Toronto Star

We've been here before. We've gone through the oil crisis, the exploding cost of gasoline, the lineups, the anger, the search for alternative energy sources. It happened in October 1973. For those of us old enough to remember, it was a time of global anxiety verging on panic. The world would never be the same, we were told. And then we forgot. Almost as if by general agreement, everyone silently decided to put the experience out of mind. We elected prime ministers and presidents who told us what we wanted to hear: Everything's fine. Carry on regardless. There's nothing to worry about. As if. Now the Canadian Centre for Architecture, in its new role as social agent provocateur, has mounted a powerful new exhibition that revisits those days when the bottom fell out of our dream of invincibility.