FALLOUT FROM THE RECENT PROVINCIAL ELECTION
We are going to miss you, Jill! By Stephen Weir The votes have been tallied, the seats in the Ontario Legislature have been assigned, and the provincial parliament is set to resume at the end of this month.While much of the provincial news these days revolves around Trump’s tariffs, one important piece of Caribbean-Canadian election news has not received much attention: Dominican-Canadian Jill Andrew has lost her seat. Andrew’s defeat in Toronto–St. Paul’s, after serving eight years as an NDP MPP, returns the riding to the Liberals.Andrew finished second in the race with 13,524 votes, while newly elected Liberal MPP Stephanie Smyth secured victory with 17,421 votes. Progressive Conservative candidate Riley Braunstein, a self-described “leader in stakeholder relations and government operations,” placed third.In 2018, Andrew made history as the first queer Black MPP elected to the Ontario Legislature. At the time of the election call, she was the Official Opposition Critic for Cult...