THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to halt any further development plans for Ontario Place, engage in meaningful and transparent public consultations to gather input and ideas for the future of Ontario Place, develop a comprehensive and sustainable plan for the revitalization of Ontario Place that prioritizes environmental sustainability, accessibility, and inclusivity, and ensure that any future development of Ontario Place is carried out in a transparent and accountable manner, with proper oversight, public input, and adherence to democratic processes.
WE, the undersigned, know all too well that this is no glitch and petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to:
WE, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the impact of this backlog on access to justice, particularly for vulnerable Ontarians relying on timely adjudication.
WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to support the Fixing Tribunals Ontario Backlogs Act, 2024 to:
We urge the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to pass the Fixing Tribunals Ontario Backlogs Act, 2024 promptly, ensuring that the integrity of Ontario’s justice system is restored and that access to justice remains a right for all Ontarians.
WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to create an Emergency School Safety Plan in consultation with workers that includes:
WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to:
Enough excuses. Our shelters are bursting at the seams, encampments are growing, and it's only getting worse — Ford must release Canada - Ontario Housing Benefit Funding now.
Ontarians deserve a real plan to reduce and end homelessnes that includes:
It is unacceptable that Ontarians are facing a two-tier system of testing where those with money can afford private PCR tests, while every day Ontarians are left not knowing if they are infected with COVID-19.
Ontario must make Rapid Antigen Tests free and widely available to all Ontarians now. Your government must increase funding so that everyone who needs a PCR test to keep their community safe can quickly access them.
Our government should do everything possible to protect Ontarioans. We need an air-tight plan to prevent outbreaks and exposures.
Now, more than ever, it’s time to invest in the public health of our kids. I urge you to listen to public health experts and take action to:
Liberal and Conservative governments have spent decades downloading costs of essential services to local governments;
Under the Ford government, municipalities of all sizes are being forced to make impossible choices – whether to prioritize ambulance services, infrastructure, affordable housing, highway maintenance, or the mental health and addictions epidemic;
Therefore, we the undersigned support the prospect of a New Deal for Ontario through the following measures:
Cutting funding to stop overdose deaths means people struggling with addiction across Ontario will die.
Ontarians deserve a real plan to tackle the overdose crisis that includes:
In brutally hot weather, many Ontario renters are living in miserable and even dangerous conditions because their apartment is too hot and they don’t have air-conditioning.
The 2021 heatwave in British Columbia contributed to 777 deaths, many of the deceased were elderly or vulnerable and living alone in unairconditioned apartments. Heat kills.
As the climate crisis deepens, we have a responsibility to take immediate action to ensure everyone lives in a safe and comfortable home.
It's been three years since the Ontario NDP introduced a motion calling on the Ontario government to establish a maximum temperature law for rentals, and permit tenants to safely install air-conditioning units in their homes. It's past time it becomes law.
Ontario tenants are being squeezed and loopholes in our rental laws like Above Guideline Rent Increases (AGIs) make it easy for big landlords to charge tenants even more.
Under the current rules, landlords are allowed to apply for AGIs to make significant renovations or repairs, but this system is being misused. Instead, landlords who fail to maintain their buildings are being awarded AGIs for cosmetic improvements that increase a building's value but not its living conditions.
The Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) requires landlords to maintain their properties using rent for upkeep, but this law that is poorly enforced. As a result, landlords who chronically ignore maintenance requests and keep buildings in chronic disrepair for years can win an AGI.
Over the past decade, the number of AGI applications has surged by 250%, affecting over 200,000 households in Ontario, and it’s the biggest and most profitable landlords in Canada that benefit the most.
The AGI process needs to be reformed to protect tenants from exploitation. The Ontario government must take the necessary steps to close these loopholes and ban the use of AGIs on all buildings with six or more units. This ban would prevent big landlords from using the RTA to boost their profits at the expense of a renter's right to live in a safe and affordable home.
Therefore we, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to enact the following measures:
(1) Immediately invest in repairing the current Ontario Science facility where it is currently located while minimizing closures where possible
(2) Hold and respect community consultations about the Ontario Science Centre's future
(3) Ensure no Ontario Science Centre workers are laid off as a result of repairs and closures
(4) Stop plans to move the Science Centre from Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon; and stop plans to convert Ontario Place into a spa.
We, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and call on the Minister of Health to urgently:
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to commit to ensuring that there are no cuts to waste water surveillance in Ontario, and work with medical experts to expand waste water surveillance to monitor emerging and endemic infectious diseases.
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
WHEREAS child care centres province-wide are forced to close rooms and limit enrolment due to staffing shortages and retention challenges, aggravating the growing disparity between demand and availability of child care spaces, particularly in underserved areas referred to as “child care deserts”;
WHEREAS experts estimate Ontario may need as many as 65,000 new child care workers to meet the expected demand for $10/day child care;
WHEREAS without proper child care operating funding and a strategy to recruit and retain child care workers through setting a salary scale, increasing wages, and implementing decent work standards, parents will lose access to affordable child care; and
WHEREAS the vitally important work of Early Years and Child Care workers has been historically undervalued, with low pay, poor working conditions, and high turnover;
WHEREAS Soleiman (Soli) Faqiri was a man with schizoaffective disorder who was subjected to restraints, pepper spray and isolation while in prison, which ultimately led to his death.
WHEREAS during Soleiman Faqiri's time in correctional facilities, he was awaiting a medical evaluation but was not able to see a psychiatrist or have access to hospital resources despite experiencing an acute mental health crisis.
WHEREAS the inquest in Soleiman Faqiri's death deemed his murder a tragic and preventable homicide.
WHEREAS the inquest report offered 57 recommendations to the provincial government to improve mental health resources in the criminal justice system.
WHEREAS prisons are not an appropriate place to treat mental health crises.
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
WHEREAS chronic underfunding has led to overcrowded classrooms, crumbling school infrastructure, and a lack of supports for students with special needs; and
WHEREAS larger class sizes negatively impact student learning, engagement and achievement, especially for students who are struggling or have special education needs; and
WHEREAS the Ford government's cuts to education funding and increases to class size averages will mean the loss of thousands of teaching position; and
WHEREAS Ontario already has the lowest per-student funding in Canada, despite having among the largest average class sizes; and
WHEREAS investing in public education is one of the most important commitments a government can make to ensure a bright future for our province;
Nearly 300,000 Ontario caregivers have experienced financial hardship because of their caregiving responsibilities. Right now, caregivers in Ontario have no way to access direct financial supports when they are forced to leave their job, reduce their hours, or drop out of school in order to take care of their children, parents, or family members.
This is wrong. We live in the richest province in one of the richest countries in the world. That's why Ontario's NDP am introducing legislation to create a direct financial benefit for caregivers in the province of Ontario - and we need your help to get this done.
Add your name and take action now.
Here's what our Homes Ontario plan aims to achieve:
Establish a $15 Billion Fund: In collaboration with the CMHC, we will create a revolving fund to finance the construction of new nonmarket rental homes.
Build 250,000 Affordable Homes: Over the next ten years, we will build at least 250,000 new affordable and non-market homes on public land across the province.
Rehabilitate Aging Housing: We will fund the rehabilitation of aging affordable housing in partnership with federal and municipal governments.
Support Deeply Affordable Housing: We will provide capital subsidies and public land for nonmarket housing intended to be deeply affordable.
By supporting Homes Ontario, you're helping us take a significant step towards solving the housing crisis in Ontario. Let's work together to build a province where everyone has a place to call home.
Wearing cultural and national clothing anywhere, especially in the legislature, is something we should be proud of. It's part of who we are, as Ontarians.
But Doug Ford's Conservatives just voted to uphold the ban on keffiyehs in the Ontario Legislature. It's alarming, and it's not what Ontarians expect of their elected government.
We're not only taking a stand with Palestinans, Arab and Muslim communities, and everyone who chooses to wear cultural and national clothing, we're taking action to demand Doug Ford reverse the keffiyeh ban.
Join us by signing the petition.
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
WHEREAS there were 1,326 cases of sexual assault in 2022 withdrawn or stayed before trial;
WHEREAS there were more than 12,156 cases of sexual assault reported in Ontario in 2022 yet more than 80% of sexual assault cases go unreported;
WHEREAS the criminal court system is an extremely hostile space for survivors and justice is often delayed or denied;
WHEREAS the 2019 Auditor General report made recommendations to proactively report on sexual assault cases and intimate partner violence cases through the court system and capture reasons for cases being stayed and withdrawn before trial;
WHEREAS the Independent Legal Advice (ILA) Program is insufficient in meeting survivors’ needs;
WHEREAS the Victim Quick Response Program is restrictive and unsustainable to long-term healing;
Therefore, we the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to adopt Recommendations 1 and 3 of the Auditor General’s 2019 Annual Report; and to make the ILA program more accessible to survivors; and to review the Victim Quick Response Program to ensure it is meeting its mandate.
Download a copy of this petition here.
Access a copy of the 2019 Auditor General's report here.
Whereas, the Conservatives' their ‘business case’ that shows the one-time cost of relocating the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place would be twice the cost of completing the necessary repairs at the current site.
Whereas, moving the Science Centre will take a vital public institution away from Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park simply to justify Ford's vanity mega-spa project.
Whereas, communities have not been consulted about Ford's half-baked scheme.
Wheras, the business case assumed that the new, half-sized Science Centre would be built on top of a new, publicly funded parking structure located next to the proposed Therme spa. The costs of the parking structure (which has been estimated at over $500 million) were excluded from the business case.
Whereas, the Conservatives’ ‘business case’ has been called “all spin,” “bunk,” “torqued and twisted to serve the government’s desired result,” and has been identified as having “clear problems with the province’s math."
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to help save lives across the province by:
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to help save lives across the province by:
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
Whereas Phil Verster has mismanaged multi-billion dollar transit projects including the Eglinton Crosstown and Mimico GO Station Transit-Oriented Community;
Wheras communities across Ontario have been calling for Metrolinx to change how they interact with communities for decades;
Whereas Metrolinx projects are consistently behind schedule and over-budget;
Whereas Phil Verster is the 5th highest paid public servant in Ontario, earning more than $900,000 a year;
Whereas Phil Verster has advocated for a privatized transit construction model that uses public money but has failed entirely to deliver projects on time and within-budget;
Right now, family doctors are stuck spending 40 per cent of their time on paperwork instead of seeing patients.
By hiring more administrative and interdisciplinary health staff around doctors, we can significantly reduce this burden, allowing them to focus on what they do best: caring for patients.
While the Ford government continues to recklessly expand for-profit health care, Marit Stiles and the NDP are ready to take decisive action that puts patients first.
Add your name to support Marit's solution to invest in administrative staff and integrated care options, unlocking more time for doctors to take on an additional 2 million patients – starting right now.
You can use this website to copy and paste the draft email to reach your City Councillor. You can also call your City Councillor and use this as a script to leave a message. Find your City Councillor's email and phone number using this link.
Using this tool will simply email the Budget Chair (Councillor Shelley Carroll) and Mayor Olivia Chow. You will need to copy the text into a separate email to your City Councillor.
Dear Councillor [Name],
Toronto’s budget is about our city’s priorities.
For too long, shelters, affordable housing, mental health, public transit, and social services have been starved of the funding they need.
I am writing to call on you to vote for a budget that reflects the needs of Torontonians.
The city’s upcoming budget is a chance to invest in what matters most.
I know that the city is working to fix a deficit, and choices need to be made. I am asking you to choose to invest in the most important services for real community safety.
Those are:
I know that well-funded interests are also pushing you for funding increases. But I am hopeful that you can listen to Torontonians over special interests. Fund our communities, and deliver a budget that everyone in our city can be proud of.
Sincerely,
Name
Sincerely,
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Join MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, small business owners, and advocates in calling on the Federal government to fix the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) program and extend the deadline for the forgivable portion. The deadline is currently January 18th, just days away.
During the height of the pandemic, CEBA was a lifeline for small businesses. CEBA allowed small businesses to stay solvent, pay their rent, and keep their staff employed. Now small businesses are being asked to repay those loans despite many of their businesses not rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. This is unfair and will result in the closure of many beloved small businesses.
Sign the petition to support small businesses!
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
Whereas anti-2SLGBTQI+ hate crimes and harassment are increasing across Ontario.
Whereas drag artists have been specifically targeted for intimidation by anti-2SLGBTQI+ extremists.
Whereas drag performance is a liberating and empowering art form that allows diverse communities to see themselves represented and celebrated.
Whereas drag artists, small businesses, and 2SLGTBQI+ communities deserve to feel safe everywhere in Ontario.
Therefore, we the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to pass the Protecting 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Act so that 2SLGTBQI+ Safety Zones can deter bigoted harassment and an advisory committee can be struck to protect 2SLGTBQI+ Communities from hate crimes.
Read the Private Member's Bill here.
To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
Whereas the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through infectious aerosols that remain suspended in the air after being transmitted by an infected person.
Whereas Ontario has not implemented adequate safety measures to prevent airborne pandemics despite the experiences of the SARS and COVID-19 pandemics.
Whereas the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers has already provided core recommendations for safer indoor air to the Ontario government.
Whereas people who are immunocompromised, Indigenous, Black, racialized, disabled, low-income, homeless, living or working in long-term care, frontline workers, migrant workers, and people facing other kinds of marginalization are at the most risk of death and long-term health consequences that result from infection during airborne pandemics.
Whereas Ontario already has the technology to make indoor air safer using a combination of ventilation, filtration, upper room UV, and air quality testing.
Whereas the cost of implementing those technologies would be a fraction of the costs that small businesses, everyday Ontarians, and the Ontario government were forced to pay during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whereas making indoor air safer would substantially reduce the likelihood of Ontario’s education system or small businesses being compelled to lockdown during future pandemics.
Whereas future airborne pandemics are inevitable.
Therefore, we the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to pass the Advisory Committee to Protect Ontario’s People and Economy from Airborne Pandemics Act.
Two people experiencing homelessness have died from the elements since the December holidays. It is unconscionable our City would delay opening warm and safe spaces for people to escape the bitter cold.
Send a letter to Mayor John Tory and your City Councillor urging Toronto's emergency warming centres are opened now. Please also support Stone Soup Network's campaign here:
Dear Mayor Tory,
I am joining the chorus of community advocates, faith leaders, and frontline workers and calling on you to take immediate action and open community warming centres ahead of the winter storm.
Two people experiencing homelessness have died from the elements since the December holidays. It is unconscionable you would delay opening warm and safe spaces for people to escape the bitter cold.
I also urge you to meet with organizers of the Stone Soup network to hear their demands to increase the number of warming centres across the GTA, make access to warming centres available 24 hours a day throughout the winter months, end encampment evictions and the destruction of survival gear, keep the current shelter spaces open, including the five shelter hotels slated for closing in 2023 and adding an additional 2,700 non-congregate spaces within the regular shelter system.
I believe we are a caring and compassionate city. I urge you to save this winter and open warming centres now.
Sincerely,
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{postal_code}
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to immediately cancel Bill 39 and tell the Ford government to stop all
of its attacks on our democratic freedoms.
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to immediately amend Bill 23, stop all plans to further remove protected land from the Greenbelt and protect existing farmland in the province by passing the NDP’s Protecting Agricultural Land Act.
Unlike the Conservatives, the NDP believes you should get health care based on need — not the size of your wallet.
Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones say they’re planning to further privatize health care. This is a generational fight for health care.
Use our easy online tool here to email Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Steve Clark directly, telling them that you support protecting affordable housing across Ontario:
Dear Premier Ford and Minister Clark,
Under the More Homes Built Faster Act Bill 23, renters living in purpose-built rentals are at serious risk of eviction.
Section 111 of the City of Toronto Act has saved more than 2,000 units of affordable housing in just the last term of Council. By banning and restricting city rules that require developers to replace rental units and give tenants the right to return to their rent-controlled apartment after construction of the new bigger condo is complete, thousands of tenants living in rent-controlled purpose-built rentals are at risk of eviction.
We need to build more homes, but not at the expense of the affordable homes we already have. Any affordable housing plan must include protections for renters and affordable rental homes.
As a voter, it is important that my Member of Provincial Parliament stands up for tenants at risk of losing their homes.
Sincerely,
[your name will go here]
Use our easy online tool here to email Ford and Lecce directly telling them that you stand with education workers across Ontario:
Dear Premier Doug Ford and Hon. Minister Stephen Lecce,
Right now, Ford’s government is violating education workers’ rights through the introduction of the Keeping Students in Class Act.
I am writing to you as an Ontario voter; this Bill, if passed, will have lasting implications for government and labour relations, continuing to hold education workers' wages below inflation. Education workers need support to continue doing the work they love.
Already, 55,000 CUPE-OSBCU members, including custodians, clerical staff, librarians, and early childhood educators, on average earn less than $39,000 a year, making them some of the lowest-paid workers in the province. Their wage increase is well below the rate of inflation, and the Bill provides no new funding for additional staffing and support.
I am calling on you to support CUPE-OSBCU members’ ability to strike, rip up the anti-worker Bill 28 and return to the bargaining table with education workers in good faith.
Sincerely,
Dear Premier Doug Ford, Hon. Minister Jill Dunlop, and Hon. Minister Stephen Lecce,
I am writing to you as an Ontario voter.
Recent events in Ontario have led to a heightened awareness of the urgency to address sexual violence and consent. These events include allegations against members of a hockey team for committing group sexual assault, high-profile sexual assault cases in the media and student walkouts in response to sexual assaults on post-secondary campuses.
A national survey by the Canadian Women’s Foundation found only 28 percent of Canadians fully understand the meaning of consent. Understanding consent requires awareness, action and accountability.
Consent Awareness Week invites Ontarians to have thoughtful, affirming, intersectional and age-appropriate conversations about consent. The week is an opportunity to reflect, champion and celebrate consent as a cornerstone for all types of relationships, not just intimate ones. The week is also an opportunity to explore valuable life skills related to consent, including how to respond to rejection, articulate boundaries, respect bodily autonomy and actively listen to others.
By supporting the Consent Awareness Week Act, Ontario could be the first province to proclaim that Consent Awareness Week will be held during the third week of September in each year. The week was chosen to recognize and raise awareness of, the increase in sexual violence across post-secondary campuses during the first six weeks of a new academic year. The week will function as an annual reminder that Ontarians have the right to be respected and safe where they live, work, study and play.
Ontario has the opportunity to be a leader in making the places where we live, work, and learn safer for everybody. I hope that you will work with MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam to ensure that Consent Awareness Week passes as soon as possible with unanimous consent.
Sincerely,
We want you to get mental health care with your OHIP card, not your credit card.
After two long years of uncertainty and lockdowns, it’s time we start building an Ontario that is better for everyone.
That’s why we want to deliver Universal Mental Health Care. No one should have to chose between paying for basic necessities and leading a healthy life.
Add your name to support Universal Mental Health Care for all.
Hate crimes and anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise, and words are not enough — no one should be scared to go for a walk while wearing a hijab, and no one should fear worshipping at a masjid. We must take action to stop Islamophobia, white supremacy, anti-Islam terrorism and hate crimes.
The Ontario NDP and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) have partnered to create new legislation to combat Islamophobia. Add your name to call for action to combat white supremacy and to stop Islamophobic hate crimes:
THEREFORE WE, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to support MPP Peter Tabuns Stopping Handguns at the Source Act.
An NDP government will make $10/day child care a reality for families across Ontario.
The Rent Stabilization Act, tabled by NDP MPP Bhutila Karpoche, would stop rents from skyrocketing and end the current incentive for landlords to unfairly evict tenants just so they can jack up the rent.
Doug Ford ended rent control on all new units in 2018, leading to huge rent increases. The Liberals and Conservatives chose vacancy decontrol for Ontario – which means when one tenant leaves or is evicted, the landlord can raise the rent as much as they want for the next tenant. New Democrats will get rid of it.
Over the past year, the graves of more than 1,300 Indigenous children have been discovered at former residential school sites. We mourned together, grieved together, and faced the truth together: that all Indigenous Peoples living in Canada are survivors of Canada’s tools of genocide.
Declaring September 30 the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is one of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Making September 30th a provincial statutory day off is a way to keep this work on the front burner, to convey the gravity of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and to make sure the precious children that were taken from their parents, their families, their communities are never, ever forgotten.
Add your name to call on Ford to honour treaties and take concrete action to fulfill their obligations, before another generation is left fighting these same battles.
The province must not engage in jurisdictional games with the federal government. There are lives at risk. Ontario must uphold its duties as a signatory to Treaty 9. First Nations communities, such as Neskantaga, must have their basic human rights secured – this includes having access to clean water.
Support our plan for funding and investment in older Ontarians.
Add your name today.
Support the Green New Democratic Deal: Add your name now.
THEREFORE, we the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to provide workers with 10 permanent sick days without the requirement for doctors’ notes, and an additional 14 paid sick days during an infectious disease emergency, so they can follow public health advice and keep our workplaces and our communities safe.
