Kristyn Wong-Tam

“Survivors deserve to have their voices heard. Ontario's Official Opposition believes that we must now produce our own dissenting report to ensure that survivors' voices and calls for change are heard."

"Because report writing takes place in-camera, MPPs are not allowed to disclose or discuss what is transpiring during the report-writing process.

Choosing to ensure that the process has integrity, accountability, and respect for survivors now requires that we withdraw from the government's report-writing process.

"Today, after serious reflection, we are continuing to make decisions guided by our respect and gratitude for survivors, advocates, experts and service providers.

Ontario New Democrats have engaged with the government process, determined to honour their voices and fight for changes that will meaningfully strengthen Ontario’s response to the IPV epidemic.

"Last year, survivors, frontline advocates, community experts, and service providers gave important, courageous, and oftentimes painful testimony to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy's subcommittee on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).

Ontario NDP MPPs Statement on the IPV Committee Report
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre), @alexagilmour.bsky.social (Parkdale—High Park), and @lgretzky.bsky.social (Windsor West) have issued the following statement:

Ford will not unlock housing by undermining tenants' security of tenure. This Bill is a new low that signals existential threats to every renter in Ontario. We need to go all out to stop it www.kristynwongtam.ca/stop-bill-60 #ONpoli #TorCen #Bill60

Ford has done nothing to fix Ontario’s broken ticket resale market:
⚾ World Series Tickets in 1993: $32 per ticket
⚾ World Series Tickets today: $2000 – $3000 per ticket in the upper levels.
Enough is enough. Sign the petition demanding that Ford act NOW www.kristynwongtam.ca/fans-first #BlueJays

Fans are price-gouged because Ford broke the ticket resale market in 2019. He can act to fix it or keep sitting on his hands. Email Ford to demand action NOW: kristynwongtam.ca/fans-first #OnPoli

Happy October 3rd to all who celebrate!

Tenth Anniversary of the Renfrew Inquest

Today marks 10 years since the triple femicide of Nathalie Warmerdam, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Carol Culleton in Renfrew County in 2015. The memories of Nathalie, Anastasia, and Carol demand action: not just acknowledgment. www.kristynwongtam.ca/tenth-years-...

Read my statement here: can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...

AIDS changed the world, but ACT changed Toronto. The AIDS Committee of Toronto’s closure is a wake-up call for governments to invest in stabilizing public health and HIV/AIDS prevention. I am so grateful to everyone at ACT who gave so much and made our communities healthier over the last 42 years.

Save Our Colleges!

There's a picket line in Toronto Centre you can join at George Brown College! Ford has underfunded post-secondary education & only fair funding can give us the education system we deserve. Let Ford know that you stand with striking workers using my tool at www.kristynwongtam.ca/save-our-colleges

If Ford doesn't step up to save our colleges, this recessionary trade war is going to hurt Ontarians even more than it already is. I joined the picket line in solidarity with @opseusefpo.bsky.social college sector workers who are on strike for the future of public post-secondary education!

I am grateful to Executive Director Jennifer Stone and her immensely talented and hardworking team for all they do. Their work embodies just how important community legal clinics are to Ontarians, and Doug Ford's cuts to legal aid have made their jobs that much harder. #FundLegalAid #onpoli

I met with Neighbourhood Legal Services to discuss the challenges and trends they're seeing in Toronto Centre. Neighbourhood Legal Services is our community's legal clinic, supporting some of the most vulnerable residents who need access to justice, including many facing eviction.

Solidarity is not a slogan — it’s about the commitment to each other that workers deserve. Thank you to @‪labourcouncil.bsky.social‬ for bringing us together for today's Labour Day Parade! Today, and every day, I honour the labour movement and all those continuing the fight for justice.

Happy Labour Day! Today we celebrate all of Ontario’s workers and progress that unions have won. During a trade war, we need the government to work with unions to protect workers and our economy.

People need many different kinds of supports to get housed, stay alive, and navigate towards healing. No one should go through what Hannah's family has. The government needs to put the politics aside and listen to the evidence today.

Today is Overdose Awareness Day. Hannah Robinson's powerful answer at this week's press conference with @robinlennoxmd.bsky.social & @alexagilmour.bsky.social calling for the government to make an emergency task force to save lives is still echoing in our heads. The overdose death crisis is complex.

Thank you Kelsey Wilson for sharing this fun accessible guide to Moss Park for everyone in Toronto!

This week's newsletter discusses Ford's threats to take over school boards indefinitely, Therme's financial instability, and upcoming events in our community! Check it out at www.kristynwongtam.ca/august_22_20...

Remote work works, and we’re going to continue our fight for it AMAPCEO is going to continue to fight for flexibility for members who want it and stop the Secretary from dragging Ontario's hardworking public service back to the Stone Age.

We are incensed that the Secretary of Cabinet is using policy to force through what couldn’t be wrested from us during free and fair collective bargaining. We will continue to fight for flexibility for members who want it.

Read more: amapceo.on.ca/news/remote-...

CUPE workers are fighting for all workers right now. Thank you to the @tcndp.ca team for making this tool for you to email your MP and tell them that the government needs to respect workers' right to strike! www.tcndp.ca/solidarity-w... #AirCanada

The concert you organized did such a powerful job at capturing both the human tragedy everyone endured as well as hope for humanity, peace, justice, and reconciliation.

Thank you Alpha Education, the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada (CPAC), and Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto (CCCGT) for your commemoration marking the 80th year since the Second World War ended.

We need more investments in poverty reduction, gang prevention, and stopping illegal guns. The family's spokesperson Marcell Wilson put it best: “This young boy should have had his whole life ahead of him. We owe it to him and we owe it to every child to do better.”

Family identifies 8-year-old boy killed in bed by stray bullet in North York shooting: ‘Had his whole life ahead of him’ The child, identified as JahVai Roy by his mother, was killed as he slept in bed at a North York apartment. No suspect descriptions have been released.

Heart breaking news. My thoughts are with the family and community grieving after another young person is taken too soon because of gun violence. Our communities are tired of waiting for action from our governments to end gun violence.

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