I just heard on the CTV Toronto newscast that the Toronto Star could be on strike as of Saturday.

Late Wednesday night, union members voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action.

If they do hit the bricks, it would be the first strike at the paper since 1992. But both sides say they want to avoid a strike.

Someone in Globeland dug up the piece I referred to earlier on the Ice Storm (thank you very much!). The story ran on Jan. 10, 1998 and was written by Andre Picard, who is currently the paper's public health reporter.