As 2025 comes to an end, we look back at a tumultuous year in Ontario politics.
This year, legislators braved a snap election, lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs to Trump’s tariffs and fought with Indigenous leaders over land rights to accelerate development projects, an attempt to repair a shaken economy, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.
Local journalist Mia Johnson sits down with NDP finance critic Jessica Bell, who says the economy continues to struggle. She says, with growing rates of unemployment, particularly among youth, and government handouts to privately-owned conglomerates, Ford’s strategy isn’t working. So what is?
Bell has been involved politically for over seven years, she was elected as the NDP candidate for University-Rosedale in 2018.