QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Jessica Bell (University-Rosedale) and France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) were joined by primary care professionals and patients from Taddle Creek Family Health Team to demand action on the funding crisis facing Family Health Teams.

“Everyone in Ontario should be able to access good primary...

HAMILTON – New Democrats in Hamilton West – Ancaster – Dundas came together on Saturday to nominate Sandy Shaw as the candidate for the next provincial election.

“I am honoured to represent the people of Hamilton West – Ancaster – Dundas,” said Shaw. “Representing our community at Queen’s Park...

NIAGARA – Over 200 residents in Niagara Falls came together to choose Wayne Gates to be the Ontario NDP candidate for the next provincial election.

Burd Sisler, a 109-year-old resident of Fort Erie and veteran of the Second World War, nominated Gates. Heather Kelley, an organizer with Fort Erie Healthcare...

QUEEN’S PARK – MPPs Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines), Tom Rakocevic (Humber River–Black Creek), Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk–James Bay) and Peter Tabuns (Toronto–Danforth) are bringing solutions that would bring down people’s utility bills with Bill 213, Affordable Home Heating Act.

“Ontarians have...

SUDBURY – MPP Jamie West (Sudbury) stands proudly with Laurentian University to ensure Government support for northern post-secondary institutions:

"The CCAA could and should have been avoided,” said West. “I regularly meet with Laurentian University, and with the unions, workers, clubs and students. I am...

QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, asked the Premier how he can justify the out-of-control cost of the Ontario Place redevelopment in Toronto to the northern families who will have to pay for it.

“While working families in the North are struggling just to put food on the table, Doug...

QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Jill Andrew, ONDP Critic for Culture & Heritage, brought forward a motion to echoing the calls from Ontario’s cultural institutions for stable and predicable funding.

“We must properly fund the arts, culture, and heritage sector so that it can remain the social medicine that it is...

QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, demanded the Premier remove Kinga Surma as Minister of Infrastructure.

“After wasting billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing a luxury spa on Toronto’s waterfront, and tipping the scales with an unfair procurement process, the Minister responsible...

QUEEN’S PARK – This morning in the Queen’s Park Media Studio, Paramedics from across Ontario and NDP Health critic France Gélinas called for a provincial task force to address shortages of ambulances and dangerous wait times communities across the province are experiencing.

“This afternoon I’ll be...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) released the following statement on the Auditor General’s new bombshell report which outlines negligence from the Ford government on multiple files, including the opioid crisis in...

TORONTO – In just the past 60 days, the Ontario NDP raised over $825,000 from 15,640 contributions, showcasing the growing trust Ontarians are placing in Marit Stiles and the NDP to replace Doug Ford’s Conservatives after six years of schemes and scandals.

The Ontario NDP’s strong grassroots support, with...

QUEEN'S PARK – MPP Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) is calling on the government to increase truck driver training requirements. Amidst ongoing reports of fraud and corruption in truck driver licensing centers across Ontario, MPP Bourgouin tabled his latest private member’s bill that would require all...