stompin' tom

Details of Stoppin’ Tom Connors public memorial, which the Canadian singer helped to plan two weeks before he passed away, have emerged.

In a Saturday cover story, the Toronto Sun‘s indefatigable Joe Warmington told the tale of Gerard Taylor, from Sault Ste. Marie, who had shocking photographic evidence of a Peel Regional Police cruiser parked in a handicapped spot at a Wendy’s/Tim Horton’s location in Mississauga. Taylor understandably wanted that spot for himself, having lost both legs nearly 30 years ago attempting to jump a freight train to Sudbury to see a rock concert—a back story that’s all the more worthy of a Stompin’ Tom number when you realize how perfectly “Sault Ste. Marie” rhymes with “double-amputee.” But we digress.