SIOUX LOOKOUT – Sol Mamakwa, NDP Official Opposition critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, sent the following open letter to Ontario’s education minister requesting urgent support for Matawa First Nations COVID-19 Emergency Education Response Plan.

The Ford government has still not provided...

TORONTO — University Rosedale MPP and NDP critic for Transit Jessica Bell says Doug Ford is giving himself the unprecedented power to take land without so much as a hearing.

“Ford is giving himself unprecedented authority to expropriate, sell, and build on land, running roughshod over municipal planning...

WINDSOR – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) has released a statement following the end of the third-shift at the Chrysler assembly plant in Windsor on July 10:

“After a year of uncertainty, hundreds of workers on the third shift at Chrysler are losing their jobs today. Feeder plants in...

Government’s hybrid model shaping up to be a disaster

QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP is calling on the Ford government to prioritize childcare and schools in their economic recovery plans, lining up more teachers, more education workers and more classroom spaces so all students can go back to school full-time...

ELLIOT LAKE - Algoma-Manitoulin NDP MPP Michael Mantha released the following statement following news of the closure of the early learning child care centre at Sault College due to financial difficulties:

“Young families are already worried about how to get back to work and school as we...

DURHAM — Oshawa NDP MPP Jennifer French asked the Ford government when it will start serving the needs of seniors, rather than the interests of for-profit long-term care companies, noting that Treasury Board president Peter Bethlenfalvy reportedly denied funding requests to protect seniors from COVID-19 even as a...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in response to a Ford government omnibus bill tabled Wednesday:

“The omnibus bill the Ford Conservatives introduced today does nothing at all to help families, devastated long-term care homes, small businesses,...

QUEEN’S PARK - Algoma-Manitoulin NDP MPP, Michael Mantha, took a local Personal Support Worker’s fight for pandemic pay straight to Doug Ford during question period on Wednesday, calling for health care and long term-care workers to be given paid sick days every year.

“One of my constituents, Nancy Riley...

NDP commits to passing legislation requiring air conditioning in nursing homes today

QUEEN’S PARK — A day after Doug Ford made the dubious claim that he didn’t know about the sweltering conditions in long-term care, Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on his government to introduce a...

Ottawa Centre MPP urges Ford to release plan for students with disabilities as schools reopen

OTTAWA — Ottawa Centre MPP and NDP critic for Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities Joel Harden called on Doug Ford to release a concrete plan to ensure that the learning needs of students with disabilities...

WINDSOR – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) MPP, Official Opposition Critic for Community and Social Services, released the following statement on top-up payments for people receiving Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) or Ontario Works (OW), which the Ford government is planning to remove at the end of...

NDP MPP tables legislation to establish an independent Seniors’ Advocate for Ontario

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) has tabled a new private member’s bill to establish a Seniors’ Advocate for Ontario for the very first time, to be an independent voice for seniors and...