As head chef at Chez Piggy restaurant, Ian Arthur has been cooking delicious meals for the people of Kingston for almost a decade. Now, he’s looking to give back to the community in a different way.

“I’ve always been interested in politics from the time I was a little kid,” says Arthur, who studied political science and international development at Trent University before embarking on a career as a chef. “I always thought it was something that I would like to do eventually.”

So the 32-year-old threw his hat into the ring for the local Kingston and the Islands provincial NDP nomination; the vote is expected to take place sometime in late autumn.

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Arthur describes himself as an “economic environmentalist” and hopes to bring more of an environmental angle to the discussion. He grew up near Lyndhurst, where his parents ran one of the area’s first organic commercial market gardens.