QUEEN'S PARK — NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement of condolences following the loss of a worker at Madonna Care Community in Orleans who has died of COVID-19:

"I want to express my sorrow at the loss of this worker, and send my heartfelt condolences to their...

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has released a statement following the Ford government’s announcement Friday of a long-overdue testing strategy for the province:

“Testing in Ontario has been woefully inadequate from the beginning of this pandemic. It should...

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement following a Toronto Star report that local Medical Officers of Health have coordinated to create a detailed metric to plan the path forwards, including important benchmarks, for re-opening:

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QUEEN’S PARK - Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, issued the following statement calling on Doug Ford to immediately deploy additional resources and support to communities identified as COVID-19 hotspots in a map released by the City of Toronto:

“I’m calling...

QUEEN’S PARK — Premier Doug Ford today confirmed he has a list of 19 “red” long-term care homes in dire straits, but refuses to release that list of homes so that families and residents know where the worst problems are. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement, demanding that list be made...

Beating COVID-19, fixing long-term care starts with an independent public inquiry that actually listens

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath joined the families of long-term care residents Thursday via video conference to discuss how the deadly impact of COVID-19 on long-term care was, sadly,...

QUEEN’S PARK — Suze Morrison, Ontario NDP Tenant Rights critic, said it’s simply wrong for Doug Ford to capitalize on a pandemic to quietly ram through legislation that will make it easier for landlords to evict tenants.

Bill 184, Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act, which passed...

“The conditions and treatment of seniors revealed in this report are outrageous, horrifying and saddening. The horror seniors in these homes are being forced to live is inhumane. It breaks my heart to think about what these people are living through even today, and how scared and outraged their families must be...

QUEEN’S PARK — Doug Ford and his government need to act immediately and take over the many long-term care facilities across the province that are failing to ensure the health and safety of seniors and staff, said Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in a press conference with family members of seniors in...

QUEEN’S PARK — Weeks late, the government has stepped in to take over two private for-profit long-term care facilities that are failing to protect their residents against COVID-19 — but NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says many more need to come under the direct management of the province.

“For weeks, we have...

QUEEN'S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement in response to a letter from 11 health care CEOs to Premier Doug Ford asking for the province to release the pandemic pay bump it promised a month ago:

"Workers on the front lines of the COVID-19...

QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP’s Andrea Horwath says that after over a week of very low testing, it’s clear Doug Ford’s strategy of limiting testing to assessment centres just isn’t working.

“Limiting testing to just the assessment centres is an ongoing mistake,” said Horwath. “We need a new plan to...