Jesmeen Gill

6 days 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.

2 months ago | 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.