Politics, Editorials & Letters

Les défis liés à l’itinérance pour les femmes, les filles et les personnes de divers genres ne sont pas insurmontables, mais ils sont différents de ceux vécus par les hommes, selon Carol Hughes, députée d’Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing. Mme Hughes a prononcé un discours devant le Parlement, dans lequel elle citait le Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network, qui qualifie l’itinérance chez les femmes, les ...

The challenges related to homelessness for women, girls, and gender diverse people aren’t insurmountable, but they are different than those for men, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes delivered a statement in parliament citing the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network who call homelessness amongst women, girls, and gender diverse peoples in Canada a crisis hiding in plain sight. ...

Have you ever been to the Heritage Railway and Carousel Company in North Bay?  It’s pretty cool.  Each year, prior to the pandemic of course, the attraction sees over 100,000 visitors stop by to ride the miniature train as well as a truly classic carousel. It is classic in the truest sense of the word.  It is a rebuild of ...

Avez-vous déjà été à la Heritage Railway and Carousel Company à North Bay? C’est vraiment cool. Chaque année, avant la pandémie, bien sûr, l’attraction recevait plus de 100000 visiteurs s’arrêter pour prendre le train miniature ainsi qu’un carrousel vraiment classique. C’est classique dans le vrai sens du terme. Il s’agit d’une reconstruction d’un carrousel original de 1908, avec des chevaux ...

On Thursday, May 27th during the Question Period NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay) secured a commitment from the Liberal government to address the worsening COVID-19 crisis in Northern Ontario. “Over the last week, the city of Timmins and the community of Moosonee declared a state of emergency over the spike in COVID,” said Angus in the House of Commons, ...

With vision threatening conditions projected to increase by as much as 29% over the next decade, it’s time for parliament to help shape a comprehensive strategy that can put a dent in that trajectory.  That is the message that Carol Hughes is sharing with parliamentarians as she encourages them to get behind her motion to develop a National Strategy for ...

Alors que l’on prévoit une augmentation de 29 % des troubles de la vue au cours de la prochaine décennie, il est temps que le Parlement participe à l’élaboration d’une stratégie globale susceptible d’infléchir cette trajectoire.  C’est le message que Carol Hughes transmet aux parlementaires en les encourageant à soutenir sa motion visant à élaborer une stratégie nationale d’action pour ...

Secretive … Aloof … Lacking Transparency …   These are just some of the terms one might use to describe the provincial government’s handling of restoring passenger rail services in north-eastern Ontario.   Over the span of a thousand days, various politicians, ministries, and agencies of the Crown have provided the public with a series of Coles Notes updates related ...

Premier Doug Ford was always opposed any program that offers any help to workers to stay home when they are sick. One of Doug Ford’s first actions as premier was to take away Ontario’s two measly paid sick days. When a limited federal program was introduced to provide small supports to some workers who do not have paid sick days, ...

Alors que les craintes de pandémie s’intensifient au milieu de la plus grande vague jamais enregistrée, le budget de lundi offre une gamme de mesures mitigées et a souligne la réticence du gouvernement à demander aux plus riches du Canada de contribuer un peu plus à leur pays, selon la députée d’Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Carol Hughes. C’est l’une des principales conclusions du ...

With pandemic concerns growing amidst the strongest wave yet, Monday’s budget offered a mixed bag of measures and highlighted the government’s reticence to ask Canada’s wealthiest  to contribute a little more to their country according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. That was one of the biggest take-aways from the budget that Hughes is describing as more of an election document ...

Suze Morrison, MPP for Toronto Centre and NDP critic for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls response, issued the following statement on the tragic murder of Cileana Taylor, a young Annishnaabe woman from Curve Lake First Nation: “I want to express my sorrow and anger at the loss of Cileana Taylor. I offer my sincerest condolences to Cileana’s family, ...

J’attends avec impatience la semaine de circonscription d’avril. Je pense que je suis prêt pour un certain temps loin de Queen’s Park et une pause de cette longue route que je voyage dans les deux sens chaque fin de semaine. J’ai toujours soutenu que, loin d’être une perte de temps monotone chaque fin de semaine, cela me donne en fait ...

I’m looking forward to the April constituency week.  I think I’m ready for some time away from Queen’s Park and a break from that long road I travel both ways every weekend.  I’ve always maintained that, far from being a monotonous waste of time each weekend, it actually provides me with a wonderful opportunity to really think things through uninterrupted.  ...

On Saturday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh presented the NDP’s plan to help young people thrive instead of being buried in debt. The NDP’s plan includes putting a moratorium on student loan payments, cancelling up to $20,000 per student of federal student loan debt and giving new graduates a five-year head start without having to repay any federal student loan. While ...