TREATY 3 TERRITORY – Doug Ford should have acted years ago to fix the housing conditions in First Nations communities outlined in a new study that shows poor housing conditions are hurting the health of First Nations children, said MPP Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong), the NDP’s critic for Indigenous and Treaty...

NDP Leader calls for investments to expand, improve services in rural communities

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is vowing to address the family doctor shortage plaguing rural communities in Ontario.

Horwath made the commitment Monday in a wide-ranging speech at the...

TORONTO — NDP Education critic Marit Stiles released the following statement in response to the Ford's government’s new reporting system for COVID in schools, which shows that 337 schools in Ontario reported absence rates higher than 30 per cent and 111 schools had absence rates higher than 50 per cent:

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OTTAWA – NDP MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) and NDP transit critic, Tom Rakocevic, released the following statement following a Toronto Star investigation into Metrolinx that found the agency awarded its Vice-President’s private consulting firm contracts worth millions. The consulting firm, Boxfish, is based in...

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and NDP Child Care critic Bhutila Karpoche released the following statement in response to the federal government announcing it has signed a deal with Nunavut on $10-a-day child care:

"Families in Ontario continue to be crushed by Ontario's massive...

ESSEX — NDP Ethics and Accountability critic Taras Natyshak (Essex) issued the following statement in response to Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake’s decision that PC MPP Vijay Thanigasalam (Scarborough—Rouge Park) violated parliamentary conventions under the Members’ Integrity Act by using public...

AJAX — The following is an excerpt from remarks made by NDP candidate Steve Parish (Ajax) at a public nomination meeting on Jan. 22, 2022:

“There has been controversy over the renaming of Langsdorff avenue in Ajax, and comments that I made at that time. I want to say clearly and unequivocally that the Nazi...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wants the Jan. 31 reopening to be safer. She’s calling for paid sick days for all, restored access to COVID testing, and an expansion of the vaccine certificate program to include places like LCBOs and cannabis shops.

“We all want the cycle of...

NIAGARA – NDP MPPs Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines), Jeff Burch (Niagara Centre) and Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls), and NDP candidate for Niagara West Dave Augustyn released the following statement in response to a letter from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore to Niagara’s Chief Medical Officer Dr...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is joining frontline workers in health care, long-term care, education, and other sectors to fight for urgent action to protect people and the health care system from the Omicron wave.

Horwath joined with the leadership of the Ontario Federation...

TORONTO — NDP MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto—St Paul’s) and MPP Faisal Hassan (York South—Weston) released the following statement in response to news that Metrolinx and the City of Toronto will establish a joint committee to address the needs of local businesses impacted by construction on the Eglinton Crosstown...

NIAGARA FALLS — NDP MPP Wayne Gates, whose riding covers Fort Erie, is pointing to the recent blizzard as a reason to re-open Fort Erie’s urgent care.

“Fort Erie gets pummeled by snow every year and the roads become very dangerous — everyone here knows it, and Doug Ford has been told many times that we...