Second time's the charm in Scarborough?

And Liberals lock in

Q&A: FATIMA SHABAN GOES FOR ROUND II

There’s a chest-high stack of unopened energy drinks next to a giant electoral map in FATIMA SHABAN’s campaign office on Kingston Road — and with the writ for the Scarborough Southwest byelection dropping tomorrow, her campaign team will likely start crushing them by the caseload.

Premier DOUG FORD has to trigger the SSW byelection tomorrow, making E-Day September 3.

Lay of the land: Scarborough Southwest has been Orange territory since 2018, when former NDP deputy leader DOLY BEGUM snatched what had long been a reliable Grit stronghold. But Begum’s defection to the federal Liberal arena earlier this year put the seat in play, and put Official Oppo Leader MARIT STILES’s ground game to an early test.

I’ll set the table tomorrow for what’s widely expected to be a hat trick of byelection calls, along with York-Simcoe and Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. But today, let’s ease back into the post-holiday week with an inside look at the NDP’s battle plan in the e…