…that’s what Tim Hudak’s PCs want. What does it mean for you?

• Higher drug prices, in perpetuity, as Big Pharma will win eternal patent protections
• The loss of anti-pollution rules
• The end of new parks and the potential elimination of existing parks
• Elimination of zoning rules designed to prevent neighbourhoods from being ruined – noise bylaws, giant homes, etc.
• Friction with aboriginal peoples, with land claims being overturned and challenged
• Discrimination against women in divorce settlements
• The challenge of labour laws, and potential end to collective bargaining
• The loss of shorelines, and commercialization of public lands

It’s crazy. And it raises the key question: where does Tim Hudak stand?  Is the No Plan Man© now, fully, a hostage of a cabal of lawless rural extremists?

More here and here.

Hillier, the real PC leader, in handcuffs at an OLA protest.

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Oh, snap! Heh.

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Analysis by the pollster who found that:

“Although the survey doesn’t have direct evidence on this point, it is possible that this recoil effect, which is a recurring pattern of the past five years, was magnified by the Bev Oda affair. In a familiar pattern of voter recoil and government missteps, the tantalizing majority of a fortnight ago has evaporated into the narrow rut advantage of the last year. Zap! You’ve been Odasized!”

“Odasized.” I thought that was funny. Good one.

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Which I’ve researched, to no avail:

1. Is sleepwalking considered a disability within the meaning of the provincial human rights codes?

2. If it is a disability, and a school prohibits a child from participating in the curriculum (eg. overnight field trips, etc.) because of it, is there an action that can be brought?

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“Seeking the Tory colours is Jack MacLaren, just-departed president of the Ontario Landowners Association, a property-rights group that can agitate with the best of them.

He means business, with a campaign that started a full year ago and membership sales in the hundreds, and he is part of what is shaping up as a perfect storm for Sterling -his supposed allies are turning against him.

The rift erupted into public view in December, when the MP from the neighbouring riding, Scott Reid, a fellow Conservative, wrote a stinging letter to a Toronto newspaper.

He said Sterling was so “neglectful” of riding issues that the federal member’s staff had to intervene to take up the slack. The MP also went on to praise sitting MPP Randy Hillier, the philosophical father of the OLA who now shared a riding and offices with him.

Loyalty was now out the window; this was out-andout war.

Only a fool could fail to see what was happening. MacLaren and Hillier are friends and soulmates from way back -their children even married, their ridings are neighbours -with Reid thrown in a sideline agitator. It was Tories eating Tories.

The nomination meeting should be held at the end of March. It promises to be a circus.“

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He now realizes that meeting with Qadaffi was a huge, huge mistake. Can’t admit that. So, what to do?

Dial up the reaction.

He’s done this before. Said no to ballistic missile defence, was worried how the Americans would react. So he sent us to the most dangerous part of Afghanistan, so he could point to it when criticized.

The more things stay the same, the more they stay the same.

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Check this out: two eldest sons and I were working on their homework yesterday, pre-hockey game.  One of them pulls out a big Cadbury Dairy Milk bar he bought at a convenience store near the Distillery District.  Takes a chunk out of it, peels back the wrapper, and this what he sees.

It’s kind of funny, but it also got us wondering about what else may be tumbling out of Cadbury workers’ pockets into the big vats of chocolate.  Any suggestions about what to do?

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(We lost.)

I was interviewed about Libya earlier today by CITY-TV. Anyone see it?

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When you are pushing for a “merger” – one which, best case, is of dubious value to all but a few very rich people – it’s usually not a good idea not to send out a silver-spoon conservative to snipe at a street-smart Liberal. Particularly a Liberal like Dwight Duncan.

This Caldwell character may have sunk the TSX deal all on his own.  Congratulations, genius.

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Get rid of the old crew, and get a new crew to move up in the polls.

How’s that new crew working out for you, anyway?

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