QUEEN’S PARK — NDP MPP France Gélinas and the Official Opposition are backing new calls to protect health care workers from violence, following the release of a poll that shows extremely high rates of violence on the job. Gélinas is promising to re-table a bill that would help health care workers speak out and...

Urgent action needed as hospitals close emergency departments, cut hours

QUEEN’S PARK — Interim Ontario NDP Leader Peter Tabuns is calling on Doug Ford to prioritize health care hiring as reports emerge of hospitals forced to temporarily close emergency departments and urgent care centres, and cut hours...

KITCHENER – As tensions grow between those calling for anti-racist work to continue in Ontario public schools and those challenging the importance of this work, founding member of the NDP Black Caucus, NDP MPP Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre), released the following statement regarding the removal of anti-racist...

QUEEN’S PARK — Interim Ontario NDP Leader Peter Tabuns (Toronto-Danforth) is calling on Doug Ford to immediately bring forward a plan to expand access to fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to everyone. Tabuns released the following statement:

“No one in Ontario wants to live through another rash of...

OTTAWA — NDP MPPs Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) and Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West-Nepean) have written to Ontario's new Minister of Health Sylvia Jones asking her to expand access to fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, to ensure people are protected from sub variants and vaccines in Ottawa are not thrown...

Conservatives get pay bumps aplenty, while everyday Ontarians struggle

QUEEN’S PARK — Peter Tabuns, interim leader of the Ontario NDP, said it’s shocking that Doug Ford is packing dozens of MPPs onto his gravy train with the appointment of 43 parliamentary assistants.

That’s up from 25...

TORONTO — NDP MPP Jessica Bell says Doug Ford’s choice to greenlight 2.5 per cent rent increases for Ontarians is piling more costs on people already hurting from the rising cost of living.

“People are squeezed more than ever before, and the cost of ever-rising rents in Ontario is a big part of the...

TORONTO – NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto—Danforth) has been elected by the NDP’s provincial council to be the party’s interim leader.

“The NDP is honoured that the people of Ontario have asked us, once again, to form the Official Opposition, and I’m humbled to have an opportunity to lead the party...

QUEEN’S PARK — People are desperate for relief from the long waits caused by the health care crisis, and the crushing cost of living — and the Official Opposition NDP says the Doug Ford must instruct his new cabinet to stop making it worse and start making it better.

“The bottom line for people is that...

TORONTO — MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto St. Paul’s) released the following statement on behalf of the NDP:

“I hear the anger, the fear and the sorrow pouring out today. The United States Supreme Court is dooming a new generation to go without modern health care, and without the right of each...

NDP responds to shocking CMHC report: Ford must change course to address housing shortage

TORONTO – Jessica Bell, the NDP MPP for University Rosedale, called on the Ford government to spur the construction of attainable and affordable homes in response to Thursday’s CMCH report on Canada’s housing...

NDP responds to shocking CMHC report: Ford must change course to address housing shortage

TORONTO – Jessica Bell, the NDP MPP for University Rosedale, called on the Ford government to spur the construction of attainable and affordable homes in response to Thursday’s CMCH report on Canada’s housing...