Philippe Lagassé has an excellent primer on the Speech from the Throne, to be delivered by King Charles III on Tuesday 27 May, in the National Post this week.

We’ll find out tomorrow if that rumour about a “tiered” federal cabinet is true.

That adage about not asking a question that you can’t bear to hear the answer to applies just as much to national referenda (ask Britain). If such questions must be asked, safest of all to make them the focus of an election result.

I very much hope that Fareed Zakaria is wrong in the Washington Post about “the makings of a perfect storm in the global economy” but I doubt he will be.

Michael Lewis’s appearance on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s podcast, Armchair Expert, is the most fun that I listened to all week.