🔒 Doug Ford says his ‘absolutely swamped’ MPPs won’t campaign for Pierre Poilievre Read >

Okay, so what does all this mean? It means we are heading straight into a campaign, like this weekend. We’ll have a new government of some sort before the tulips pop in May.

So, not surprising then that the Buzz has some stuff on what’s to come.

Like the choice we all have to make. Making choices means asking questions and two old hands at this, Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan, had this piece of advice in the Ottawa Citizen:

Lynch and Deegan: Six questions federal candidates had better have answers to Read >

Back to the main players in the campaign. 

Here are two good pieces setting the stage for the weeks ahead. First here’s Max Fawcett in the National Observer on the latest with Pierre Poilievre:

Pierre Poilievre can't escape Donald Trump Read >

Now try this one from former Stephen Harper Communications Director, Andrew MacDougall, in the Toronto Star on Mark Carney.

Andrew lives and works in London now, so he had a front row seat to the new PM’s first overseas trip:

🔒 Andrew Macdougall: It's no wonder Mark Carney looked at ease in the U.K. Read >

Someone who is not running for federal politics, but is attracting a lot of attention south of the border, is Doug Ford. 

Look at this latest Ford profile Americans are reading:

‘Captain Canada’ Takes On Trump Read >

Still on the premier front, Danielle Smith was in the headlines as the campaign begins with a threat… a list of demands for whoever wins to comply with or face a national unity crisis.

Jack Farrell at the Canadian Press wrote this:

Smith meets Carney, demands oil policy changes and warns national unity at stake Read >

Okay, forget the election. You know what also starts in the next few days? Baseball. 

And few people like baseball more than Tim Harper. For years he prowled the political beat in Canada, but as good as he was, and he was good, you knew that every spring there was one thing really on his mind. Baseball. Now retired he still churns out the odd piece on politics and yes, on baseball. But this week’s baseball piece from Tim is different:

🔒 We visit Florida every March to watch the Jays at spring training—but Donald Trump changed all that Read >

Guess what? 

No surprise here, but it’s a shock to all the conspiracy theorists who have dined out on this story for 62 years now. Lee Harvey Oswald still did it. Alone. Nothing to dispute that in the thousands of documents held secret for all these years but released this week.  But they must keep the mystery going – there seems to be one document missing:

The crucial JFK file that was not released and still remains secret Read >

Remember shop classes?

Guys like me do. I remember using hammers and pliers and saws, welding and plumbing. But shop classes stopped many years ago. Now it seems they may be coming back. Why? Because AI, as amazing as it is, can’t replace those basic shop skills:

🔒 The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future Read >

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”  

Damn, Churchill had such a way with words and none more powerful than that sentence honouring the Battle of Britain pilots who defeated the Nazi fliers in those summer months of 1940. Now, almost eighty-five years later, the last of the “so few” passed away this week.

'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies Read >