The onslaught of selling intensified during Monday trading on the Canadian markets as investors look to get out of equities at any cost. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange plunged 6.94%, while the TSX Gold Index lost 0.4% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell a mind numbing 8.82% with the declining issuers once again outpacing the advancers, this time by a 779 to 190 margin on volume of 131 million shares traded.