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October 16 is the day that the Walt Disney Company was founded (1923), the day that Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping (1970), and the day that President Bush signed into law the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (2002). It is also, though you may not know it, World Food Day, as deemed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. World Food Day has been celebrated in more than 150 countries since 1979, and since 1981, each year has had a theme. This year's theme is The Right to Food; that is, "the right of every person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in dignity, rather than the right to be fed."

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want.

The Gallerist is Torontoist's new bi-weekly arts listings. Starting January 31st, check back every other Wednesday for a new batch of events.

"Hey hey. Ho ho. Ashlee Simpson is a no-talent goat."

(so says the Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society - the italics are theirs). Mackenzie House is that cute little building tucked away on Bond St. that is the historic home of Hogtown's first mayor, and much beloved rabble-rouser, William Lyon Mackenzie. Nothing too terribly gruesome happened in the house - Mackenzie died here, but of natural causes. Still, rumours of hauntings abound, and the house actually lists in its inventory "One Ghost (exorcised)". Our favourite master researcher Ann related the following creepy story about a caretaker who worked at the museum back in the eighties when the security system left something to be desired so that caretaker had to spend the night: