The 26 minutes Toronto stood still

Last Saturday afternoon life ground to a halt all over southern Ontario for 26 minutes. Traffic on the 401 was at an eerie standstill. Major airports were shut down. And everywhere you look people were listening to something. But what? Come join me in my time machine and let’s find out. * There we are. We’re on Yonge Street. Everybody is standing, listening with a ferocious intensity, almost trance-like. Some are in their cars. Others have headphones. Ahh, here is a group of youth huddled around a crackling vintage transistor radio. What is it they are listening to? Come, let’s listen in too.