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. Demand the toughest response, so he can point to it when criticized.

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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“A few lifetimes ago, when I lived in Calgary and was an ardent Flames fan, I claimed not to like the Oilers’ Wayne Gretzky very much.

We lampooned The Great One mercilessly. For example, my Calgary buddies and I called him “Whine Gripesky,” and we told mean jokes about him. (To wit: “How do you get Wayne Gretzky to go into the corners? Start a fight at centre ice.”)

That was good for a few laughs until August 1988, of course, when Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles, and he had a teary-eyed press conference to confirm that he was indeed leaving Canada for the United States. At the time, me and my Cowtown pals were a bit teary eyed, too. So, indeed, was the nation. The New Democrats demanded that the government block the trade, and Oilers owner Peter Pocklington was burned in effigy in Edmonton.

How could Gretzky leave us? Leaving Edmonton’s winters for sunny L.A.? Has he lost his mind?”

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But fret not, Conservatives!  Rocco Rossi can fix anything!

“[But] cracks in [P.C.] party unity are already starting to show, as an internal squabble between longtime Tory Norm Sterling and his libertarian colleague Randy Hillier gains steam.

Sterling, a former cabinet minister, has accused Hillier repeatedly of helping his friend Jack MacLaren usurp him in the Ottawa-area riding Sterling has held for 33 years.

MacLaren is a former president of the Ontario Landowners Association, a property-rights group dominated by rural activists that Hillier helped create.

The rift widened when Hillier’s friend, Tory MP Scott Reid, wrote a letter to a Toronto newspaper in December accusing Sterling of neglecting his constituents in Carleton-Mississippi Mills.”

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Just did an interview about this with NewsTalk 1010.  We talked a fair bit about my 1992 book about the country.

You’re unlikely to visit the place anytime soon; you’re not even sure you could spot it on a map.  Why should you care?

Here’s why.  All of the unrest inLibya and other places in the Arab world means volatility, and volatility means higher oil prices.

Summer 2011: not a good Summer to start pitching a new and improved Green Shift.

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