Rick has a sleepover at 24 Sussex Drive with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Harper's kids, Ben and Rachel. Also: Rick goes all Top Gun in a CF-18 and roars across the prairies faster than the speed of sound.

• Ship-jumping sailors spook Arctic port
  CHURCHILL, MAN. — The mayor of Churchill, Man., is calling for more security at the northern port after two Turkish sailors trying to enter the country illegally were nabbed by a ticket clerk at the town train station.
  -- Globe and Mail, Monday, October 30, 2006
  
  
• Let sleeping 'dog' lie, Speaker rules
  Speaker of the House Peter Milliken will not rule on whether Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay referred to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach as a dog.
  -- CBC.ca, Monday, October 30, 2006
  
  
• Liberal delegates scramble to foot bills
  OTTAWA — To finance his way to the Liberal Party convention, Dan Arnold is pooling his resources, including those coming from a Conservative government. Mr. Arnold has earmarked the $400 payout every Albertan received from their Tory government for his trip to Montreal to attend the federal leadership race grand finale in December.
  -- Globe and Mail, Monday, October 30, 2006
  
  
• We must pay now to avoid climate disaster, says Blair
  Tony Blair today said that the world was facing "nothing more serious, more urgent, or more demanding of leadership" than climate change and that Britons must be prepared to pay now to avoid future disaster.
  -- Guardian Unlimited, Monday, October 30, 2006
  
  
• The new mating call...
  TOKYO — Is it a phone call, a text message or simply time to make love? A new mobile phone available through Japan's NTT DoCoMo can ring to let would-be mothers know when they reach the most fertile part of their monthly reproductive cycles.
  -- Reuters, Monday, October 30, 2006