Results tagged “onoctober”

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Black Monday, the biggest one-day stock market plunge in history. On October 19, 1987, Bay Street was shocked to see all the key market indices plummet. The TSE 300 lost over 400 points as, in a frenzy of panicked selling, a record 77 million shares were desperately traded on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. By day's end, hundreds of millions of dollars evaporated from share values, including $37 billion in Toronto alone.

There are trendsetters, trend followers, and those who plant their feet and shout at trends until they go away. Over the years, with their solid sound and party-till-you-puke attitude, Toronto band The Pariahs have survived countless club scenes by screaming louder and longer than the competition.

The Scarborough Arts Council and The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College are doing something neat—they're recording podcasts about technology in front of a live studio audience.

Billiard balls in the mouth, eating live goldfish, sitting on flagpoles… people will go to great lengths just to get into the Guinness Book of World Records. Fortunately, unlike this guy, you don’t have to bowl for 100 hours or have a 126-member wedding party to get a shot at immortality.

Last Monday was not just the start of the Ontario general election campaign—it was also the beginning of a campaign to change the way we elect our representatives to Queen's Park. On October 10th, Ontarians will vote on a proposal by the Citizens' Assembly (a randomly-selected group of 103 Ontarians) to switch to a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system, similar to that used in some other countries including Germany and New Zealand.

On October 26, 2004, Torontoist had our very first post. Which makes today the day we turn the age that all parents and babysitters fear most - two!

TTC stations can either be accessible, or not. Except for Christie Station, shown here. It's neither not accessible nor accessible.