QUEEN’S PARK — Despite continued allusions by the Ford government that the opening of the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT is near, there has still been no concrete opening date announced by the Conservatives.

Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) questioned the government at Queen’s...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Children, Community and Social Services, Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West); and Shadow Minister for Women’s Social and Economic Opportunity and Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park); issued the following statement in...

QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, 2SLGBTQI+ Issues critic, released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day:

This World AIDS Day’s theme is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response”. For decades, I have stood in solidarity with those living with HIV/AIDS, and those who fight to...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPP Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) pressed Premier Doug Ford in Question Period today after Feed Ontario released its latest Hunger Report showing alarming increases in food bank use and worsening poverty across the province.

“This morning Feed Ontario released their...

NIAGARA – Ontario NDP MPPs Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls), Jeff Burch (Niagara Centre), and Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines), are responding to news that Niagara Health will eliminate 98 positions after ending the fiscal year with a $26 million...

QUEEN’S PARK — Following the Minister of Education’s announcement that he is seizing control over another school board and sweeping aside the right of parents in Near North to have a say in decisions affecting their children, NDP shadow minister for education MPP Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West – Nepean) released...

QUEEN’S PARK — As Doug Ford’s disastrous speed camera removal agenda takes effect across the province, highlighted by new road signs that are too big to fit on poles, Ontario’s roads are no safer. Just this past weekend, another pedestrian was sent to hospital after being hit by a vehicle on Parkside...

QUEEN’S PARK — Victims of the iPro Realty scandal took to Queen’s Park today, shortly before news broke that the Ford government would step in and appoint an administrator to oversee the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO).

Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Public and Business Service Delivery and...

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...