Editorials, Letters & Political Commentary

Ontario’s third quarter fiscal update shows that Ford is deliberately starving health care and education of critical resources. NDP Finance critic, MPP Catherine Fife (Waterloo), released the following statement: “Budgets are about priorities. It’s clear from today’s fiscal update that the government has the resources and ability to invest in Ontarians and is deliberately and callously choosing not to. Over ...

The Ontario Federal Electoral Boundary Commission has submitted their final report on electoral boundaries today to the House of Commons which reduces representation in Northern Ontario, according to Carol Hughes, MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, and Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay. “With the final report, the number of ridings representing Northern Ontario are being reduced from ten to nine,” said Hughes. ...

The number of vacant nursing jobs in Ontario has skyrocketed to 9,230. In the midst of health funding negotiations, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says that’s evidence that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must build up the public health care system — not make it worse by letting Doug Ford poach nurses and doctors to work in for-profit clinics. According to Statistics ...

Le nombre de postes d’infirmières et d’infirmiers vacants en Ontario est passé à 9 230. Alors que les négociations sur le financement des soins de santé battent leur plein, le chef du NPD, Jagmeet Singh, estime que ce chiffre est la preuve que le premier ministre Justin Trudeau doit renforcer le système de santé public, au lieu de l’aggraver en laissant Doug Ford ...

NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) and Jessica Bell (University–Rosedale) called on Doug Ford to protect Ontarians’ access to justice by implementing reforms before the Ombudsman Report into Landlord Tenant Board (LTB) delays is released. “Ontarians need to be ready to fight like hell for access to justice. The LTB has been plagued by delays for years, with a backlog ...

When Transport Minister Omar Alghabra appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on January 12, he said he wasn’t hiding from the multiple meltdowns of Canada’s airlines and VIA Rail over the Christmas holidays.  But he was.   Alghabra and his government are hiding from an inevitable confrontation with more than a century of ...

Lundi, le député néo-démocrate Charlie Angus (Timmins–Baie James) dit qu’il s’attend à ce que le prochain budget aide les familles du Nord de l’Ontario qui en arrachent pour avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, gérer le coût élevé de la vie et avoir de bons emplois durables. « Les familles de tout le Nord de l’Ontario ont besoin de l’assurance ...

On Monday, NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay) says he expects to see help for families in Northern Ontario struggling to access quality health-care services, manage the high cost of living and have good, sustainable jobs in the upcoming budget. “Families all over Northern Ontario need some assurances that the government is going to help them meet the ...

Depuis que Doug Ford a été élu premier ministre de l’Ontario en 2018, les Ontariennes et Ontariens se sont rapidement habitués à un gouvernement qui a tendance à diriger avec son menton. C’est-à-dire que M. Ford choisit de diriger agressivement sans prudence pour atteindre les objectifs de la pensée conservatrice plutôt que ce qui est le mieux pour la population ...

Since Doug Ford was elected Premier of Ontario in 2018, Ontarians quickly became accustomed to a government that tends to lead with its chin. That is to say that Mr. Ford chooses to lead aggressively without caution to achieve the goals of Conservative thinking as opposed to what is best for the people of Ontario. As a result, it is ...

Thunder Bay – Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois joins her NDP colleagues in the Ontario legislature in decrying Doug Ford’s move to privatize 50 per cent of the province’s health care system by moving patients to private, for-profit clinics. This move will result in a decline in the quality of care as for-profit enterprises poach health care workers from the ...

The Government of Ontario may have finally taken its first real tangible step forward to make passenger rail service in the northeast a reality.   The Associate Minister of Transportation, Stan Cho, and his ministerial colleagues — Victor Fedeli (MPP for Nipissing), George Pirie (Timmins) and Graydon Smith (Parry Sound-Muskoka) — were among those who announced an investment of $139.5 ...

In the wake of a tragedy in London, Peggy Sattler (London West), Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), and Teresa Armstrong (London-Fanshawe) sent a letter to Doug Ford, urging him to commit to a provincial plan to address homelessness in London and across Ontario.   Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario Legislative Building, Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 January 11, 2023 ...

While in town as part of the government’s 2023 pre-budget consultations, Ontario NDP Finance critic Catherine Fife (Waterloo), Economic Development critic Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre), and deputy leader Sol Mamakwa ( Kiiwentinoong) held a press conference on January 9th, 2023 calling on the Ford government to implement better winter maintenance standards for Highways 11 and 17. “Northern Ontarians are ...

Sudbury MPP Jamie West, the NDP critic for Labour, issued the following statement in response to a campaign from Sudbury mine workers to reduce workers’ exposure to dangerous levels of Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM): “Ontarians are indebted to the miners who wake up every day and go to work in challenging environments. Our mining industry provides the raw materials, minerals ...