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The political dominoes continue to fall. First Mark Carney called a Toronto byelection. Which, according to some sources, led him to kill the island airport expansion. Which, according to some sources, led Doug Ford to believe Carney had violated a secret quid-pro-quo deal they had. Which now leads to Ford’s caucus coming out guns blazing against the Alto high-speed rail project. More on that recent development in just a moment.








