QUEEN’S PARK — In today’s press conference, Doug Ford claimed that migrant workers in the agricultural sector had on the job protections and added “you will get paid” if found to have COVID-19 and need time away from work.

This is not true. Under the rules that Ford laid out, workers who are diagnosed...

QUEEN'S PARK — Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP will host a virtual summit Thursday to discuss transforming long-term care and home care; a critical step towards building the NDP's 2022 vision for a better life for Ontarians as they age.

Horwath is bringing together frontline health care workers and...

Changes would leave tenants more vulnerable to losing their homes

QUEEN’S PARK — Suze Morrison, Ontario NDP Tenant Rights critic, said Doug Ford is making Bill 184 even worse by quietly sneaking through changes that will make it easier for landlords to bully tenants into signing bad repayment plans during...

QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP says Doug Ford’s strategy for protecting migrant workers in the COVID-19 pandemic is now in shambles. MPP Taras Natyshak (Essex) is calling on Ford to formally reverse the decision to force asymptomatic migrant workers to work when they should be isolated and to step up with plans to...

SIOUX LOOKOUT - Inmates and staff who face appalling conditions at the Thunder Bay and Kenora jails cannot afford to wait years in the future for the Ford government to take action, said Kiiwetinoong NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa.

Mamakwa, the NDP Official Opposition critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation,...

WINDSOR – Percy Hatfield MPP (Windsor–Tecumseh), NDP critic for OLG and horse racing, has released a statement after the Ontario Superior Court ruled that the previous Liberal government breached the rights of standardbred horse breeders when it cancelled the Slots at Racetracks Program without...

SIOUX LOOKOUT – Sol Mamakwa, NDP Official Opposition Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation critic, and Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP, Judith Monteith-Farrell, released the following statement after Ontario’s Ombudsman raised deep, disturbing concerns about conditions in the province's correctional facilities...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP transit critic Jessica Bell has written a letter to the Minister of Transportation, Caroline Mulroney, demanding answers from the Ford government as a new report reveals major delays that could set major transit projects in the GTHA back by years.

The June Infrastructure Ontario...

No good reason for Ford to maintain broken police oversight rules

QUEEN’S PARK – Kevin Yarde, NDP Critic for Community Safety and Correctional Services, says Doug Ford should implement Toronto City Council’s proposals immediately as first steps in an overall plan to address police violence and systemic...

QUEEN’S PARK — Responding to a coalition of more than a dozen Black organizations heading to Queen’s Park Monday, the Ontario’s Official Opposition NDP and NDP Black Caucus are backing their call for the government to finally implement recommendations from reports that have been collecting dust since they...

QUEEN’S PARK — As the migrant worker COVID-19 outbreak grows worse, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has written to federal Minister Carla Qualtrough to call on the federal government to take action when the Ford government fails to protect migrant workers and stop the spread in agricultural operations.

While...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath said damning allegations that Doug Ford’s government received two proposals by its own Long-Term Care Minister to increase funding for long-term care homes before the pandemic devastated nursing homes, and rejected both, deserves an explanation from...