Joanne Schiewe held on long enough to take in what could be Gord Downie's final concert in Winnipeg, but on Monday, just weeks after the Tragically Hip show, she lost her battle with brain cancer. "Certainly it was a hell of a fight before she went," her partner Jared Spier said. Schiewe was a big Tragically Hip fan who had glioblastoma, the same form of terminal brain cancer that Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has. Schiewe and her partner Jared Spier were excited to get tickets to the recent Hip show at the MTS Centre. Joanne Schiewe and her partner Jared Spier were worried she might not make it to the Hip's show in Winnipeg.

Source: CBC News August 30, 2016 13:08 UTC