TORONTO - A downtown Hamilton riding held for many years by former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is expected to remain in the party’s hands after ...
TORONTO - A downtown Hamilton riding held for many years by former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is expected to remain in the party’s hands after a byelection Thursday, despite their candidate being put on the defensive over some of her activism.
The association charged that Jama has been “associated with” groups that have targeted Israel and supports “anti-Semitic causes.” Jama said some of the criticism centres around her association with student groups “running Israeli Apartheid week on campus 10 years ago.” “Sarah is speaking up on behalf of a lot of her constituents every day, and is known to be a strong advocate against violence and racism,” Stiles said at an unrelated press conference.Stiles said last week that Jama is a well-known human rights advocate who has always stood up against hate, anti-Semitism and racism.
“It doesn’t seem to have made its way into community conversations in a large sort of way. So it doesn’t seem, to me, to be shifting things tremendously.” Pike, the Liberal candidate in this week’s byelection, said she sees this race as more open than in 2018, when she ran against Horwath in the provincial election.
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