Stones rock Canadian concert to help beat SARS stigma

Hundreds of thousands of revellers gathered for an outdoor concert by the Rolling Stones as others intended to show the world that Canada’s largest city was free of SARS and ready to rock.

Organisers, who estimated yesterday’s crowd at approximately half a million people, hope the concert will help revive tourism in Canada, particularly in Toronto, where two spring outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome devastated the crucial industry.