QUEEN'S PARK - NDP Ethics and Accountability critic Taras Natyshak has written to the Auditor General requesting an investigation into the sole-source contract provided to FH Health, after it was revealed that the the corporate directors of the company donated the legal maximum to the PC Party prior to the...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the government to re-start scheduled surgeries, and urgently give hospitals the staff and money they need to do them.

“There are thousands of people who have had surgeries cancelled or delayed. Some are living in pain, and many are...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath and Child Care critic Bhutila Karpoche say they fully support a new call to action letter signed by dozens of health experts, organizations and community groups. They released the following...

NORTHERN ONTARIO – Northern NDP MPPs are supporting the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s call on the Ford government to allow more students and residents to be admitted to address the doctor shortage that is affecting communities across the North.

The following statement was released by Northern NDP...

NIAGARA – NDP critic for Training, Trades and Apprenticeships Wayne Gates released the following statement on the Ford government’s announcement of the new crown agency Skilled Trades Ontario:

“It's about time. The Ford government rushed in to dismantle the College of Trades with no thought to what...

OTTAWA - NDP MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) and NDP transit critic, Tom Rakocevic, released the following statement after Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney's office said it will investigate contracts Metrolinx awarded to a consulting company while its director was serving as a Metrolinx VP.

“In...

QUEEN’S PARK – Steven Del Duca announced yesterday that he’s “getting the band back together” in 2022. Unfortunately for Ontarians, it’s the same old Liberal band that wrote all the greatest hits of Liberal scandal and entitlement.

Del Duca’s team includes:

Don Guy - who engineered the gas...

KITCHENER – NDP critic for Colleges and Universities Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) released the following statement on the impasse in bargaining between the province’s 24 publicly funded colleges and its faculty, represented by OPSEU:

"College faculty deserve a fair deal that meets their needs as...

TREATY 3 TERRITORY – Doug Ford should have acted years ago to fix the housing conditions in First Nations communities outlined in a new study that shows poor housing conditions are hurting the health of First Nations children, said MPP Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong), the NDP’s critic for Indigenous and Treaty...

TORONTO — NDP Education critic Marit Stiles released the following statement in response to the Ford's government’s new reporting system for COVID in schools, which shows that 337 schools in Ontario reported absence rates higher than 30 per cent and 111 schools had absence rates higher than 50 per cent:

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NDP Leader calls for investments to expand, improve services in rural communities

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is vowing to address the family doctor shortage plaguing rural communities in Ontario.

Horwath made the commitment Monday in a wide-ranging speech at the...

OTTAWA – NDP MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) and NDP transit critic, Tom Rakocevic, released the following statement following a Toronto Star investigation into Metrolinx that found the agency awarded its Vice-President’s private consulting firm contracts worth millions. The consulting firm, Boxfish, is based in...