Local 87 M of Communications, Energy and Paperworkers, the union that represents Globe and Mail workers, voted overwhelmingly to give its bargaining committee a mandate to call a strike if need be.

Now let's hope it won't be needed and that a negotiated settlement can be reached (note, I work for CTV News, which is part of CTVglobemedia. The Globe and Mail is a corporate cousin to CTV).

Seven months ago, David Rohde of the New York Times went to interview a Taliban leader in Afghanistan and didn't come back. He had been taken prisoner, long with two Afghan colleagues

Rohde and one of his colleagues escaped Saturday from his captors' clutches in North Waziristan, Pakistan, so as with CBC's Melissa Fung, his story can now be told.