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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP 2SLGBTQ+ Issues critic Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) is calling on the Ford government to provide Ontarians with paid sick days and other supports to recover from monkeypox and prevent further spread of the illness.

Wong-Tam was joined at a press conference by Len Tooley, an HIV and...