Key Grit MIA at campaign debrief

Also: Elliott's new gig, staffing up at Finance and Labour, Brown's competition, Science Table swan song, foreign-trained nurses incoming, and where's the beef

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The Science Table wants a strategy for dealing with long Covid as Ontario gives the go-ahead to speed up credentialing for foreign-trained nurses — but first, the Grits are getting together for an election post-mortem.

GRITS DEBRIEF — Card-carrying Liberals will gather on Saturday to debrief the June election.

It was a brutal showing for the unrecognized party, which only managed to grow their caucus by one, for a total of eight, and saw the resignation of leader STEVEN DEL DUCA, who’s now making a bid for Vaughan Mayor.

Who’s in: Two-time interim leader JOHN FRASER delivers a keynote at noon on Saturday at the Sheraton Centre Hotel in Toronto. There’s also a mystery health care announcement from rookie MPP ADIL SHAMJI (Don Valley East) at 1:45 p.m.

Who’s out: As we previously scooped, CHRISTINE MCMILLAN, the Liberals’ 2022 campaign director, won’t be at the big debrief session — which coincides with a meeting of the party’s provincial council.

McMillan says her family …