QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Health, France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) and Shadow Minister for Labour Jamie West (Sudbury) questioned Health Minister Sylvia Jones about the recent layoff announcement at the North Bay Regional Health Centre.

“Speaker 72% of hospitals in Northern Ontario are...

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition Shadow Minister for Environment, Conservation and Parks Peter Tabuns (Toronto—Danforth) has reintroduced legislation to ensure that Ontario is prepared for future extreme weather events and disasters.

“Doug Ford and his Conservative government have failed to meet the...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Women’s Social and Economic Opportunity Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park) is introducing her Women in the Workforce plan; a motion aimed at ensuring economic security for Ontario women, and ending gender-based violence.

“Ontario is facing a jobs...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Finance Jessica Bell (University-Rosedale), and Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Catherine Fife (Waterloo), say the FAO’s new economic monitor shows what Ontario already knows - workers are being left behind while the Ford government...

QUEEN’S PARK – Shadow Minister for Long-Term Care, MPP Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls), says new FOI data lays out a brutal truth that families and frontline workers have been trying to get this government to face for years. Some long-term care homes are so understaffed that residents are going without basic care,...

QUEEN’S PARK – Northern NDP MPP Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) is reintroducing Chad’s Law, a law named after a resident in northern Ontario who narrowly survived a severe collision caused by a commercial truck crossing a double yellow line. Chad’s Law would make this dangerous maneuver illegal and...

LONDON – London MPPs Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), Peggy Sattler (London West), and Teresa Armstrong (London–Fanshawe), have released the following statement on reports of a white nationalist demonstration held on the Wortley Road overpass this...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario Ombudsman’s new report reveals the devastating impact of the Ford government’s failure to support adults with developmental disabilities. Shadow Minister for Children, Community and Social Services Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) says the findings confirm what she and countless families...

QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, has filed an ethics complaint against Minister David Piccini in relation to the ongoing controversy surrounding the Skills Development Fund (SDF) program.

Stiles’ call for an ethics probe comes after weeks of questions directed at Premier Ford and...

QUEEN’S PARK - Jurors have affirmed what Constance Lake First Nation (CLFN) leadership has been raising for decades, issuing 79 recommendations to confront the systemic failures that allowed blastomycosis spores to thrive and denied community members timely, culturally safe health care. NDP MPPs Guy Bourgouin...

QUEEN’S PARK — Marit Stiles, Leader of Ontario’s Official Opposition, has introduced an opposition motion calling on Doug Ford to protect Ontario’s renters. The Opposition Day motion calls for fairness in the Landlord Tenant Board to stop unfair evictions and above-guideline rent hikes. It also calls on the...

QUEEN’S PARK – After the fears of millions of Ontarians were realized by Ford and his conservatives through the passing of Bill 60, a bill that makes it easier to evict tenants and lets corporate landlords hike rents even higher, NDP Shadow Minister for housing MPP Catherine McKenney (Ottawa Centre) released the...