Jessica Smith Cross

Jessica Smith Cross began her career in local news, reporting for Metro newspapers in five Canadian cities, as well as for CTV, the Guelph Mercury and the Turtle Island News. She made the leap to political journalism in 2016 but frequently looks back. Prior to the Trillium, she was the editor-in-chief of iPolitics and Queen's Park Briefing.

Recent Work by Jessica

Back pay for repealed wage-freeze law boosts teachers on Sunshine List

Tens of thousands of teachers show major compensation increases from 2023 to 2024 due to one-time bumps from back pay

Mar 28, 2025 3:13 PM Read more >

Nurses rally for patient ratios ahead of arbitration

The Ford government shot down a nursing ratio bill last year

Mar 20, 2025 3:27 PM Read more >

'The status quo is no longer an option': hospital association warns of aging population

The trade war adds to uncertainty in Ontario's health-care sector, the hospital association says

Mar 14, 2025 4:55 PM Read more >

D.C. trade meeting ‘productive,’ ‘positive,’ another scheduled: Ford

The Ontario premier emerged sounding optimistic, even as the U.S. president has used increasingly dismissive language about him in recent days

Mar 13, 2025 3:40 PM Read more >

Doug Ford's target in the trade war: Americans' kitchen tables

By taxing their power and buying his way onto their TV screens, Ford says he's taking the fight to the American people

Mar 10, 2025 4:35 PM Read more >

Supreme Court strikes down Ford government’s third-party political ads law

Restrictions on third-party advertising ahead of elections let political parties ‘drown out’ other groups such as unions: top court

Mar 7, 2025 9:52 AM Read more >

Supreme Court ruling on third-party ads law coming Friday

The law limits how much unions and other groups can spend on political advertising in the year before a scheduled election campaign

Mar 6, 2025 4:51 PM Read more >

30-day reprieve on auto tariffs 'concerns me': Doug Ford

Ontario's premier says he's declining to tone down the language he's using in the trade war

Mar 5, 2025 2:45 PM Read more >

Ford promises 'fight to the (economic) death' over U.S. tariffs

And a recent poll finds support for following through on his threat to cancel the Starlink deal

Mar 3, 2025 4:37 PM Read more >

Ontario’s former top economist would give one party an ‘F’ in fiscal transparency

A former chief economist for the province evaluated the political party's platforms on how clear they're being on what their promises would cost and how they'd pay for them

Feb 25, 2025 3:15 PM Read more >

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