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FIFE: Low business confidence should be a major wake-up call for Ford
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Catherine Fife (Waterloo), says the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s latest report confirms what businesses and workers across the province are already deeply...
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London NDP MPPs Slam Ford’s Underfunding as Fanshawe Cuts Threaten Jobs and Students
LONDON – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Colleges and Universities Peggy Sattler (London West), MPP Teresa Armstrong (London – Fanshawe) and MPP Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) have released the joint statement following reports of program and funding cuts at London’s Fanshawe...
Ontario NDP launches "Save OSAP" campaign as Ford hands students a "lifetime debt sentence"
QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are fighting back against Doug Ford’s latest attack on post-secondary education, launching the Save OSAP campaign to stop a plan that leaves young people behind:
“Ontario’s young people are...
GRETZKY: Ford’s deal with Diageo leaves workers out in the cold
WINDSOR — Doug Ford may be celebrating his deal with Diageo, but NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) says it’s unacceptable that the government continues to cast workers from the Amherstburg plant aside:
“A commitment by Diageo to some investment in Ontario is a start, but this does nothing for the 200...
STILES: Home care patients died in pain on Ford’s watch
QUEEN’S PARK — After a Freedom of Information request by The Trillium revealed the true extent of Ontario Health atHome’s 2024 supply shortage, Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles blasted the Ford government for leaving home care workers with inadequate supplies, causing patients to die in...
NDP MPPs call out Ford’s health care cuts in Sudbury
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...
NDP: Doug Ford’s jobs disaster claims 50 more jobs lost in London as manufacturing work shifts to the U.S
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...
NDP: Ford's tuition hike plan will hurt the next generation of Ontarians
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...
NDP: $10.7 billion gap exposes Ford’s dangerous plan for Ontario’s health care
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...
NDP: Latest FAO report shows Ford’s decisions are leaving Ontarians behind
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...
Trump’s latest tantrum now targeting Gordie Howe bridge and Windsor jobs
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...
Stiles: It’s time to deliver relief for workers and stop taxing severance pay
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...