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Sattler urges Ford to pass paid sick days bill
QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Peggy Sattler (London West) is calling on Doug Ford to provide permanent paid sick days as she reintroduces the Stay Home If You Are Sick Act.
"It's shameful that Doug Ford, who has unlimited sick days and has never been forced to choose between putting food on the table...
Employment numbers show how deep health care crisis runs
5,400 fewer health care and social services workers in Ontario than a year ago – and the losses are accelerating
LONDON — New numbers from Statistics Canada show Ontario has thousands fewer health care workers than a year ago, and they’re working more overtime than any other point in the last 25...
NDP wants throne speech and budget to deal with health care crisis, inflation
QUEEN’S PARK — When the legislature resumes, the Official Opposition NDP wants Premier Doug Ford’s Conservatives to table a new budget — one that deals with the health care crisis, and with exploding inflation.
“People are paying too high a price right now, in more ways than one.” said NDP interim...
More than a ‘directive’ needed from Ford to get internationally educated doctors and nurses into hospitals
NDP Deputy Leader Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest), the Official Opposition critic for International Credentials, responded to the Conservative government’s directives to the College of Nurses of Ontario and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario:
“This announcement comes at a time when our...
Wong-Tam calls for budget funding to stop gender-based violence
NDP Critic for the Attorney General, Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) is calling on the provincial government to use their budget to fight back the growing epidemic of sexual violence Ontario.
Wong-Tam was joined at a press conference by Naomi Martey, sexual violence counsellor and advocate at the Toronto Rape...
Health care horrors won’t stop until Ford repeals Bill 124, takes action
Reacting to a Premier Doug Ford press conference, NDP Health Care critic France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) says that Ford is downplaying the crisis in Ontario’s hospitals to justify his government’s lack of action. Gélinas released the following statement:
“The painfully long waits, the rolling closures of...
NDP celebrates health cards reflecting Francophone names
KAPUSKASING AND SUDBURY — NDP Francophone Affairs critic Guy Bourgoin (Mushkegowuk-James Bay) and Health Care critic France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) issued the following statement to celebrate Ontario’s health cards finally carrying accents:
“The Francophone community has demanded for years...
Mpp speaks out against sexual assault, demands more funding needed to end gender-based violence
TORONTO – NDP Women's Social and Economic Opportunity Critic Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul’s) released the following statement on the troubling new report from Statistics Canada that shows the rate of police-reported sexual assault in 2021 was the highest it’s been since 1996.
“There is no excuse...
NDP calls out Jones for ignoring health care horrors
After 25 hospitals were impacted by long weekend closures, Health Minister Sylvia Jones is painting a rosy picture of the situation — and the NDP says that’s a big problem.
“For sure the programs are working…” Jones told CP24 in a one-on-one interview Tuesday afternoon. Jones was asked twice by CP24...
Statement from London NDP MPPs on The Forgotten 519
LONDON – London NDP MPPs Peggy Sattler (London West), Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), and Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) issued the following statement in response to the hunger strike planned by The Forgotten 519:
“Everyone should have the right to a decent place to live. People living in...
Where is Sylvia Jones?
NDP urges Health Minister to emerge as Ontario faces 14 hospital closures
QUEEN’S PARK — As Ontarians head into a long weekend and the province faces a hospital staffing crisis so dire the Ontario Nurses’ Association estimates at least 14 hospitals in Ontario are facing closures – among them the...
NDP to Ford: what are you doing to keep ERs open this weekend?
QUEEN’S PARK — The Official Opposition NDP wants to know what the Conservative government is doing to keep emergency rooms open through the long weekend.
“It’s terrifying to imagine rushing to an ER and finding the doors locked and the lights out.” Said NDP Health critic France Gélinas. “Where are...