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NDP calls on Ford to implement Homes Ontario following expert reports showing a greater need for non-market housing options
OTTAWA – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Housing, Catherine McKenney (Ottawa Centre) is echoing the calls for more non-market housing options following a report from the United Way of Greater Toronto and Co-operative Housing Federation laying out the blueprint to transform Ontario’s housing landscape and address...
STILES: Is Doug Ford making multi-billion dollar policy decision based on his friends’ phone calls? Latest Highway 413 revelation raises serious questions
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles released the following statement in response to the Global News story about the Premier’s personal consideration to re-route Highway 413 to accommodate the requests of a developer and...
NDP: Ontario’s dwindling housing numbers show that Ford’s Conservatives have given up
QUEEN’S PARK – After months of sitting on the province’s most up-to-date housing numbers, the government has finally updated the housing supply progress tracker, showing that the province is nowhere near meeting their target to build 1.5 million homes by...
VAUGEOIS: The Ford government failure to resolve staffing issues in Wildland Firefighting is leaving the province unprotected
THUNDER BAY – Following an urgent fire ban in the Muskoka region and a new ravaging fire in the Kawartha Lakes region Thunder Bay – Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois released the following...
Ontario lost 2,800 jobs this past month, NDP calls for stronger measures to protect workers and create good jobs
TORONTO -- Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Finance Jessica Bell (University--Rosedale) sounds alarm on tens of thousands of lost jobs in Ontario’s key industries and calls on the Ford government for stronger measures to create and protect good, stable jobs. The following is her statement:
“Ontarians are...
NDP: Ontario’s youth are ready to work, but the government is failing them
QUEEN’S PARK – Shadow Minister for Finance & Shadow Minister for Treasury Board, Jessica Bell (University–Rosedale); and Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Catherine Fife (Waterloo), issued the following statement in response to the Toronto Youth Employment Postcard Report,...
“This is outrageous”: NDP responds to Eglinton LRT vehicles getting too old to operate after years of delays
TORONTO – NDP Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) issued the following statement in response to the Eglinton LRT Crosstown being delayed due to its aging vehicles.
“This is...
Stiles to Ford: Defend progress on pharmacare and ensure Ottawa keeps their promise to Ontarians
TORONTO — Leader of the Official Opposition NDP Marit Stiles is urging Premier Doug Ford to stand up for Ontarians and hold the federal government to their commitment on delivering pharmacare. The request comes after the Federal Minister of Health refused to commit to funding pharmacare in all provinces and...
Official Opposition NDP issues statement on Donald Trump’s latest tariff hikes
QUEEN’S PARK – Leader of Ontario’s Official Opposition NDP, Marit Stiles, and Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Catherine Fife, issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s latest tariff hikes:
“Every escalation and provocation from Donald Trump adds to...
Bourgouin urges the government to adopt a “buy it here, build it here” strategy to support the lumber industry
MUSHKEGOWUK – JAMES BAY – NDP MPP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Forestry Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) is calling for a strategy to support the lumber industry in response to Trump’s tariffs threatening the sector:
“The lumber industry is vital to Ontario’s economy,” said...
Stiles brings All in for Ontario tour to Waterloo, urges province to stop the cuts on post-secondary education and fund the future
WATERLOO – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP, brought her All in for Ontario tour to Waterloo. Stiles joined Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation, and Trade Catherine Fife (Waterloo), and Shadow Minister for Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security Peggy Sattler...
NDP demands accountability and transparency as Metrolinx faces $8.2 billion in lawsuits
TORONTO – Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) and Shadow Minister for Infrastructure & Transportation Jennifer French (Oshawa) issued the following statement in response to a recent report that revealed Metrolinx is facing lawsuits with claims totalling $8.2 billion:
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