PETERBOROUGH — Catherine Fife, NDP critic for Economic Growth and Job Creation, said financial support for small and medium-sized businesses in Peterborough needs to come now, to make sure they make it to the other side of the pandemic without further debt burdens.

Local MPP Dave Smith told Peterborough this...

KITCHENER-WATERLOO – NDP MPPs Catherine Fife (Waterloo) and Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) say the Ford government must provide paid sick days and presumptive WSIB coverage for frontline workers during the pandemic, after the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) revealed that paramedics in Waterloo Region...

HAMILTON — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath responded to Ontario’s Science Table findings, published Wednesday, which recommend actions the government could take to prevent COVID-19 infections and deaths in long-term...

NIAGARA FALLS — NDP Workplace Health and Safety critic Wayne Gates says it’s wrong for the Ford government to protect big-box stores in violation of public health orders, instead of protecting the people that need to shop and work there.

“When big-box stores present a health risk to employees and...

QUEEN’S PARK — Thousands of families and educators are slated to learn today when or if schools will reopen — yet before making this decision, the government hasn’t taken a single action to make schools safer, said NDP Education critic Marit Stiles.

“It’s not enough to just reopen schools. We...

TORONTO — NDP MPP Suze Morrison is demanding that Doug Ford immediately halt the demolition of the historic Dominion Foundry buildings, and make detailed plans for the land transparent.

“It is appalling that Doug Ford is rushing forward with the demolition of the Dominion Foundry heritage buildings despite...

LONDON – NDP MPP Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe) has learned that long-term care residents in the Middlesex-London Health Unit who have already had COVID-19 will be denied the vaccine when everyone else in their care home is getting their shots. Armstrong, who is the Official Opposition critic for Home Care...

HAMILTON AND SCARBOROUGH — Frontline essential workers, including many health care workers, are among the many workers who don’t have paid sick days. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says that has got to change in order to stop the spread of COVID-19.

On Tuesday, Horwath and Scarborough Southwest MPP Doly Begum...

NDP says Ford has ignored growing crisis for too long

QUEEN’S PARK — On Monday morning, the Doug Ford government posted a new legal requirement for health care workers to accept shifts providing relief in private retirement residences, raising concerns that Ford is hiding the extent of the growing crisis...

YORK SOUTH—WESTON — NDP MPP Faisal Hassan said the Ford government must grant paid sick days to workers so they have the option to stay home when they’re unwell.

“I have heard from countless community members and families concerned by the lack of paid sick days in Ontario. York South—Weston is home to...

HAMILTON AND OTTAWA — As hospitals continue to fill beyond capacity, the Ford government has issued a triage protocol to decide who will get life saving ventilator support, and who will not. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the protocol shows that the crisis in hospitals is out of control, and that Ford’s attempt...

BRAMPTON — Anti-lockdown MPP Roman Baber will continue to collect a $16,000 top up on his MPP paycheque until Doug Ford recalls the legislature and fires Baber from his job as chair of the Justice Committee.

Baber had to be removed from his caucus Friday. Until then, Baber was lobbying Ford behind closed...