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BAINS BUZZ

NAVDEEP BAINS is making waves in the race for provincial leader.

The Star and others are now reporting what my sources have been buzzing about for weeks — that the ex-Liberal cabinet minister is seriously considering mounting a bid for OLP captain.

“Sources close to the one-time industry and science minister say his phone has been ‘blowing up’ with Liberals urging him to run provincially,” per the Star.

Bains’s would-be opponents are watching his next move closely.

One high-level provincial operative was overheard telling anyone who would listen at last weekend’s federal convention that Bains apparently already has some rivals shaking in their boots.

The operative told some insiders (who then told me) that another name being floated around in Liberal circles, MARK SAKAMOTO, would run “only if” Bains didn’t — suggesting the former MP for Mississauga—Malton would be a heavyweight contender in a crowded field that has been dominated b…