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Experts say navigating a pandemic humanized Ontario's premier. Shawn Jeffords, Canadian Press  | Updated December 26, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a press conference at Queen's Park during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Dec. 21, 2020. TORONTO — Doug Ford wants people to hold on just a little longer. Ontario’s populist premier speaks softly into the camera at a recent news conference, his tone subdued, almost pleading. He says he knows people have “COVID fatigue,” but there is a vaccine. The economy will recover. The province will bounce back. “We ...

Christopher Reynolds NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick December 19, 2020 - 3:00 AM OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, the NDP leader has his elbows up to hold ground for the traditional party of labour. At first glance, that ground may seem shaky. It sits within a minority Parliament where Singh wa...

Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf by Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press Posted Dec 19, 2020 6:00 am EDT Last Updated Dec 19, 2020 at 6:12 am EDT OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, the NDP leader has his elbows up to hold ground for the traditional party of labour. At first glance, that ground may seem shaky. It sits within a minority Parliament where Singh was cornered into proppin...