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Horwath responds to record-high case count
Despite completing barely over 44,000 tests, Ontario has counted a record-high 978 cases of COVID-19 Saturday. Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement:
“It never should have come to this. Doug Ford’s refusal to invest in stopping the growth of the second wave is costing us...
Roberts votes to keep profits in long-term care after horrors at local homes
OTTAWA — With Extendicare West End Villa still in active COVID-19 outbreak, Jeremy Roberts, Conservative MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, helped defeat an NDP motion Tuesday aimed at better protecting seniors by replacing for-profit long-term care with a fully public and not-for-profit system.
Seniors were...
Gélinas: Ford government ignoring violence against health care workers
QUEEN’S PARK – A horrific attack on a nurse that fractured her skull and caused brain bleeding has not prompted the Ford government to lift a finger to make nurses safer at work, said NDP Health critic France Gélinas.
On Wednesday, Gélinas asked the government about the horrific attack at Southlake...
Armstrong says legislation needed to guarantee quality hands-on care for long-term care residents
LONDON – Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), Official Opposition NDP critic for long-term care, has released a statement in response to news that three London-area care homes rate the highest in Ontario for violations. According to CBC’s Marketplace, three for-profit London-area homes rank among the top 10 in...
Commission reveals long-term care ignored in Ford’s COVID-19 planning and response
QUEEN’S PARK — An interim report from the long-term care commission reveals the sickening fact that the Ford government completely ignored the people in long-term care as the COVID-19 virus swept in. The commission "heard that long-term care homes were forgotten in the initial provincial plans to control the...
Northwest Toronto MPPs say Ford must fund faster local testing for COVID-19
Residents in the northwest corner waiting two weeks and more for test results, despite symptoms
YORK SOUTH—WESTON — Northwest Toronto NDP MPPs Faisal Hassan (York South—Weston) and Tom Rakocevic (Humber River—Black Creek) urged the Ford government to commit to funding faster testing in Toronto's...
NDP plan will provide better care for seniors in Northeastern Ontario
TIMMINS - KAPUSKASING — NDP MPPs Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk-James Bay) and Gilles Bisson (Timmins) said that the Ford government’s days of shortchanging seniors care must come to an end.
The NDP’s recently released a plan to provide a record investment in seniors care will mean new long-term care spaces,...
NDP: Scrapping ranked ballots was a complete surprise to local municipalities
London and Kingston voters chose the ranked ballot system
QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPPs Peggy Sattler (London West), the NDP’s critic for Democratic Reform, and Ian Arthur (Kingston and the Islands), say Doug Ford is overriding local democracy by scrapping ranked ballots without consulting voters or their...
FACT CHECK: Has Doug Downey really never met a lobbyist? They signed up to talk to him
QUEEN’S PARK — On Thursday, Doug Downey claimed he has never met with lobbyists from the long-term care industry. But throughout the summer, lobbyists were signing up to talk directly to Downey.
Lobbyists are legally required to indicate who they plan to lobby – and in May, June and July, lobbyists in...
Horwath calls on Ford to remove nursing home chains and government from legislation
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling on the premier to exclude the Ford Government and private long-term care chains from shocking legislation that shields them from accountability.
The Ford government’s bill, revealed earlier this week, aims to block the families who are looking for justice from for-profit...
NDP plan to provide culturally responsive care for Peel seniors
PEEL — Under an NDP government, seniors in Peel will be able to live safely and comfortably in their own home for longer and access culturally responsive home care and long-term care, if and when the time comes. That’s because Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath and Ontario’s New Democrats are promising...
NDP MPPs call on Ford to help Toronto buy made-in-Ontario transit vehicles to create jobs, ease overcrowding
TORONTO AND THUNDER BAY — MPPw Jessica Bell (University Rosedale) and MPP Judith Monteith-Farrell (Thunder Bay-Atikokan) are calling on the Ford government to help Toronto buy more made-in-Ontario buses, streetcars, and subways to maintain service levels and stop service cuts.
On Thursday, the TTC is voting...
