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Depressed by the current deep freeze? Here’s something to make you feel warmer – next week, the boys of summer (or at least the pitchers and catchers) report for spring training for the Blue Jays’ 30th anniversary season.

Torontoist is crying in our large double doubles after reading this little piece about Tim Horton's rabidly popular Roll up The Rim contest on the CBC News site. It turns out that southern Ontario Tim Horton customers have the worst odds of winning the major prizes in Timmy Ho's contest; one in 11 million versus one in four million in Quebec and one in eight million in BC!

- The NFB's Citizen Shift is presenting a screening and discussion night across the country, on the theme of measuring security measures. Tonight's TO screening is at Innis Town Hall.

It certainly seems to be the summer of strike. Be it the avoidance of strike with last minute backroom dealings or the injunctions against hydro workers to stop blocking entry to the gates of power, mediators must be working overtime. And now the CEEB has gone dark. CBC employees have been locked out as of 12:01 this morning. The mainpage has been redirected to a much paired-down CBC News page, And the radio is playing relaxing morning music by the likes of K-os and Martha Wainwright.