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Jessica Smith Cross

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

Invoking her father's free-trade legacy, Caroline Mulroney endorses Pierre Poilievre

Invoking her father's free-trade legacy, Caroline Mulroney endorses Pierre Poilievre

Brian Mulroney, who negotiated the original North American Free Trade Agreement, passed away last year
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Back pay for repealed wage-freeze law boosts teachers on Sunshine List

Back pay for repealed wage-freeze law boosts teachers on Sunshine List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
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Nurses rally for patient ratios ahead of arbitration

Nurses rally for patient ratios ahead of arbitration

The Ford government shot down a nursing ratio bill last year
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'The status quo is no longer an option': hospital association warns of aging population

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

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

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

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
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Supreme Court ruling on third-party ads law coming Friday

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

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

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
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