QUEEN’S PARK — As the Ford government sits on its hands instead of taking action to ensure a full return to schools in September, the Ontario NDP is putting forward an emergency action plan that would help get kids safely back to class five days a week in the fall and work for parents and teachers. That plan,...

NDP calls for immediate action on staffing, inspections

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the Ford government to act immediately to address problems in long-term care homes that can be fixed today — like staffing up ahead of a possible second wave of...

Hamiltonians waiting as long as two weeks for COVID-19 test results that should arrive in 48 hours or less

QUEEN’S PARK — Monique Taylor, NDP MPP for Hamilton Mountain, is calling on the Ford government to step up and put an end to excessive waits for COVID-19 test results by fixing their broken testing...

QUEEN’S PARK – Northern NDP MPPs are demanding that Doug Ford stop leaving out northern schools and provide the resources they need for a safe reopening in September.

NDP Deputy Leader John Vanthof and MPP Sol Mamakwa, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation critic, supported NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and...

NDP calls for fund to help businesses with safe re-opening costs

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said safely moving into Stage 3 should come with help and support from the government.

“Ontarians have worked hard to flatten the curve. It’s because of the collective...

QUEEN’S PARK — New Democrats are demanding answers on the contract with for-profit, private corporation Switch Health for COVID-19 testing in the Windsor-Essex region.

“We desperately need the province to ramp up and properly coordinate on-farm and in-community testing in the region. Instead a private...

The NDP urges Ford to fund struggling businesses as they reopen

WINDSOR-ESSEX — Immediately following their tour of Leamington, Kingsville and other parts of Essex County, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Essex MPP Taras Natyshak took messages from small businesses and families in the region right back to...

NDP supports safe, small classes for five-day school weeks in the fall

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath pushed again in question period Monday for Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce to create smaller, safer classes in September by getting more teachers, more education workers and more classrooms on board...

KINGSVILLE — Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, was in Kingsville, Leamington and the Essex region Saturday and Sunday to fight for the help the region and its small businesses need to come roaring back.

The Doug Ford government has not managed to ramp up testing and COVID-19...

SIOUX LOOKOUT – Sol Mamakwa, NDP Official Opposition critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, sent the following open letter to Ontario’s education minister requesting urgent support for Matawa First Nations COVID-19 Emergency Education Response Plan.

The Ford government has still not provided...

TORONTO — University Rosedale MPP and NDP critic for Transit Jessica Bell says Doug Ford is giving himself the unprecedented power to take land without so much as a hearing.

“Ford is giving himself unprecedented authority to expropriate, sell, and build on land, running roughshod over municipal planning...

WINDSOR – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) has released a statement following the end of the third-shift at the Chrysler assembly plant in Windsor on July 10:

“After a year of uncertainty, hundreds of workers on the third shift at Chrysler are losing their jobs today. Feeder plants in...