QUEEN’S PARK — With COVID-19 pressures shutting down scheduled surgeries starting April 12, Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the Ford government to urgently examine all options and possibilities for getting hospitals the staffing and resources they need, and put forward a plan to...

HAMILTON — New Democrats in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas have nominated incumbent MPP Sandy Shaw as their NDP candidate for the 2022 provincial election. First elected in 2018, Shaw has previously served on the board of the Hamilton Port Authority and worked with a number of local organizations including...

WINDSOR — New Democrats in Windsor West have nominated incumbent MPP Lisa Gretzky as their NDP candidate for the 2022 provincial election. An entrepreneur and community advocate, Gretzky has represented Windsor West at Queen’s Park since 2014. Before that, she served as a trustee with the Greater Essex County...

HAMILTON — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on Doug Ford to protect in-class learning in Hamilton by acting now to make schools safer.

Horwath’s call comes as Hamilton records recent COVID-19 cases in more than 70 schools locally and a growing number of regions move learning online,...

QUEEN’S PARK — Premier Doug Ford and Ford's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams said Wednesday that that the current crisis in ICUs was a surprise to them. That can’t possibly be true, because consistent, frightening data was being publicly released by their own Science Table since...

SUDBURY – Ross Romano should listen to Laurentian’s faculty and the community, and take action to provide the urgent support Laurentian needs now, said NDP critic for Colleges and Universities, Laura Mae Lindo, and Sudbury MPP Jamie West. In the following open letter, both MPPs support the Laurentian University...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Worker Safety Critic Wayne Gates says the Ford Government hasn’t done what is necessary to make workplaces safe.

On March 12, Peel’s Medical Officer of Health shut down Amazon’s warehouse at 8050 Heritage Road in Brampton, where over 900 workers were infected with COVID-19, after...

QUEEN’S PARK - Premier Ford dismissed the many people calling for paid sick leave as “playing politics”. Here is a short list of front-line health workers, doctors, medical experts and concerned citizens calling for this simple, effective and utterly necessary measure:

Samantha Hill, President, Ontario...

Lockdown should include vaccines for essential workers, paid sick days, support for local business and more

QUEEN’S PARK — Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, issued the following statement in response to new lockdown orders from the Doug Ford government:

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QUEEN’S PARK — Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition New Democrats, issued the following statement to mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day:

“Yom HaShoah is a solemn time to honour the memories of six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust, and to ensure we...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) has released this statement in response to communities in Kitchener Centre being left off the "hot spot" list in the Ford government’s vaccine rollout:

"For months now, Waterloo Region Public Health has advocated for Waterloo...

LONDON — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is urging Doug Ford to cap class sizes and take other immediate actions to make London schools safe for students to return to in-school learning after spring break.

On Tuesday, Horwath called for all teachers and education workers to be offered a vaccine...