Duck and cover

Fission ambition

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DOUG FORD’s been busy playing principal, peacekeeper and power broker this week.

The latest: The government is sending financial investigators into school boards like a hall monitor hopped up on power as the PCs crack down on mismanagement. Oppo critics scoffed, saying the government would do better to properly fund education in next week’s budget.

Meanwhile, the Premier deftly sidestepped the political “bear trap” of weighing in on whether PIERRE POILIEVRE would have a better shot at nabbing a federal seat in Ontario rather than Alberta. And so long, interprovincial trade barriers. Let’s get to it.