TORONTO — Mike Schreiner made the following statement on the International Day of Education:
“On the International Day of Education, I want to thank educators and staff for keeping kids learning during the pandemic. It’s been a very difficult two years, filled with uncertainty and anxiety for parents, students and education workers.
We would have …
“The Premier will blame everyone but himself for the healthcare capacity crisis in Ontario.
If he really cared about addressing the nursing shortage, he’d immediately repeal Bill 124.
We are 2 years into the pandemic and his Bill 124 is attacking nurses when we need them the most right now.
His words don’t match up …
“It’s time for the Premier to wake up and finally protect workers in Ontario.
Too many workers are forced to choose between going to work sick or staying home and losing pay.
It’s an impossible choice.
That’s why I’m calling for 10 permanent, fully-funded paid sick days.As Ontario starts to reopen, the Premier’s government needs …
“As the Omicron variant sweeps through our province, we need to ensure that Ontarians on the frontlines are being compensated and treated fairly,” Schreiner wrote in a letter to the Minister of Health.
Hospitals and long-term care homes are under extreme pressure due to staffing shortages. Yet for many PSWs, the last time …
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner is calling on the government to speed up the delayed pandemic pay process for PSWs, which is leaving thousands of health-care workers underpaid.
“As the Omicron variant sweeps through our province, we need to ensure that Ontarians on the frontlines are being compensated and treated fairly,” Schreiner wrote in a …
Mike Schreiner held a virtual news conference to call for all-party collaboration on housing and to call on the Premier to “get serious” about addressing the housing affordability crisis.
Notably, no opposition parties were invited to the Ford government’s housing summit today.
“This is a pattern,” Schreiner said. “ The Premier refuses to listen to …
“The Premier insists on plowing ahead with the Holland Marsh Highway (Bradford Bypass), despite clear evidence that it would be an environmental disaster.
The highway would increase climate pollution by 87 million kilograms per year, pave over 42 acres of the Holland Marsh, and slice right through the Greenbelt.
Less than 30% of Lake …
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner made the following statement on the COVID-19 outbreaks at prisons across Ontario:
“Provincial prisons across Ontario are experiencing mass COVID-19 outbreaks. The situation is out of control, but the government is nowhere in sight on the issue.
Fifteen of Ontario’s 25 jails are in outbreak. And 2,000 inmates are in medical …
TORONTO — This morning, Mike Schreiner held a virtual news conference and called for significant investment in student mental health as kids return to in-person learning.
“As kids head back to school this week, student mental health has to be a top priority,” Schreiner said. “Access to mental health care should not be …
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner made the following statement on the Paris Galt Moraine:
“If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that health matters.
And that Ontarians need fresh air to breathe, healthy, local food to eat and clean water to drink.
That’s why it’s vital the government passes my bill: the Paris Galt Moraine Conservation …