunk of a Car ", " Courage ", " At the Hundredth Meridian ", and three others. The sound on this album displayed less of a blues influence than previous albums. The Hip created and headlined the first Another Roadside Attraction tour at this time, which also featured Midnight Oil , Crash Vegas , Hothouse Flowers and Daniel Lanois . The five artists on the tour collaborated together on

1850-605: The soundtrack to the Kids in the Hall movie Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy . The live album Live Between Us was recorded on the subsequent tour at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan . The band developed a unique sound and ethos, leaving behind its earlier blues influence. Downie's vocal style changed while the band experimented with song structures and chord progressions. Songs explored

1900-408: The themes of Canadian geography and history, water and land, all motifs that became heavily associated with the Hip. While Fully Completely began an exploration of deeper themes, many critics consider Day for Night to be the Hip's artistry most fully realized. The sound here is typically called "enigmatic" and "dark", while critic MacKenzie Wilson praises "the poignancy of Downie's minimalism." On

1950-565: The tour are the subjects of Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier 's documentary film Long Time Running , which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . It was slated to have its television premiere in November 2017 on CTV , but following Downie's death the network moved the broadcast up to October 20. Gord Downie died on October 17, 2017. His death was widely mourned throughout Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , who

2000-481: The victims of Hurricane Katrina , which had devastated the city in early September of that year. However, it received considerable pirate radio and relief site play and gained some notoriety and praise in New Orleans due to its attitudinal proximity to the city's culture. On November 1, 2005, the Hip released a double CD, double DVD box set , Hipeponymous , including all of their singles and music videos to date,

2050-494: The working title for Road Apples. The sound on these first two full-length albums is sometimes characterized as "blues-tinged", although there is definite acoustic punctuation throughout both discs. Although the band failed to achieve significant international success with these first two albums, their sales and dominance of modern rock radio in Canada gave them license to subsequently explore their sound. The band released another album, Fully Completely in 1992, which produced

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2100-501: The world's first and most powerful movable MRI machine, which was introduced in January 2009. It will help patients at the Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) receive the world's safest, most accurate surgery possible. In addition, the world's first robotic surgery to remove a brain tumour was performed on a patient at the FMC, which also created a landmark in Canadian medical history. In June 2010,

2150-502: Was a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984 , consisting of vocalist Gord Downie , guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay. They released 13 studio albums, one live album, one EP, and over 50 singles over a 33-year career. Nine of their albums have reached No. 1 on the Canadian charts. They have received numerous Canadian music awards, including 17 Juno Awards . Between 1996 and 2016,

2200-456: Was recorded), and they played seven new songs as well as unique versions of five other songs. The interview and performance were broadcast live in more than eighty theatres across Canada. On January 22, 2010, the band performed "Fiddler's Green" at the "Canada for Haiti" telethon to aid earthquake victims in that country. This was broadcast nationally on all three of Canada's main networks ( CBC , Global , and CTV ). Single " At Transformation "

2250-505: Was released in May 2012 ahead of the band's twelfth studio album, Now for Plan A . A second single, "Streets Ahead" came out in August that year, and the album followed in October. The Tragically Hip re-entered their studio in July 2014 to begin work on a new album. The following October, Fully Completely was re-released as a remastered deluxe edition, including two bonus tracks, a vinyl edition and

2300-630: Was released on June 17, 2016. The album featured songs such as "In a World Possessed by the Human Mind", "In Sarnia", and "Machine". The final concert of the Man Machine Poem tour was held at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in the band's hometown of Kingston on August 20, 2016. The concert was aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television , CBC Radio One , CBC Radio 2 , CBC Music , and YouTube . The concert featured 30 songs and three encore sets, with

2350-505: Was released, being notably produced by Bob Rock . It produced four singles, and reached the No. 1 spot on the Canadian rock music charts. The band toured concert dates in major Canadian cities, and then as an opening act for the Who on several US dates. A tour of Eastern Canada, Europe, and select cities in the United States occurred late in the year. On February 23, 2008, the Hip returned to their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, where they were

2400-463: Was selected as The Canadian Press ' Canadian Newsmaker of the Year and was the first entertainer ever selected for the title. On June 15, 2017, all five members of the Tragically Hip were announced as recipients of the Order of Canada by Governor General of Canada David Johnston . Downie received his honour on June 19; the other four members of the band were invested on November 17. The band and

2450-468: Was then released in 1994, producing six singles, including " Nautical Disaster " and " Grace, Too ". Trouble at the Henhouse followed in 1996, producing five singles starting with " Ahead by a Century ", which reached number one on the RPM Canadian singles chart on 24 June and became their most successful single in their home country. "Butts Wigglin", the fifth single from Henhouse , also appeared on

2500-470: Was working with the Tragically Hip on new studio material, and that the band have up to four albums worth of unreleased material in the vaults. Downie released his fifth solo album, Secret Path on October 18, 2016. The album is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack , a First Nations boy who escaped from a Canadian Indian residential school in 1966 and died while attempting to make the 600 km walk back to his home. On December 22, 2016, Downie

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