QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Jennifer French, NDP critic for Transportation and Highways, said Doug Ford needs to tell Ontarians how he’s going to handle the licence plate problem he created. The new PC Party blue plates are under review because they can’t be read under some lighting conditions, but the existing white...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Doug Ford government is gutting OW and ODSP employment services with its new scheme to contract out the program to multinational companies — one of which is a for-profit corporation — and the Ontario NDP is worried that will mean fewer Ontarians successfully supported into the job or...

QUEEN’S PARK — Suze Morrison, Ontario NDP critic for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Response, issued the following statement in recognition of the annual Women’s Memorial March for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls:

“Today we recognize the annual Women’s Memorial March...

QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Sol Mamakwa, the Official Opposition critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, released the following statement in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and supporting actions throughout the nation:

“The recent arrests by the RCMP in Wet’suwet’en Nation...

Ontario families deserve to know who is funding shadowy ad campaign

QUEEN’S PARK — Taras Natyshak, the Official Opposition New Democrats’ critic for Ethics and Accountability, is calling for Ford-appointed LCBO board member Quinto Annibale to return to the Government Agencies committee for questioning...

QUEENS PARK — In a letter to Elections Ontario, MPP Peter Tabuns is calling for an investigation into possible collusion between Doug Ford’s government and the Vaughan-area Conservatives who financed “Vaughan Working Families” ads attacking teachers in major newspapers last weekend.

“Prominent...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Culture and Women’s Issues critic Jill Andrew (Toronto-St. Paul’s) released the following statement renewing her call for the Doug Ford government to pass her bill (Bill 61) to recognize the first week of February as Eating Disorders Awareness Week:

“Ontario could be...

QUEEN’S PARK — Peter Tabuns, Official Opposition NDP critic for Energy and the Climate Crisis, says a new report shows that under the Doug Ford Conservatives, the climate gains made by eliminating coal-fired power plants will be wiped out.

By 2023, Ontario will have a shortfall in energy generation,...

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on Doug Ford to return public health to 2019 funding levels, and commit to undertaking a review of the novel coronavirus outbreak response to determine future provincial funding levels.

“I am so grateful to public health unit staff,...

QUEEN’S PARK — Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, is calling on Doug Ford to hit the reset button on education negotiations by removing Education Minister Stephen Lecce, and giving a new minister a new mandate — one that doesn’t include cuts to education.

“As premier, the...

Ads appear to violate political advertising law

QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP has called on Elections Ontario to investigate advertising by a group calling itself “Vaughan Working Families.” The anonymous group placed full-page political advertisements that attack teachers in weekend newspapers — ads which...

QUEEN’S PARK — Infrastructure Ontario’s latest market update reveals an indefinite delay to the Thunder Bay Correctional Complex, meaning that the safety of Thunder Bay families, correctional workers and inmates is being kicked down the road, again.

The Request for Proposals for the Thunder Bay...