QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multiculturalism Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park) is continuing her call for Premier Doug Ford to fix the broken Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP).

Ford attempted to shift the blame to the federal government yesterday, offering no...

QUEEN’S PARK - The Official Opposition demanded clear answers from the Minister of Natural Resources on whether the government will take immediate steps to heat the Terrace Bay mill and protect both workers and the surrounding community. NDP MPPs Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) and Guy Bourgouin...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP has released 121 recommendations charting a path to end Ontario’s intimate partner violence (IPV) epidemic. These recommendations are part of their dissenting report, following the government’s IPV report.

“Survivors and experts are tired of study after study with no...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Shadow Minister for Education MPP Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West – Nepean) was joined by parents, students, educators and union leaders, to urge the Ford government to stop ignoring the reality in our classrooms and invest in our children’s future:

“Our kids are struggling,” said...

QUEEN’S PARK — The holidays are on the horizon, but tenants on both Triller and Spencer Avenues in Toronto are fighting to keep a roof over their heads. Their wealthy corporate landlord — Starlight — is hitting them with an above-guideline eight per cent rent increase, despite deplorable living...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPP Peggy Sattler has re-introduced the Safe Night Out Act, along with co-sponsors MPP Jamie West, MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, and MPP Alexa Gilmour. The bill would require trauma-informed, evidence-based sexual violence prevention training in every licensed bar and nightclub; strengthen...

LONDON — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Small Business, Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), pressed the Premier in Question Period today to finally recognize the deepening crisis in Ontario’s downtowns as a state of emergency and to provide municipalities with the urgent resources they need.

“What...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario’s Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles is calling on Doug Ford to fire his Minister of Labour, David Piccini, for gross mismanagement of the Skills Development Fund program, after news broke that the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has opened an investigation related to Keel Digital...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP shadow minister for Seniors & Accessibility/WSIB & Injured Workers, MPP Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North), has tabled Bill 86, an act to restore the Meredith Act (Fair Compensation for Injured Workers) with co-sponsors MPP Jamie West (Sudbury) and MPP Wayne Gates (Niagara...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) sounded off on Doug Ford and Metrolinx for once again failing to provide transparency on the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT.

“It’s clear that the Minister or the Premier don’t have a timeline for the...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPPs Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre), France Gélinas (Nickel Belt), and Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest), released the following statement in response to the court decision granting international medical graduates temporary access to the first round of residency...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Catherine Fife (Waterloo) is responding to the new jobs report, which show steep losses across key sectors and clear signs that workers are being left behind under the Ford...