TORONTO — Official Opposition Housing critic Jessica Bell and the NDP are celebrating a ruling issued Friday by the Ontario Human Rights Commission that says landlords can’t ban air conditioning, calling it a human...

QUEEN’S PARK – During question period Thursday, NDP Labour Critic Jamie West (Sudbury) called on Premier Doug Ford to ensure that members of CUPE's Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) can keep up with the rising cost of affordability by providing them with a pay increase that keeps pace with the...

QUEEN’S PARK — Wayne Gates, Ontario NDP critic for Long-Term Care, Home Care and Retirement Homes, is listing the three most troubling parts of Premier Doug Ford’s new long-term care legislation:

WITHOUT CONSENT. Contrary to Long Term Care Minister Paul Calandra’s claims, the legislation will allow...

QUEEN’S PARK — Conservative Premier Doug Ford and House Leader Paul Calandra have followed through on threats Calandra made. PC MPP Nina Tangri (Mississauga—Streetsville) lost the speaker’s election, therefore Calandra has stripped NDP MPPs Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul’s) and Jennifer French (Oshawa) of...

Official Opposition says health care changes will only make the staffing crisis worse

QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Health critic France Gélinas released the following statement in response to the government’s scheme to send surgeries to for-profit private clinics and force alternate level of care...

Recent census shows gradual decline of French language in the country

QUEEN’S PARK — Today, Stats Canada published its most recent data from the 2021 census pertaining to languages. This was another disappointment for the French community as it shows that the French language is on a constant decline, said...

QUEEN’S PARK -- The Ontario NDP is calling on Premier Doug Ford to bring back the practice-ready assessment program for qualified internationally trained doctors and nurses. Ford's government axed the program in 2018.

Practice-ready assessment offers the most qualified internationally-trained physicians a...

TORONTO — NDP Housing critic Jessica Bell (University-Rosedale) is re-introducing legislation with MPP Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale-High Park) to crack down on money laundering and tax fraud in Ontario's housing market — one of many measures needed to rein in skyrocketing home prices.

The NDP’s bill...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Health critic France Gélinas released the following statement in response to a CityNews report that revealed Premier Doug Ford’s government is planning legislation that could shunt people into long-term care homes outside of their community, apparently without their consent or the consent of...

QUEEN’S PARK — With the Gogama nursing station slated to close Sept. 1, NDP Health critic France Gélinas is urging the government to ensure the community isn’t cut off from its only source of primary care.

The government has known about the looming closure of the nursing station since late July, when it...

QUEEN’S PARK— MPP Lise Vaugeois, Ontario NDP critic for Persons Living with Disabilities, called on Doug Ford Wednesday to stop the contracting-out of mail sorting services for Ontario Disability Support Progarm (ODSP) recipients, as workers ring the alarm about delayed and suspended benefits.

In a release...

QUEEN’S PARK ­— Statistics Canada released new inflation numbers Tuesday. Overall inflation growth was a whopping 7.6 per cent in July while food prices soared 9.9 per cent, a half point higher than June; and natural gas prices soared 45.3 per cent in Ontario thanks to an Ontario Energy Board rate hike. NDP...