Jesmeen Gill

1 month ago | collingwoodtoday.ca | Sneh Duggal |Jesmeen Gill

More than 25,000 students across Ontario have been suspended this school year due to out-of-date vaccination records, according to data collected by The Trillium. The suspensions reflect totals so far in areas covered by just 18 of the province’s 29 public health units. The other 11 didn’t respond to The Trillium’s request, or didn’t yet have complete data for the current school year.

1 month ago | thetrillium.ca | Charlie Pinkerton |Jesmeen Gill

Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday denied having any knowledge about the owners of a dump in Dresden that his government is offering a lifeline to, and that now could become the subject of an ethics investigation. Through Bill 5, Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are looking to exempt the landfill from an environmental assessment they promised last year, just before a provincial byelection was held to elect a new MPP in the riding, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex.

1 month ago | thetrillium.ca | Charlie Pinkerton |Jesmeen Gill

Weeks before last year’s byelection in Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, Ontario’s environment minister offered major relief to many local voters: the Ford government would halt controversial expansion plans for a dump in a town in the riding by requiring an examination of its environmental impacts. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives then ran a candidate in the byelection who was on record opposing the expansion of the Dresden landfill, and he won.

Feb 24, 2025 | nationalobserver.com | Jesmeen Gill |Chris Hatch |Rory White

Jagmeet Singh says he's "absolutely" the right person to lead the New Democrats into the next election despite the party's drop in the polls. A recent Leger poll puts the NDP at just 14 per cent support — and suggests that support would drop to 12 per cent with Mark Carney as Liberal leader. At a health care conference in Ottawa on Monday, Singh was asked if he's still the right leader for the party. “So if you want to defend health care, I'm your guy.