April 11, 2022
MPP Bhutila Karpoche tables public health equity and pandemic preparedness bill
QUEEN’S PARK — Bhutila Karpoche, MPP for Parkdale-High Park, will be tabling her private member’s bill the Pandemic Preparedness Act 2022 to ensure Ontario is better prepared for future public heal... More
March 25, 2022
Ontario must sign child care deal before Thursday’s deadline
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Bhutila Karpoche said it’s wrong that the Ford government has left signing a $10 per day child care deal to the eleventh hour, leaving Ontario parents to keep shelling out hundre... More
February 25, 2022
MPPs force vote on $1.3B to tackle surgery backlog
MPPs will force a vote in the legislature on Monday on funding and a strategy to tackle the overwhelming backlog of surgeries. More
January 24, 2022
Bhutila Karpoche's statement on Ontario being very last holdout on child care deal
QUEEN'S PARK — MPP Bhutila Karpoche released the following statement in response to the federal government announcing it has signed a deal with Nunavut on $10-a-day child care: More
January 24, 2022
NDP puts five urgent changes on the table for Housing Summit
QUEEN'S PARK — With a Housing Summit planned for Wednesday, Ontario NDP Housing critic Jessica Bell (University—Rosedale) is calling for five specific proposals to be on the table — things she said... More
January 10, 2022
The NDP is calling or children under five to have access to free PCR tests
TORONTO — There’s only one group in Ontario that cannot be vaccinated, and they gather in groups — that’s why Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Child Care critic Bhutila Karpoche ar... More
December 31, 2021
NDP calls on Ford to reverse testing and tracing cuts throwing child care and education into risky crisis
TORONTO — While people reel from the news that Doug Ford’s government will withhold COVID testing from almost everyone, Doug Ford has also decided to stop reporting child care and school cases of t... More
December 17, 2021
NDP calls for plan to keep schools open
QUEEN'S PARK — Doug Ford must urgently implement measures to prevent further shutdowns of Ontario schools amid rising COVID cases and the alarming transmissibility of Omicron. More
December 10, 2021
Ford's holdout on $10-a-day child care leaves parents crushed by rising fees: NDP
QUEEN'S PARK — NDP Child Care critic Bhutila Karpoche released this statement following news that New Brunswick has signed a $10-a-day child care deal with Ottawa, leaving Ontario as the only provi... More
December 9, 2021