Convocation Hall

So for the first time, TIFF started an actual, you know, specific market for people to gather to buy themselves films.

And it was at Convocation Hall,

right?

No, it was at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.

He led the NDP to what is still the party's only election victory in Ontario history.

It was October 1st, 1990 that he was sworn in at Convocation Hall.

It was really, you know, you ask yourself, what were the circumstances that allowed the NDP to win? And in fact, it took a perfect storm for it to happen.

The conservatives had been thrown out of office five years earlier.

We'll talk about them in the weeks leading up to October 26th.

And with that, let's move on to issue three and our interview with a pioneering member of the Ontario legislature.

36 years ago yesterday, the one and only NDP government, led by Premier Bob Ray, was sworn into office at the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall.

One member of that government was particularly noteworthy because he was the first deaf MPP ever elected.

[instrumental music plays] Gloria Steinem is speaking at the University of Toronto.

She's here to promote her new book, and hundreds of students pack into Convocation Hall for the sold-out event.

And naturally, Gwen is in the audience, too.

And after Gloria finishes speaking, there's a kind of Q&A.