Totally random, but pretty sure it was the assassination attempt on the Pope in 1981. CBC or CTV broke into programming to cover it middle of the day, and of course with only 3 channels (Access Ch 13 didn't count), that was big news and was on our parents TV all evening, and their TV was rarely on all evening.
It was that or on Reagan a few months earlier...either way I would've just turned 5.
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