Whatever shall we do now that the CBC is on strike? It’s not enough to fill the projected 6-week work stoppage, but here we’ve collected a few suggestions:

First, to ease the pain: Helen Spitzer, god of CFRU, points us to a band of CBC enthusiasts called Peter Mansbridge and the CBCs.

You could become a regionalized Death Cab For Cutie. Get a band together and have your music featured on the Canadianized O.C.-show called Falcon Beach. Email your submission here.

Get blasted on vintage wines and save the planet in the process. With 90 per cent less packaging, the French Rabbit Tetra Pak is a sustainable wine container at the LCBO. Plus, 50 cents from F Rabbit sales go to a wildlife fund.

Pick up Chad Van Gaalen’s sickitating album Infiniheart, recently re-released on Subpop. (That’s sick as in good.)