Jill Promoli
Peel Region trustee and illness-prevention advocate. Her two-year-old son Jude died in 2016 of influenza B after it swept through his sister's kindergarten class.
Connected Scandals
A leaked Ministry of Education ad script obtained by The Trillium shows actors playing parents criticizing teacher unions over sick days and doctor's notes, produced while five major education unions have suspended bargaining. Education Minister Paul Calandra defended the campaign; ETFO's president called it a taxpayer-funded smear campaign.
Peel Region trustee and illness-prevention advocate who said she is troubled by greater barriers to staying home sick — the sick-note and sick-day-cap policy the leaked ad script promotes: "You'll have more people getting sick... it increases the burden that we place on our hospitals." Her two-year-old son Jude died of influenza B in 2016 after it swept through his sister's kindergarten class; he developed a low-grade fever on a Friday morning and died that afternoon.