QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Deputy Leader Sara Singh released the following statement in response to news that Gen. Rick Hillier (ret), who oversees the vaccine rollout in Ontario, has taken a second job boosting international sales for a defence company:

“Fixing and scaling up Ontario’s vaccine...

NIAGARA FALLS — Official Opposition NDP Workplace Health and Safety Critic Wayne Gates has released a statement after Ford’s Labour Minister McNaughton again refused to have the province guarantee paid sick days to prevent workers from taking COVID-19 to work:

“The Ford government has put...

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath made the following statement to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day:

QUEEN'S PARK — "On Jan. 27, the world honours the memory of the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust. It is a truth the world can never forget. The six million...

YORK SOUTH—WESTON — Faisal Hassan, MPP for York South—Weston and NDP Youth Engagement Critic, says on top of the Ontario NDP’s call for Doug Ford to pause collections and interest on student loans during the pandemic, the federal Minister of Employment and Social Development Ahmed Hussen needs to put a pause...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on Doug Ford to stop undermining public health experts who question the Ford government’s pandemic response. She released the following statement:

“There is a pattern of public health experts, doctors and scientists who are critical of...

HAMILTON — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in response to Doug Ford’s choice to hold an airport photo-op as it becomes clear that that the more contagious COVID-19 variant is already taking hold in Ontario and on the doorsteps of long-term care homes:

“While...

HAMILTON — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the NDP fully supports recommendations brought forward by the Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care, thanking them for their advocacy for seniors amid the COVID-19 pandemic and vowing to get profits out of care starting in 2022.

The group, which...

HAMILTON – Official Opposition Finance critic Sandy Shaw has released a statement in response to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), outlining the share of federal and provincial spending during the...

ETOBICOKE — The Ontario NDP received more than $2.5 million in donations in 2020 — just $400,000 shy of the governing PC Party and ahead of the Liberals, according to Elections Ontario’s figures for those parties.

The $2.5 million was collected through a whopping 90,000 individual donations made to the...

SIOUX LOOKOUT and KAPUSKASING - COVID-19 has broken through the lines of defence set up by First Nations, causing two northern communities to declare a state of emergency. Constance Lake and Ginoogaming need the Ford government to act now to help them to stop the spread, said NDP MPPs Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong), the...

HAMILTON — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath vowed to keep fighting to get rural municipalities the support they need to get through and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, in remarks today at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) 2021 Virtual...

QUEEN’S PARK — On Monday Doug Ford said there is no need to call in the military to provide relief at Roberta Place, or other long-term care homes in crisis.

“I was told we don't need them,” said Ford.

“Who is telling Doug Ford help isn’t needed?” asked long-term care critic Teresa...