Ford took frontline health care heroes to court so for-profit LTC homes could pay them less

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario NDP Women's Issues critic Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul's) and Labour critic Peggy Sattler (London West) released this statement in response to the Supreme Court of Canada...

QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement:

“Today, Doug Ford had a chance to level the playing field for small businesses. Instead he’s rigged the game for his big fish buddies.

He wants credit for playing show-and-tell with a...

TORONTO — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has unveiled a plan to harness Ontario’s building trades in an economy-rebuilding infrastructure program that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and kickstart Ontario’s recovery.

Speaking to the Ontario Building and Construction Trades...

43 per cent of Ontario nurses considering leaving nursing, Science Table reports

SAULT STE. MARIE — In Sault Ste. Marie Thursday, Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath called for an urgent health care recruitment and retention action plan to relieve and respect exhausted health care workers, and...

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on Doug Ford to come up with, and publicly announce, a plan to roll out vaccination for kids aged 5 to 11 in advance of Health Canada's approval, so that resources are in place to get children vaccinated as quickly and smoothly as possible as soon...

SUDBURY — Since the Doug Ford government could not offer Ontario’s restaurant industry any explanation for why once again he is favouring big companies over small local restaurants and businesses under the new COVID rules, Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is now calling for an even playing...

NDP Leader fighting to keep local jobs, learning opportunities in Sudbury

SUDBURY — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath believes it’s not too late to save Laurentian University, and says she’ll never stop fighting to keep the good-paying jobs and learning opportunities its success brings to...

WINDSOR – NDP MPPs Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West), Taras Nayshak (Essex) and Percy Hatfield (Windsor—Tecumseh) released the following statement on the news that Ontario’s auto insurance companies made record profits during the pandemic, even as claim payments dropped by 50 per cent due to reduced driving and fewer...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Child Care critic Bhutila Karpoche said that while the Doug Ford Conservatives argue with the federal Liberals over signing a deal for $10-a-day child care, Ontario families are paying the price.

“For years, parents have struggled to afford Ontario’s astronomical child care costs —...

LONDON – NDP Consumer Protection critic Terence Kernaghan released the following statement on the news that Ontario’s auto insurance companies made record profits during the pandemic, despite substantially reduced driving and fewer accident claims:

“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve seen...

NORTH BAY — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is demanding to know why Doug Ford is treating small, local businesses differently from the big players — again — after the Ford government announced a change that puts local business at a disadvantage.

“Small business owners from restaurants to...

NORTH BAY — As the overdose crisis grows in North Bay and throughout Northern Ontario, Official Opposition NDP leader Andrea Horwath said investments in mental health and addictions are overdue, and lives are at stake.

Horwath was in North Bay Tuesday with Erika Lougheed, the Ontario NDP candidate for...