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Spring Fling
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Queen’s Park is buzzing about PA picks, salty quips, and an $11-billion tariff-fighting plan — but first, I’ve got details on the hottest ticket in town: Spring Fling!
SAVE THE DATE — The Queen’s Park Press Gallery’s annual shindig for a good cause is returning to Hart House on May 14 at 6:30 p.m. It’s a chance for politicians, staff and everyone else who works in and around the Legislature to let their hair down and hear candid (often knee-slapping) speeches from party leaders at this totally off-the-record event. Tickets will be available soon, and you can reserve them with your favourite member of the Press Gallery, including yours truly. Come see me in Room 476 (fourth floor of the East Wing), or just reply to this email.
PUNCHLINE POLITICS — DOUG FORD is brushing off MARK CARNEY’s crack about the Premier’s frequent cameos on Fox News amid the tariff war. But others aren’t so forgiving.
What Carney said: At a campaign stop, Carney had joked about fighting Americans b…