And you thought we were getting mixed messages from the Trump travelling show.

During a local television supper-hour newscast — yes, I proudly still subscribe to appointment television — two stories made me scratch, yet again, my balding head.

The first story shames the provincial government.

Three weeks ago, educational assistants and other important provincial employees went out on strike.

The bottom line for me is this: countless kids with disabilities are not going to school because people help them — sometimes with the most personal bodily functions — while learning, while being with their friends, while going to school.

The TV news story was about a lawsuit. A few parents of kids with disability are taking the province to court, as they should, for not providing their........

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