I jogged “with” Pope John Paul II for around 7km down University Ave on his visit to Toronto in 1984. As in, I followed alongside his Popemobile on foot. Then attended a big Polish Mass at Exhibition Stadium that evening. Rumor had it he was going to make an impromptu visit by helicopter to my dad’s hometown of Wilno in the Ottawa Valley, Canada’s first Polish settlement, but the locals were left hanging like with the Great Pumpkin so made their way to the Wilno Tavern instead for bigos and Zywiec.