You Can Call Him Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors

Canadian living legend Stompin Tom Connors is being honoured today by the University of Toronto with an hounourary doctorate of laws degree.

This is the second doctorate for Connors, who is fiercely patriotic and not formally educated. The first was from St. Thomas University in 1993 in Fredericton, N.B. His new degree will probably be hung next to the previous one in his trophy room.

Missing, of course, are the six Juno awards he sent back in 1979 to protest the growing Americanization of the Canadian music industry.

At the age of 64 Connors is still participating in live performances. He is scheduled to perform on Parliament Hill on Canada Day for a show that will be aired on the CBC, along with a two-week tour in Ontario starting in the last week of July.

The always-political Connors also headlines Agrafest at Cayuga Speedway, near Hamilton, a fundraiser to aid Canadian farmers on Aug. 6.