August 26, 2019
Statement from the Official Opposition on guns and gang violence
TORONTO — MPP Faisal Hassan, the NDP’s Youth Engagement critic, and MPP Kevin Yarde, the NDP’s Community Safety and Correctional Services critic, released the following statement in response to Dou... More
August 23, 2019
NDP fights Ford’s long-term care cuts
HAMILTON – Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath gave a press conference Friday to address Doug Ford cutting millions of dollars from long-term care funding province-wide. In Hamilton, Ford’s c... More
August 22, 2019
New Ford cuts to conservation authorities come with fresh flooding concerns
QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP says Doug Ford’s new round of cuts to conservation authorities threaten to leave Ontario homes and communities even more vulnerable to floods. The new attack was revealed in ... More
August 22, 2019
NDP slams class-size hike still being phased in
Thousands of student time-tables and staff assignments were redone months ago QUEEN’S PARK — Students, parents, teachers, education workers and the NDP have blasted Doug Ford’s scheme to hike cla... More
August 22, 2019
Hidden mandate letters show Ford fighting to keep schemes in backrooms
QUEEN’S PARK — NDP MPP Taras Natyshak (Essex) issued the following statement in response to a blog post by Brian Beamish, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. In his blog, Beamish outli... More
August 22, 2019
NDP decries lost year on sex-ed curriculum
TORONTO — Doug Ford ripped up the Health and Physical Education curriculum, threatened teachers with a sex-ed snitch-line and spent $1 million on an online survey, only to release a new curriculum ... More
August 6, 2019
NDP renews call for handgun ban after spate of shootings in Toronto
QUEEN’S PARK — Deputy Leader Sara Singh is renewing the Ontario NDP’s call for a ban on handgun and ammunition sales in Ontario’s urban areas following a spate of shootings over the long weekend in... More
August 1, 2019
Ford’s legal aid cuts hurt racialized students in Ottawa
OTTAWA — Laura Mae Lindo, Ontario NDP Anti-Racism critic, is calling on Doug Ford to restore legal aid funding amid new revelations about how the Conservatives’ cuts will hurt racialized communitie... More
August 1, 2019
NDP's Horwath fights funding cuts and higher fees for long-term care
OTTAWA — Two funding streams for long-term care are being eliminated by Doug Ford, taking millions of dollars away from care homes — but even as those cuts threaten to make life even less safe, hea... More
July 29, 2019