New Democrats welcome constitutional challenge for sex work reform
Today, NDP Justice Critic Randall Garrison made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsREALITY CHECK: Trudeau’s inaction ensures LTC profits endure
While new COVID variants rise across the country as we enter a third wave, Ottawa still hasn’t acted on the lessons learned from the first two waves. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsNDP Launches OSER Virtual Tour to Support Young People
MONTREAL – Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, along with Alexandre Boulerice, Deputy Leader and MP for Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, launched the OSER (dare) virtual tour, a campaign aimed at reaching out to young people and young families in Quebec to understand what is worrying them and to propose solutions to help them. The pandemic has affected…
DetailsReport: NDP find deplorable housing conditions in Nunavut due to decades of neglect by the federal government
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DetailsREALITY CHECK: O’Toole sides with corporations over families
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DetailsNDP Welcomes the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Federal Carbon Tax
NDP critic for Environment and Climate Change, Laurel Collins, issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsLiberals and Conservatives block NDP bill to improve ethical investment of Canada Pension Plan
OTTAWA – Today, Liberal and Conservatives refused to work with the NDP to ensure the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) invested ethically in ways that would make Canadians proud. NDP MP Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan–Malahat–Langford) had proposed a law that would require a company’s record on human rights, labour rights and environmental rights be considered before Canadians’…
DetailsMP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR DEFENDS WEST COAST PRAWN FISHERIES
In letter to Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans MacGregor asks for emergency review of changes to regulations on frozen spot prawns COWICHAN, BC – Today, MP Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan-Malahat-Langford) sent a letter to MP Ken McDonald, Chair of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, asking for an emergency review of changes to regulations…
DetailsLiberals and Conservatives vote against Right to Safe, Clean, Healthy Environment as a Human Right
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DetailsLiberals and Conservatives choose profits over the care of our loved ones
OTTAWA — Today, Liberals and Conservatives joined forces to vote down an NDP motion calling to eliminate profits out of the care of our loved ones. This despite the fact that residents and workers in for-profit long-term care homes were the hardest hit during the pandemic. And despite the fact that more infections and more…
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