Yesterday, the Lakeview Generating Station in Port Credit was demolished as crowds looked on. Toronto usually gets weepy over the destruction of buildings, but the station was a pretty ugly example of Soviet-era industrial architecture and it was powered by coal. Are you going to miss it? Andy Barrie, host of CBC Radio One's Metro Morning, has early-stage Parkinson's. Three men have been charged with pimping out a 17-year-old girl at strip clubs and......

Adam Vaughan has put down his camera and picked up his political boxing gloves. He filed his nomination papers and is now an official candidate in Trinity-Spadina, the ward vacated by Olivia Chow when she was elected to Parliament earlier in the year. Long-time community activist Tam Goosens and former Olivia Chow assistant Helen Kennedy are also slated to run in the ward. Media outlets are drooling over the fact that one of their own......

Every December for as long as Torontoist can remember the holidays have been marked by a certain Friday morning when CBC's Metro Morning (our must-listen morning radio since childhood) just doesn't quite sound the same. The strange echo and laughter of a live audience can only mean one thing: we've missed the CBC's holiday open house yet again. Every year we swear that we'll haul our cookies down to Front Street to meet the voices......

One of the worse things about this asinine CBC lockout are the replacement managers they've got to take over the morning shows. Instead of quirky, insightful and useful radio we got hours of snooze-inducing radio just when we needed to wake up. There was probably good reason why Andy Barrie's Metro Morning was the number one morning show in Toronto. The Metro Morning Gang had personality, character and knew what was going on, or at......

If CUPE local outside workers threaten to strike, you lose a valuable ally in the effort to send your garbage to Michigan. But if CBC employees strike, you lose not only the sound of Andy Barrie coughing you awake in the morning, but also the opportunity to purchase a retro CBC tshirt. That is, if CBC gift shop employees are unionized. We're not actually sure. The 5,500 unionized workers are voting today on whether to......

We're just going to come right out and say it - we don't get podcasting. Yes, we know what it is and how it works, and what mp3 player du jour it takes its name from. But it's really just taking a pretaped file and putting it on your player to listen to a later time, no? Taping for the digital age. Why does that warrant a fancy name? And do people actually listen to......

The TTC will get 300 or so new buses, to replace the most aged vehicles in the fleet. Andy Barrie and his minions say that 150 of these wheely wonders will be fuel-efficient hybrids, but TOist can find no reports of such in print. But we trust Andy, and look forward to the increasing hybridization of the fleet. And with better service during off-peak hours, as per the recent budget, perhaps we'll even see the......