QUEEN'S PARK — NDP Youth Opportunities critic Faisal Hassan (York South—Weston) urged the Ford government to ensure young people in custody are given opportunities to pursue an education, following a Canadian Civil Liberties Association report that finds many youth in detention are denied access to formal...

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath put the needs of Ontarians at the top of the agenda this legislative session while Premier Doug Ford handed out favours to his buddies and emboldened anti-vaxxers.

“We’re 20 months into COVID-19. More than 10,000 people have lost their lives to...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling for the broad and urgent roll out of free rapid COVID tests to all Ontarians.

Horwath’s call echoes the advice coming from experts and takes on new urgency following worrying new modeling from Ontario’s Science Table.

“We...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Labour critic Peggy Sattler (London West) released the following statement in response to the Ford government extending its paid sick day program, but adding no additional days, leaving workers with only three sick days for 16 months:

“Workers should not be forced to...

QUEEN’S PARK – After more than three years of Doug Ford’s cuts to French language services, the results are devastating, said Guy Bourgouin, NDP critic for Francophone Affairs and France Gélinas, NDP MPP for Nickel Belt, responding to the release of the second annual report of the French language Services Unit...

HAMILTON — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the fact that student personal support workers (PSW) say they’ve been misled and are dropping out is another troubling sign Premier Doug Ford isn’t going to increase staff in long-term care. According to an Ottawa Citizenreport a government-funded private career college...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Finance critic Catherine Fife released the following statement in response to a new Financial Accountability Office (FAO) report on the financial impacts of climate change on public infrastructure:

“Today’s FAO report shows that the costs of doing nothing are much...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP MPP Jessica Bell (University–Rosedale) will table a new bill Tuesday to enshrine Mount Pleasant Cemeteries as a public trust to prevent the multi-billion-dollar asset from permanently slipping into private ownership.

"Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a treasured site in Toronto's...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Guy Bourgouin held an online press conference on Tuesday to reintroduce his private member’s bill to improve maintenance standards and make winter driving safer on Northern Ontario’s main Highways 11 and 17. Bourgouin’s bill would make it the law that the province must clear the roads...

TORONTO — The NDP’s critic for Housing Jessica Bell (University-Rosedale) says Doug Ford's decision to appoint a multi-millionaire banker as the chair of his Housing Affordability Task Force adds insult to injury. Bell released the following statement:

"Doug Ford has had over three...

QUEEN'S PARK — NDP MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul's) raised during question period Monday that the government's requirement for people renewing their OHIP card online to have an Ontario driver's license is both inconvenient and discriminatory towards a lot of Ontarians — including some people...

QUEEN’S PARK — Bhutila Karpoche, MPP for Parkdale-High Park, will table her private member’s bill Monday calling for Ontario to establish a study on the four-day work week.

The bill seeks to establish the Four-Day Work Week Commission, which would develop recommendations for implementing a four-day work...