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BEGUM: Ontarians are fed up with Metrolinx’s excuses
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) says it’s too late for more of Metrolinx’s finger-pointing, as the party continues its call for the Ford government to launch a full inquiry and overhaul of the...
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NDP United with North for Safe Highways
Residents across Northern Ontario are mobilizing to call for safe, well-maintained roads that connect communities, businesses, and families. MPPs Guy Bourgouin, John Vanthof, Lise Vaugeois and Deputy Leader Sol Mamakwa stand in solidarity with rally participants and highlight the NDP’s ongoing work advocating for...
NDP: Doug Ford’s cuts are putting our health care system on the brink of collapse
TORONTO – While Ontario’s public hospitals are on the verge of collapse as historic deficits, staff shortages, and overcrowded emergency rooms push the health care system past its breaking point, Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are demanding immediate action from the Ford government to stop the erosion of public...
TABUNS: Ontarians losing patience with Ford’s recycling program
QUEEN’S PARK — The Ford government’s new recycling program is causing even more headaches for people across Ontario, with multiple communities now being told that clear plastic overflow bags will no longer be collected, beginning in March. NDP Shadow Minister for Environment, Conservation, and Parks Peter...
RAKOCEVIC: Justice for RECO fraud victims is welcome news, but overdue
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Tom Rakocevic (Humber River—Black Creek) has issued the following statement, after the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) committed to full financial restitution for realtors defrauded by the collapse of iPro...
BEGUM: Metrolinx needs more than a CEO change, it needs a full public inquiry and an overhaul
QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP is renewing their call for a public inquiry into Metrolinx. NDP Shadow Transit Minister Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) has issued the following...
Ontario child care centres turning to underqualified staff as workforce crisis worsens
QUEEN’S PARK – Shadow Minister with responsibility for Child Care and Pensions, Teresa Armstrong (London–Fanshawe), says new data showing a sharp rise in the use of “director approvals” is a clear sign Ontario’s child care pressures are getting worse under Ford’s...
Vaugeois: Injured workers need justice, not costly ad campaigns
THUNDER BAY – Following the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s controversial advertising campaign, NDP Shadow Minister for WSIB MPP Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) released the following statement:
“WSIB is clearly aware it has a reputational problem, but this is not a communications...
LENNOX: Municipal "hunger games" for doctors is a result of Ford and Jones' failure
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister with responsibility for Primary Care Dr. Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) is calling the Ford government’s bluff, following comments from the Minister of Health about municipal incentive programs to attract primary care...
NDP Raises Concerns About Learn and Stay Expansion as Northern Lab Jobs Are Lost
SUDBURY — In response to ongoing job losses at LifeLabs in Northern Ontario, including the layoff of 40 medical laboratory technologists in Sudbury, Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Labour Jamie West (Sudbury) and Shadow Minister for Health MPP France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) released the following statement:
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Nearly year-long waits for student psychological assessments leave London families behind
LONDON - London families are being forced to wait months, in some cases nearly a full school year, for children to receive the psychological assessments they need to succeed in class, according to new figures from the Thames Valley District School...
Stiles stands with Simao family in calling on Ford for more special education resources in classrooms
QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Marit Stiles (Davenport), Shadow Minister for the Ontario Autism Program Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park), and MPP Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) joined the Ontario Autism Coalition today, calling on the Ford government to finally provide proper funding for...