News - Manitoba NDP

July 09, 2021

NDP Reveal PC Board Implementing Bill 64 Composed of Hand-Picked Political Appointees

NDP Education Critic Nello Altomare stood with a Winnipeg teacher to reveal that the PC board responsible for overseeing the implementation of Bill 64 is entirely hand-picked political appointees. Through a Freedom of Information Request, the Manitoba NDP has discovered that there isn’t a single educator in the PCs Education Transformation...

July 07, 2021

PCs Cut Funding to Classrooms by 5 million for Next School Year

After years of cuts to Education funding, the PC government is forcing through a 5 million dollar cut to classrooms for the 2020/21 school year. The province’s education spending reports for the last three years show the PCs cuts to classrooms continued even as enrollment increased. While schools continue to...

June 30, 2021

NDP Call on PC Government to Search All Former Residential School Grounds

In the Legislature, Nahanni Fontaine, NDP Critic for Justice and Spokesperson for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People, called on the provincial government to search all former residential school grounds to investigate the presence of mass graves. Fontaine also called on the provincial government to work...

June 29, 2021

Northern Families Losing More Birthing Services Under PCs

Pregnant mothers are now being transferred from The Pas hospital to Thompson, Brandon and Winnipeg because of the PCs refusal to properly staff the Obstetrics care unit the Manitoba NDP has learned. “The PCs are effectively ending obstetrics services in The Pas. It is alarming that soon-to-be mothers and parents...

June 17, 2021

Disabilities Minister Says Her PC Government “Does Not Support” A Triage Protocol in ICUs

The Manitoba NDP is sharing comments made recently by the PC Families Minister, responsible for disability services, about her government’s plans to not implement a triage protocol in ICUs. Minister Rochelle Squires, in a budget committee meeting with NDP Disabilities Critic Danielle Adams, told Adams that her government would not...

June 15, 2021

Nurses Blow the Whistle on PC’s ‘Disastrous’ and ‘Unethical’ Private Contact Tracing Contract

After months of Manitobans searching for answers as to why the pandemic’s third wave hit the province so hard, public health nurses are blowing the whistle on a for-profit contract tracing service that has failed to keep up with cases and is partly responsible for a difficult and extended third...