Ottawa families set to pack town hall Tuesday night to talk about better health care

OTTAWA — NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath will hold a town hall in Ottawa Tuesday evening to share her vision for better health care in Ottawa, and hear from patients, families and community...

QUEEN’S PARK — Sara Singh, Ontario NDP Attorney General critic, and Bhutila Karpoche, NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park, said news today of where Doug Ford’s cuts to Legal Aid Ontario will fall show just how devastating an impact the cuts will have for low-income people who need legal help.

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LONDON - London NDP MPPs Teresa Armstrong (London-Fanshawe), Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) and Peggy Sattler (London West) are calling on Doug Ford and the Conservatives to support women experiencing violence by providing the funding needed by Anova, a London-based agency that provides shelter, support,...

QUEEN’S PARK — With Doug Ford’s new law, gas stations that fail to display Ford’s anti-carbon-price stickers on every pump face prosecution under the Provincial Offenses Act, matching the punishment for using a fake ID to stock up on gun ammunition.

“According to Ford, failing to...

PETERBOROUGH--NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath was in Peterborough on Monday to meet with the mayor, municipal leaders and health care stakeholders regarding the city's growing opioid crisis.

Horwath met with Mayor Diane Therrien at City Hall to discuss the recent spike in...

NDP Leader calls on Ford to restore nearly $325,000 in funding cut from Hamilton festivals

QUEEN’S PARK--NDP Official Opposition Leader and Hamilton Centre NDP MPP Andrea Horwath said that Ford’s callous cuts to Hamilton festivals are a step backwards for the growing community. Horwath released the...

QUEEN’S PARK — Bhutila Karpoche, Ontario NDP critic for Mental Health and Addictions, said it’s shameful for Doug Ford to deny applications and withhold funding for desperately needed overdose prevention sites as the opioid overdose crisis continues to rip loved ones away from Ontario...

QUEEN’S PARK – Doug Ford continues to ignore Ontario’s opioid crisis by refusing to declare the crisis a public health emergency, Percy Hatfield, NDP MPP for Windsor-Tecumseh, said in question period Thursday, following the death last week of Windsor teenager Josh Chouinard, and the news that in Peterborough,...

QUEEN’S PARK — Marit Stiles, Ontario NDP Education critic, called on the Ford Conservatives once more before the legislature rises for the summer to stop classroom cuts as high school students in York Region learned they’re losing 124 courses and 35 course sections next year.

As the...

QUEEN’S PARK – While First Nations communities are asking the Ford government for clean drinking water, Ford and his Minister of Indigenous Affairs Greg Rickford are more interested in pushing beer, said Sol Mamakwa, NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong.

“Neskantaga First Nation has been under a...

QUEEN’S PARK - NDP MPP Michael Mantha introduced a motion on Thursday calling on the Ford government to stop delaying and take immediate action against the growing cases of Lyme disease in Ontario.

“Ontario has the highest number of cases of Lyme disease in the country, and the number is...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP critic for Auto Insurance and the MPP for Brampton East, Gurratan Singh, said during question period Thursday that the Ford government approving massive increases to auto insurance rates is making life less affordable for millions of Ontarians.

“Ontarians already pay...