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Kudos to the designer of today's featured ad, which successfully imitates the look and feel of one of the most successful new magazine launches of the 1970s to promote a longtime Toronto wake-up call, CBC Radio's Metro Morning.

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?

So it's official: the alarm about bike post security was both justified and an overreaction.

You've probably already figured it out but the TTC is on strike. Metro Morning and the CBC are keeping us on top of things and they're reporting that Bob Kinnear, the head of the TTC union are willing to comply with orders from Ontario Labour Relations Board to go back to work. He's waiting for "the papers."

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.

Fired city staffer Pam Cobourn suspects that someone in the city knows something about how two murdered bikers got tow truck permits. She suspects that someone on staff not only knows what's going on but probably also deleted records to allow those with criminal records to get permits. She spoke on the CBC's Metro Morning today.

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 that wake us up every morning, and every year we forget until it's too late.

As of this morning, certain GTA highways are now equipped with that most obvious of traffic-lightening methods, the carpool lane, but not everyone thinks it's such a good idea.

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.

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 podcasts on a regular basis? They must, because everyone and their mother has a podcast, or an impending attempt at one in the works. Even Metro Morning, who hopes "CBC Radio listeners will be able to grab up-to-date local stories and information from Toronto's No. 1 morning show according to their own schedule." We find it hard to believe that people are going to pick up Andy Barrie's all-important morning musings to listen to them over lunch, but perhaps they will. Perhaps we're just lazier and less inclined to listen to old news than the rest of the world.

It's hard enough to get up in the morning when the air is crisp and clean. So when the air is "yellow and acrid," as one Metro Morning announcer said this morning, it's impossible not to worry about the day before you. Today, folks are recommending masks to prevent fetid air and debris from making their way into the mouths of bikers. And the impending weather will not help stem the smog. To foster discussion about the depraved state of our air, the city will host a Smog Summit on Wednesday. We're dubious about the signing of superfluous documents and don't particularly enjoy watching politicos get together to sign declarations against smog, but it's something, and we'd be remiss to think that something is not better than yellow, acrid air. The summit is free, but registration is required.