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RIP Mendelson Joe, Joe Toole + Toronto live music listings

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Michael Barclay
Feb 08, 2023
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Mendelson Joe has left the building. Less than a month after Michael Snow. It’s time to celebrate Weird Canada.

The prolific visual artist and musician chose a medically assisted death following a long struggle with Parkinson’s. He was 78. His partner, gallerist Karen Robinson (not the actor), told poet Robert Priest: “Joe had a peaceful ending yesterda…

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