Are you frustrated that you can't watch the latest YouTube version of the bed intruder song while at work?

Try telling your boss it will actually make you more productive.

A new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen shows restricting employee access to sites not used for work is bad for the work environment.

Researchers divided people into two groups and asked everyone to watch a video of people passing a ball back and forth and count how many passes they make.

People in one group were allowed to watch a funny clip before counting the passes while the others saw a message saying they could watch the video if they clicked a link, but were told not to watch it.

The groups were in nearby rooms and the second group could hear the first group laughing at the funny clip.

Workers who watched the funny clip first made fewer mistakes when counting than their peers who were not initially distracted by the video. It turns out not being able to do as one pleases and being forced to

sandbagsFlooding of the Red River in Manitoba is an annual worry for residents of Winnipeg and others in the province.

People in and around the city have been preparing for water levels to rise again this year, but now they have an extra tool to help monitor flooding.

The Winnipeg Free Press launched an interactive map with live flood cameras that allow users to watch water levels in real time. The province issued its first official flood warning of the season yesterday, making it an opportune time for cameras set up at strategic points along the river to go live. Users can go online and click on any of the eight live feeds set up on the map.

Serious flooding has yet to hit downtown Winnipeg, but communities north of the city like Dauphin River First Nation have become ghost towns as residents head for drier land.

More than the flood waters, the large chunks of ice that have washed over roads have made travel in the area treacherous. The most northerly placement of the cameras, located at the

Tom Young, the Halifax-based talk radio personality, is retiring after 50 years on the airwaves.

The early afternoon host, currently heard on three Rogers Media stations in the Maritimes, will sign off on July 29.

While he started his career in the Canadian Forces in West Germany, Young settled in Saint John, N.B. in 1973 where he hosted "Talk of the Town" on CBFC until the show was cancelled for budgetary reasons in 2000.

"They just decided that as a cost-cutting measure it would be a good way to get rid of a salary and make the owners more money," Young commented at the time, "so they said, 'have a nice day'."

Young returned to the dial in 2005 when Rogers launched Canada's first FM news-oriented stations in Halifax, Moncton and Saint John, which simulcast the same phone-in shows.

But, when it has come to commercial talk radio in Canada, speaking with more than one city at a time has remained the exception rather than the rule.

While the CBC has transcended time zones on Sunday

Welcome to Morning Brew, our daily roundup of early-bird news:

• Hockey is not an affordable expense for one-third of Canadian parents whose kids play the game, while half expect to spend more than $1,000 on activities next year, according to a Harris/Decima survey conducted to promote Scotiabank as "Canada's Hockey Bank." (CNW)

• Dollarama profits grew to $42 million during its fourth quarter, with a 5.3 per cent increase in same store sales, after 49 new stores brought its total number of locations to 652; the Montreal-based chain expects to open 50 more in the year ahead. (The Globe and Mail)

• MuchMusic has announced Lady Gaga as the first performer for the annual MuchMusic Video Awards, scheduled for June 19 in Toronto, with the expectation that she will do something to match wearing a dress of raw meat, or arriving on the red carpet in an egg. (Bell Media)

Taking a queue from the famous railway linking the U.K. to France, Vancouver is considering the construction of a $420-million underwater bicycle tunnel.

The "Funnel", a 125-metre long tunnel that would connect downtown Vancouver to southeast False Creek, is designed to be much more than a convenient route for local cyclists.

"The future is underground, below and away from those carbon-spewing Earth-killers we call automobiles," said James McElroy, a professor at Berkeley in California and a project consultant, in a Times Colonist story. "If you bore a tunnel correctly, with love and foresight, its allure is too great to resist."

According to a 52-page city report, the proposed tunnel would start at the south side of the Cambie Street Bridge, connecting with the seawall bike lane as it resurfaces in Coopers Park.

With a funding model combining municipal and provincial money with private donations, initial cost estimates range between $340 million and $420 million.

The tunnel is

MuchMusic has unveiled its long-overdue new branding and it doesn't have any room for the second part of its name.

The third major logo overhaul in the history of the channel, which launched as "The Nation's Music Station" in 1984 with a stylized "M," has replaced the planet design it used for the past 15 years.

Now, it is entirely focused on a basic four-letter word.

While the previous logo was also reduced to "Much," its legacy stretched back to when the channel was still dominated by music videos, not unlike how the reality show-focused MTV continued to identify itself as "Music Television" in the U.S. until February 2010.

For channel owner Bell Media, though, the transformation is also somewhat political.

Much was one of the first stations contemplated this week in a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing focused on the regulation of specialty channels.

The media giants have argued the licences, many whose conditions were developed a decade or two ago,

"Can a bank change?" asked the Bank of Montreal's virtual venture mbanx in 1996, in a commercial set to a 300-child chorus of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'."

A decade-and-a-half later, though, a growing number of financial institutions would be happy enough if you turned up with change of your own, especially if there's been little other motivation to step into a branch since the advent of online banking.

BMO announced this week that free coin-counting machines would be installed in all its new branches, along with select remodelled ones, which followed a report from The Globe and Mail that estimated to cost of devices at between $22,000 and $26,000 each.

Getting new customers through the door is a large part of the strategy. And, the demand to cash in the coins lying around every Canadian home is expected to skyrocket if the one-cent piece is discontinued from circulation.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is credited with starting the new wave of change machines, inspired by the

Halifax oval supporter John Gillis.The 400-metre skating oval built for the Canada Games will remain a permanent fixture on the Halifax Common after regional councillors voted to spend $5.7-million on the once temporary project.

The oval, which proved very popular during the winter, was given money to support required staff  for maintenance, including annual operating expenses of about $400,000.

Though councillors voted in favour, some remain concerned about the total costs, according to a Globe and Mail story.

Coun. Gloria McCluskey admires the popular outdoor facility, yet she's concerned local politicians are not mindful of the region's plans to save as much as $30-million over the next two years.

"We keep building and we keep adding and don't stop to think about the operating costs," she said in the story. "That's what has me worried."

But McCluskey's concerns go beyond spending. She points out those in distant, less affluent communities may not be able to afford the transportation costs, making the oval an