MPP Faisal Hassan, the NDP’s Youth Engagement critic, and MPP Kevin Yarde, the NDP’s Community Safety and Correctional Services critic, released the following statement in response to Doug Ford’s plan to add closed circuit television cameras to tackle gun and gang violence:

“We were...

National Post breaks troubling allegation that damaging closure was sparked by revenge

Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on Doug Ford to immediately halt the planned shutdown of the Hamilton Health Sciences forensic pathology unit, and launch a full public review of the proposed closure.

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Thousands of student time-tables and staff assignments were redone months ago

Students, parents, teachers, education workers and the NDP have blasted Doug Ford’s scheme to hike class sizes — and an eleventh-hour attempt to soften that bad news by the Ford government won’t save students who have already...

NDP MPP Taras Natyshak (Essex) issued the following statement in response to a blog post by Brian Beamish, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. In his blog, Beamish outlined why he has ordered the Ford government to comply with an order to release cabinet mandate letters, and reveals that the government...

Stiles blasts Ford for playing politics with kids’ safety

Doug Ford ripped up the Health and Physical Education curriculum, threatened teachers with a sex-ed snitch-line and spent $1 million on an online survey, only to release a new curriculum Wednesday that is largely unchanged from the 2015 sex-ed...

NDP condemns latest attack in Ford’s war on the environment

The NDP says Doug Ford’s new round of cuts to conservation authorities threaten to leave Ontario homes and communities even more vulnerable to floods. The new attack was revealed in an Aug. 16 letter from Minister of the Environment, Conservation...

OTTAWA — NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath shared her vision for stronger communities in remarks Monday at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) Conference in Ottawa.

“No matter what part of Ontario we live in, we all want similar things,” said Horwath. “We all...

OTTAWA — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in response to Doug Ford’s remarks at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario:

“This morning, Doug Ford confirmed that the countdown to devastating cuts is on. He’s slashing things like public health and child...

Ford eliminating millions from long-term care means Hamilton homes face a deficit, and residents higher fees

Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath gave a press conference Friday to address Doug Ford cutting millions of dollars from long-term care funding province-wide. In Hamilton, Ford’s cuts will...

Jessica Bell, Ontario NDP Transit critic, released the following statement in response to the Ford government’s announcement about GO Service

"Commuters in Hamilton, Niagara and Kitchener-Waterloo need two-way all-day GO Service now, not at some unspecified time in the future. That’s what would make a...

NDP urges Ford Conservatives to examine protections for seniors

Jessica Bell, NDP MPP for University—Rosedale, is calling on Doug Ford’s Conservatives to review the protections for seniors living in retirement homes after the abrupt closure of Davenhill Senior Living has left 150 senior residents with...

Kingston’s Providence Manor facing deficit, higher resident fees

KINGSTON — Doug Ford’s cuts to long-term care are taking away millions of dollars from homes across the province. In Kingston, long-term care homes like Providence Manor will face a deficit, and its residents will see higher fees.

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