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Gordon Lightfoot performs during the evening ceremonies of Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation. Lightfoot died on Monday at age 84. (Sean Kilpatrick | AP Newsroom)

Looking back on Gordon Lightfoot’s legendary songs

By Nick Glover, Lifestyle Editor | May 3, 2023

Every young boy has a moment when they become a man, that conversation where you know everything changes afterward, that split second when their father sits them down and says, “son, it’s time you listen to Gordon Lightfoot.”  One day, when...