NDP MPPs call for Bramptonโ€™s fair share of vaccines as COVID-19 positivity skyrockets

BRAMPTON โ€” With the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive in Brampton exploding again, Bramptonโ€™s NDP MPPs Gurratan Singh (Brampton East), Sara Singh (Brampton Centre) and Kevin Yarde (Brampton North) are calling on the Ford government to rush more vaccines to their

Outdoor mask-wearing no longer required in Israel as infection drops

Amid a drop in COVID-19 infection rates in Israel, the country’s Health Ministry has cancelled the mandatory wearing of face masks in the open-air. “In light of the morbidity figures that continue to be low throughout the country … Director-General of the Ministry

Liberals stand still while third wave rages in Ontario-NDP

NDP health critic Don Davies made the following statement on the need to invoke the Emergencies Act in Ontario: โ€œThe situation facing Ontario right now is unprecedented. Doctors, nurses and health care professionals are crying out for help as case numbers and hospitalizations

Liberals help the ultra-rich get richer in budget 2021-NDP

In a recent Abacus poll, 80 per cent of Canadians agree with a wealth tax but, so far, the Liberals have failed to act OTTAWA โ€“ During the past year when so many everyday Canadians, small businesses and workers across the country struggled

Doug Fordโ€™s terrible record on paid sick days for workers-NDP

QUEENโ€™S PARK – Doug Ford has never supported paid sick days. He even went out of his way to speak against the federal program while not bringing in provincial paid sick days, and spent the spring attacking any notion of provincial paid sick

Strengthen the immune system to fight corona, include these things in the diet

The whole world is facing the second wave of Covid-19 these days. This movement is more dangerous than the first. Due to the increasing number of cases, neither beds nor oxygen cylinders are being received in hospitals on time. It is important that

24/7 AstraZeneca vaccines now available : Councillor Dhillon

Regional Councillor Gurpreet Dhillon told to GTA News Media that 24/7 AstraZeneca vaccines now available for 40 years of age and older at select Shoppers Drug Marts. Book online at https://covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations

Phoolka urges Kunwar Vijay Pratap to withdraw allegations against lawyer Rajwinder Bains

HS Phoolka has telephoned Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh and requested him to withdraw the allegation against senior advocate Rajinder Singh Bains. It was alleged that Bains had joined hands with the accused. In an interview to media yesterday, Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh had

DIG Gurpreet Bhullar to be made a member of SIT probing indecency cases: SPS Parmar

Inspector General of Police SPS Parmar,ย Border Range, Amritsar, who is probing the cases of indecency, has recommended the appointment of DIG Gurpreet Bhullar as a member of SIT. Parmar has written letters to Director Bureau of Investigation Arpit Shukla and DGP Punjab Dinkar

Horwathย plans to putย paid sick daysย to a vote, Ford government tries to prevent vote

Ford government threatening procedural blockades to try to block paid sick days motion QUEENโ€™S PARK โ€”ย For months Doug Ford and his PC MPPs have been refusing the paid sick days plan called for by countless experts and workers alongsideย Andrea Horwath andย theย Ontario NDP. But