QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) released the following statement after MPPs voted in favour of his motion to protect the rights of family caregivers and their loved ones living in care homes:

“I am delighted that all parties have joined us in supporting Motion 129,...

SAULT STE. MARIE — Michele McCleave-Kennedy, the NDP Candidate for Sault Ste. Marie, is backing the local Chamber of Commerce’s call for broadband support in Ontario’s upcoming budget — saying it’s a long-held NDP priority that would help local families and small businesses get through the pandemic and...

SUDBURY- MPP Jamie West hosted a community event Wednesday night with over 200 people from Sudbury and across northern Ontario calling on Doug Ford and the minister for colleges and universities, Ross Romano, to step up and support Laurentian University during its Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)...

No asymptomatic testing is being done in any school in the region

WINDSOR – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) grilled the premier Thursday on why the Ford government has failed to provide asymptomatic testing for schools in Windsor-Essex and is choosing not to invest in the measures that public health...

QUEEN’S PARK – Doug Ford made two claims Thursday that are wrong.

Claim one: Ontario leads Canada for vaccine distribution

Ontario is in seventh place when it comes to per capita provincial vaccine distribution, according to all vaccine trackers, including those from CTV, the Globe...

NDP responds to shocking FAO report

QUEEN'S PARK -- The Ontario's NDP's Housing and Tenant Rights critic Jessica Bell and Poverty and Homelessness critic Rima Berns-McGown made this statement in response to the Financial Accountability Office's report, released Thursday, on the state of...

QUEEN’S PARK - It’s time for the Ford government to make birth certificates and Ontario’s basic photo identification card, free of cost, said NDP MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell (Thunder Bay – Atikokan) who presented her bill to eliminate ID fees during a zoom press conference on Thursday.

“During this...

SIOUX LOOKOUT – NDP critic for Indigenous and Treaty Relations Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) has released a statement in response to the Ford government’s sudden decision to close 26 youth justice facilities: “The abrupt closure of 26 youth justice centres is horrifying and dangerous. Many of these centres are in...

SIOUX LOOKOUT – NDP critic for Indigenous and Treaty Relations Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) has released a statement in response to the Ford government’s sudden decision to close 26 youth justice facilities:

“The abrupt closure of 26 youth justice centres is horrifying and dangerous. Many...

QUEEN’S PARK – Premier Doug Ford has repeated, yet again, the false notion that Ontario is leading Canada’s vaccine rollout. The data shows otherwise.

CTV News and others tracking vaccine rollout show Ontario remains the province in seventh place, and tenth place including Canada’s territories, in...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ford government and Brampton PC MPPs voted down an NDP motion for paid sick days for Brampton workers put forward by NDP Deputy Leader Sara Singh on Wednesday in the legislature.

“Workers in Brampton have been essential throughout this pandemic, and they need paid sick days,” said MPP...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the Ford government to include disproportionately-impacted neighbourhoods in the vaccine priority list, as well as adults with serious underlying health conditions.

“Vaccines are the light at the end of a very long tunnel,” said...