QUEEN’S PARK — Marit Stiles, NDP MPP for Davenport, has written to the Auditor General to ask for an investigation into how much property owners stand to benefit from Doug Ford’s scheme to remove thousands of acres from the Greenbelt — and whether it’s in the public interest. Stiles’ request comes on the...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Housing critic Jessica Bell is calling on Doug Ford to create an urgent and concrete plan to address the homelessness crisis in Toronto.

“Everyone deserves a safe and decent place to live. People who are experiencing homelessness, advocates and frontline workers have long been...

QUEEN’S PARK — Doug Ford’s Conservatives voted down an NDP proposal to stop for-profit clinics from sticking Ontario patients with big bills. NDP Health critic France Gélinas said the vote confirms that Ford is determined to pursue privatization in health care.

Gélinas’ private member’s bill would...

QUEEN’S PARK – Lise Vaugeois, NDP MPP for Thunder Bay–Superior North, is calling on Doug Ford to put a stop to gas price gouging that leaves Northerners paying more at the pumps.

“Gas prices remain far higher in Northern Ontario than in the South,” Vaugeois said during question period Thursday. “In...

QUEEN’S PARK— Steeper penalties for people who break road laws — and kill or seriously injure someone as a result — are one step closer to becoming law after a private member’s bill brought forward by Oshawa MPP Jennifer French passed at second reading. The Fairness for Road Users Act is aimed at helping...

Local MPP proposes requiring in-building emergency backup generators for essentials

OTTAWA – Chandra Pasma, MPP for Ottawa West--Nepean, has introduced a bill to require backup generators in apartment buildings to provide emergency power so that no one has to go days without water and elevator access as...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Housing critic Jessica Bell (University-Rosedale) and the MPP for Parkdale—High Park, Bhutila Karpoche, are urging the Ford government to pass their bill to restore rent control for all units.

At a press conference held Thursday, Bell and Karpoche slammed the Ford government for...

WINDSOR – Lisa Gretzky, NDP MPP for Windsor West, released the following statement in response to news that residents of a heatless apartment building are being evacuated into buses and emergency shelters for warmth:

“It's completely unacceptable that the residents of 1616 Ouellette Ave. have not had...

QUEEN’S PARK – Peggy Sattler, NDP MPP for London West, released the following statement in response to cancelled surgeries at London’s Children Hospital:

“Can you imagine what it must be like to be a parent with a young one in London right now, afraid of your child getting sick and ending up at the...

QUEEN’S PARK — As MPPs debate the government’s Bill 39, legislation that would give Doug Ford permission to bulldoze local decision-making and handpick the heads of regional councils, Ontario NDP Interim Leader Peter Tabuns said that in recent weeks, Ford has trampled democratic freedoms in Ontario multiple...

QUEEN’S PARK – The NDP is keeping up its campaign to stop Doug Ford from sending more surgeries to for-profit clinics with Health critic France Gélinas’ bill to protect Ontarians from unfair and illegal health care fees heading to second reading at Queen’s Park Wednesday.

“There is a crisis in our...

New Democrats call for increased accountability and oversight on critical projects

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Infrastructure critic Jennifer French (Oshawa) and Toronto Centre NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam are calling for increased accountability and oversight from the province as critical projects procured under the...