QUEEN’S PARK — Doug Ford has nearly doubled the number of parliamentary assistants giving 31 MPPs a 14 per cent pay hike while firing education and health care workers.

Doug Ford appointed 31 Conservative MPPs to be parliamentary assistants on Wednesday. The MPPs will each get an extra $16,300 on top of...

ELLIOT LAKE — NDP MPP Michael Mantha is calling out Sault Ste. Marie MPP Ross Romano for doing nothing to stop Doug Ford’s cuts to education, which are now poised to hurt students in catholic schools in Sault Ste. Marie, after 24 teachers were declared redundant — essentially receiving a pink slip — in the...

QUEEN’S PARK – The NDP is now calling on the Doug Ford Conservatives to recall the Standing Committee on Government Agencies, and give them the mandate to conduct a review of all Ford government appointees, past and current.

New Democrat MPP Marit Stiles, a member of the Government Agencies committee, says...

HAMILTON — Andrea Horwath and Hamilton’s NDP MPPs released the following statement in response to rising tensions in the wake of homophobic and hate-fueled attacks against those attending the Hamilton Pride celebrations:

“We are watching with deepening concern, as are many Hamiltonians, the escalating...

QUEEN’S PARK — France Gélinas, Ontario NDP Health critic, released the following statement in response to the Premier’s Council on Improving Health Care and Ending Hallway Medicine’s latest report:

“This report shows that Doug Ford is spending $1 million for Dr Rueben Devlin to put...

QUEEN’S PARK — Yet another sneaky appointment for friends and family, Doug Ford quietly appointed Dean French’s niece, Katherine Pal, to the Public Accountants Council.

The government did not announce French’s family member’s appointment with a news release when it was confirmed on...

New Democrats call on Conservative appointees to appear before committee

QUEEN’S PARK — In one of his first acts as Finance Minister, Rod Phillips appointed one of his major donors and long-time business partner Neil Selfe to the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO). Another long-time...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP House Leader Gilles Bisson released the following statement in response to reports that high-school students were billed about $1,500 for the clean-up of sidewalk chalk after a peaceful protest at Queen’s Park:

“It’s wrong to punish students who are speaking up for...

KAPUSKASING - À l’occasion des célébrations de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, le porte-parole du NPD en matière d’affaires francophones, M. Guy Bourgouin, a émis la déclaration suivante au nom du NPD :

« Les néo-démocrates de l’Ontario se joignent aux communautés francophones de la...

NDP calls for OSAP grants to be reinstated

QUEEN’S PARK — Chris Glover, Ontario NDP critic for Colleges and Universities, said it’s simply wrong for Doug Ford to plow ahead with cuts to OSAP — especially now, as students share their stories of the devastating consequences. Some of the many students...

QUEEN’S PARK — After cutting funding for education, health care and autism services in Northern Ontario, and across the province, Doug Ford was busted giving away six figure salaries in plum government appointments to his friends, said NDP Deputy Leader John Vanthof.

Two of the four...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP LGBTQ Issues critic Terence Kernaghan released the following statement in reaction to Doug Ford’s media comment on Tyler Albrecht’s social media:

“I understand Doug Ford has quietly called the slurs used by his agent-general appointee to New York ‘hurtful and...