OTTAWA – On Thursday, NDP MP Bonita Zarrillo tabled a bill to create a National Strategy to reduce the amount of wasted food in Canada. This comes at a time when more Canadians than ever before are being forced to turn to food banks and people are having to put fresh fruit and vegetables back…
OTTAWA – On Thursday, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor, joined by members of the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium called on the Liberal government to support his plan to create a National Brain Injury Strategy, as more than 1.5 million Canadians have been left to cope with the aftermaths of brain injuries alone. Read the full release on NDP…
NDP successfully calls grocery CEOs back to committee to testify on their plan to lower food prices after Liberals ask nicely approach fails Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Monday, NDP Veterans Affairs Critic Rachel Blaney hosted an event on Parliament Hill to mark her study into women veterans’ experiences – an issue the government has never investigated, which has hurt veteran services in Canada. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Tuesday, NDP critic for Natural Resources Charlie Angus (Timmins – James Bay), and NDP critic for Emergency Preparedness Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay), joined by award-winning author John Vaillant, urged the Liberals to put forward a real plan to stop Big Oil’s unchecked greed and place a strong emissions cap on Big Oil to stop their decades-long…
In reaction to the Parliamentary Budgetary Officer’s (PBO) report on single-payer universal pharmacare, NDP Health Critic Don Davies issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site