Canadian music icon Rita MacNeil remembered

The woman known around the world as Cape Breton's first lady of song died at age 68 following complications from surgery. The singer and former CBC-TV star from Big Pond, N.S., inspired dozens of young songwriters and performers after her big break in the 1980s.

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