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Maybe someone mistook Peter Mansbridge saying, "Liberal Attack Ads," as, "Attack Liberal Ads"?

-- Wages will increase by 12.6 percent over the life of the contract to March 31, 2009. There will be full retroactivity for all employees on the payroll prior to the lockout, including contract and temporary employees. There will also be a $1000 signing bonus.

There's no secret about it. Torontoist loves the CBC, so this strike is hurting us. A lot. We miss Promo Girl, we miss Peter Mansbridge, Ian Handsomemansing, we even miss how Randy Bachman prattles on about CanCon. Sure we've been getting our CBC fix from sites like this but we want this lockout to end soon. So in the spirit of the Simpsons, we're sending our love down the errr picket line.

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:

Current TV, Al Gore's pet telly project, launched itself into the digital cable stratosphere yesterday, empowering disenfranchised youth viewers, and cutting off the Canadian diaspora from their nightly Peter Mansbridge fix. The channel that's taking over Newsworld's slot will be available in approximately twenty million households. But if your house isn't one of those lucky few, the San Francisco-based Current's website is a souped-up ZED for the audience-input generation. You can watch clips, upload content and do the blog thing.

After a long-winded “showdown” last night, the big reveal of The Greatest Canadian airs tonight. No matter what the outcome of the CBC’s potentially petard-hoisting populist voting process (Don Cherry? really?), your fashion vote should be for Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The man, not the airport, who romanced Liona and Barbra and Bianca is undisputedly the most charming of the final contenders. This graphic Trudeau Tribute T-shirt, currently on sale for $23.50 and $18.75 from London, ON-based AllMaple Apparel, is equally charming. An evolution of the eponymous online arts magazine, the fledgling line gives the faux-vintage style of Abercrombie & Fitch a polite Canadian whoopin’ -- golf shirts are embroidered not with moose, or wealthy polo playboys, or crocodiles, but with a bona fide Canadian heritage what marketing-savvy graphic designer Garland Lyn did for disco and Ryan McGinness started with his slogan tees. (And the brand name is no misnomer: both the designs and the clothing they’re on are made in Canada.)

Our Much sources confirmed it last week, saying George wanted to 'tell everyone in the office, personally.' And now CBC is telling the entire world, personally: Stromboulopolous is leaving his five year career at Much to head up a current events show at Newsworld. This also means that Strombopoulous and, older vj of a sort, Peter Mansbridge, will now work in the same building. Oh the star power.