SUDBURY – NDP MPP Jamie West (Sudbury) and MPP Gélinas (Nickel Belt) have released the following joint statement in response to the threat of losing 135 frontline health care workers and 35 hospital beds in...

LONDON – Ontario NDP MPPs Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), and Peggy Sattler (London West) say it is outrageous that about 50 London Machinery workers are waking up this morning without jobs while production shifts to a U.S. plant to avoid tariffs, leaving London...

QUEEN’S PARK – Peggy Sattler, Shadow Minister for Colleges and Universities, says the Ford government is asking students and families to pay more for education at a time when young people are already struggling to afford rent, food, and basic living costs.

"Under Doug Ford’s watch, young people simply...

QUEEN’S PARK – Dr. Robin Lennox, Shadow Minister for Primary Care, and France Gélinas, Shadow Minister for Health, say today’s Financial Accountability Office report confirms what the province is already seeing, that the Ford government’s health care plan is actively damaging Ontario’s health system and...

QUEEN’S PARK — Following the latest report by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO), NDP Shadow Finance Minister Jessica Bell (University—Rosedale), and Shadow Minister for Economic Development Catherine Fife (Waterloo) say that the message is clear: Ontario is continuing to fall further behind...

WINDSOR — Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles and Windsor West MPP Lisa Gretzky are speaking out after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge:

“This is completely irresponsible,” said Stiles. “Donald Trump's latest tantrum is threatening...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles says it’s time for Doug Ford to get serious about protecting workers and tell the Prime Minister to stop taxing severance pay of workers’ impacted by tariff job losses:

“This Premier is a jobs disaster,” said Stiles. “Ontario lost 67,000 jobs...

OTTAWA – Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Chandra Pasma and College Ward City Councillor Laine Johnson are demanding transparency and community engagement regarding the sale of the Grant Alternative School on Draper Ave in the Redwood neighbourhood of Nepean. The Ottawa Carleton District School Board site was quietly listed...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Colleges and Universities Peggy Sattler (London West) is calling on the Ford government to listen to the majority of Ontarians who know that the province’s colleges urgently need more...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Solicitor General Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines), and Shadow Attorney General Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) have issued the following statement, after Ontario’s Inspector General of Policing announced a province-wide inspection into corruption and integrity in...

OTTAWA - Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, made the following statement regarding the news that the Algonquin College Centre for Accessible Learning is laying off academic counsellors and replacing them with lower paid support staff who do not have the same qualifications:

“Hot on the heels of the...

QUEEN’S PARK — In response to the arrests of eight Toronto police officers (seven current and one retired) on multiple serious charges, Ontario NDP Shadow Solicitor General Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines) and Shadow Attorney General Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) have issued the following statement:

“I...