A former Nova Scotia NDP candidate is now running as an independent.
Tammy Jakeman was running as an NDP MLA for the Eastern Passage district when she came under fire for some of her social media posts. On Nov. 9, the provincial NDP said Jakeman was no longer the party’s candidate in the Eastern Passage district.
This came after the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs issued a news release the day before, which included pictures of two posts by an account bearing Jakeman’s name on social media.
One, from November 2023, responds to a World Children’s Day post from the Auschwitz Memorial by saying that children in Gaza will die because “Israel is obsessed with killing all Hamas, regardless of the human expenses.” In another, also from 2023, the same Jakeman account retweets a post that said …