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Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew rallied supporters on the final Sunday of the provincial election campaign, while Progressive Conservative Leader Heather Stefanson continued to stay out of the media spotlight. Kinew told NDP members not to take the party’s lead in opinion polls for granted and to work to get …
Read More »Manitoba NDP says it would make Orange Shirt Day a statutory holiday if elected – Winnipeg
Manitoba New Democrats are promising to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province next year if they win Tuesday’s election. Leader Wab Kinew says Manitobans should be able to participate, if they choose, in honouring and commemorating residential school survivors and the children …
Read More »Manitoba election countdown: Unofficial campaign heats up as PCs, NDP enter tight race
Manitobans will go to the polls in exactly one month — Tuesday, Oct. 3 — but unofficial campaigns are already well underway. Incumbent Premier Heather Stefanson will try to lead her Progressive Conservatives to a third consecutive victory in the province but she faces a strong challenge from the NDP. …
Read More »Manitoba NDP emergency room plan just one piece of health-care puzzle, experts say – Winnipeg
A promise by Manitoba’s Opposition New Democrats to re-open three Winnipeg emergency rooms that were converted into urgent care centres in 2017 is a step toward re-establishing faith in the province’s health-care system, experts say, but is only one piece of the puzzle. In an announcement Monday, NDP Leader Wab …
Read More »Premier Ford stands by housing minister in ongoing Ontario Greenbelt scandal
Ontario Premier Doug Ford scoffed at suggestions his government’s controversial Greenbelt land swap amounted to corruption as he addressed reporters for the first time since a high profile resignation over the growing scandal. During an 18-minute news conference outside his Queen’s Park office, the premier also denied any knowledge of …
Read More »Manitoba election: NDP vows to freeze gas tax – Winnipeg
An NDP government would temporarily halt the provincial fuel tax, the party says. New Democrat Leader Wab Kinew promised to stop collecting the tax if his party forms government after the Oct. 3 election. “Manitobans need help right now and a Manitoba NDP is going to deliver it,” he said …
Read More »Manitoba election: NDP promise year-round $10-a-day child care – Winnipeg
A Manitoba NDP government would expand the $10-a-day child care program to summer and statutory holidays, leader Wab Kinew promised Sunday. Right now, child care costs for school-aged children in summer months, on professional development days and holidays can be $18 to over $20 per day, a figure Kinew said …
Read More »Ontario NDP says misconduct allegations ‘substantiated’ against ex-caucus member
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 15, 2023 4:41 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says a third-party investigator has substantiated allegations of workplace misconduct against a former caucus member. Stiles asked Michael Mantha to take a leave of absence when …
Read More »Manitoba election: PCs on track to underspend $1B on health care, NDP critic says – Winnipeg
The Manitoba NDP claims that since the Progressive Conservatives came into power in 2016, they have underspent on health care by over $600 million. At a press conference in Windsor Park, Health Minister Audrey Gordon’s constituency, NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara said the Tories are on track to leave $1 …
Read More »Battlefords Union Hospital ICU closed for weeks, memo shows
Just weeks after a leaked document showed an ICU bed in Regina was closed, another document has revealed that the ICU at the Union Hospital in the Battlefords has been closed for weeks. The document outlines the intensive care unit was shut down on July 13 and will remain closed …
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