TORONTO – While Ontario’s public hospitals are on the verge of collapse as historic deficits, staff shortages, and overcrowded emergency rooms push the health care system past its breaking point, Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are demanding immediate action from the Ford government to stop the erosion of public...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ford government’s new recycling program is causing even more headaches for people across Ontario, with multiple communities now being told that clear plastic overflow bags will no longer be collected, beginning in March. NDP Shadow Minister for Environment, Conservation, and Parks Peter...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Tom Rakocevic (Humber River—Black Creek) has issued the following statement, after the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) committed to full financial restitution for realtors defrauded by the collapse of iPro...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP is renewing their call for a public inquiry into Metrolinx. NDP Shadow Transit Minister Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) has issued the following...

THUNDER BAY – Following the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s controversial advertising campaign, NDP Shadow Minister for WSIB MPP Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) released the following statement:

“WSIB is clearly aware it has a reputational problem, but this is not a communications...

QUEEN’S PARK – Shadow Minister with responsibility for Child Care and Pensions, Teresa Armstrong (London–Fanshawe), says new data showing a sharp rise in the use of “director approvals” is a clear sign Ontario’s child care pressures are getting worse under Ford’s...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister with responsibility for Primary Care Dr. Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) is calling the Ford government’s bluff, following comments from the Minister of Health about municipal incentive programs to attract primary care...

SUDBURY — In response to ongoing job losses at LifeLabs in Northern Ontario, including the layoff of 40 medical laboratory technologists in Sudbury, Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Labour Jamie West (Sudbury) and Shadow Minister for Health MPP France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) released the following statement:

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LONDON - London families are being forced to wait months, in some cases nearly a full school year, for children to receive the psychological assessments they need to succeed in class, according to new figures from the Thames Valley District School...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Marit Stiles (Davenport), Shadow Minister for the Ontario Autism Program Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park), and MPP Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) joined the Ontario Autism Coalition today, calling on the Ford government to finally provide proper funding for...

LONDON — Autoneum has announced it will close its London auto parts plant by the end of 2026. Ontario NDP MPPs Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), and Peggy Sattler (London West), say the decision is yet another sign that workers are paying the price for Doug Ford’s...

OTTAWA – As the new Student and Family Support Offices came into effect this morning in five supervised school boards, it confirmed what critics have been saying all along: these changes implemented by Education Minister Paul Calandra simply replace meaningful support with layers of bureaucracy. NDP Shadow Minister...