OTTAWA — Following the firing of the TDSB’s Director of Education, NDP Shadow Minister for Education MPP Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West — Nepean) released this statement:

"Yet again, we see an incredibly consequential decision being made by Conservative-appointed supervisors behind closed doors. Parents have...

LONDON – Ontario NDP MPP Peggy Sattler (London West) confronted the Premier in Question Period today to take responsibility for Ontario’s worsening primary care crisis and stop forcing municipalities to pay out of pocket to recruit physicians.

“The Auditor General confirmed last week that 2 million...

QUEEN’S PARK – Deputy Leader Sol Mamakwa, Kiiwetinoong MPP and NDP Shadow Minister of Indigenous and Treaty Relations denounces the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs for willfully neglecting their duties to Indigenous peoples across Ontario.

This comes in response to the release of the Auditor General of...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario’s Official Opposition is continuing its call for a full public inquiry into Metrolinx; with the goal of giving Ontarians answers about long-delayed projects like the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT, and the as-of-yet undisclosed costs incurred by the province’s taxpayers.

Shadow Minister...

QUEEN'S PARK — NDP Shadow Minister for Health, France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) announced the tabling of a new bill: Massage Therapy Tax Act, 2025. The Bill would remove the unfair tax treatment levied against services provided by Registered Massage Therapists (RMT). Registered Massage Therapists are regulated...

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multiculturalism Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park) is continuing her call for Premier Doug Ford to fix the broken Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP).

Ford attempted to shift the blame to the federal government yesterday, offering no...

QUEEN’S PARK - The Official Opposition demanded clear answers from the Minister of Natural Resources on whether the government will take immediate steps to heat the Terrace Bay mill and protect both workers and the surrounding community. NDP MPPs Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) and Guy Bourgouin...

QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP has released 121 recommendations charting a path to end Ontario’s intimate partner violence (IPV) epidemic. These recommendations are part of their dissenting report, following the government’s IPV report.

“Survivors and experts are tired of study after study with no...

QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Shadow Minister for Education MPP Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West – Nepean) was joined by parents, students, educators and union leaders, to urge the Ford government to stop ignoring the reality in our classrooms and invest in our children’s future:

“Our kids are struggling,” said...

QUEEN’S PARK — The holidays are on the horizon, but tenants on both Triller and Spencer Avenues in Toronto are fighting to keep a roof over their heads. Their wealthy corporate landlord — Starlight — is hitting them with an above-guideline eight per cent rent increase, despite deplorable living...

QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPP Peggy Sattler has re-introduced the Safe Night Out Act, along with co-sponsors MPP Jamie West, MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, and MPP Alexa Gilmour. The bill would require trauma-informed, evidence-based sexual violence prevention training in every licensed bar and nightclub; strengthen...

LONDON — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Small Business, Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), pressed the Premier in Question Period today to finally recognize the deepening crisis in Ontario’s downtowns as a state of emergency and to provide municipalities with the urgent resources they need.

“What...