NDP Leader Howard Hampton is challenging Premier Dalton McGuinty to accept an invitation to tour Toronto’s crumbling Don Jail.

Last Friday, Hampton and NDP Corrections Critic Peter Kormos accepted the invitation of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) to see first-hand the overcrowded jail’s squalid conditions.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton is calling on the McGuinty government to enforce an immediate ban on the use of Tasers on minors, except in lethal situations.

In addition, Hampton is calling for a complete moratorium on the use of Tasers until a provincial review of the devices has been conducted and a province-wide protocol for their use is put into effect.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton says the McGuinty government has ignored key recommendations that would help stem school violence in Ontario.

“Guns have no place in our school and no place in our children's hands. We have to get the guns off the streets and stop the violence. When parents send their children to school they have the right to expect that their children are safe. The safety of our children, however, requires far more than a police presence in a few schools,” said the NDP Leader.

August 8, 2008

The Hon. Chris Bentley

Ministry of the Attorney General

McMurtry-Scott Building

720 Bay Street, 11th Floor

Toronto ON M5G 2K1

Dear Mr. Bentley:

Re: Katelynn Sampson and Justice Debra Paulseth

Toronto-Danforth NDP MPP Peter Tabuns applauds the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on the excellent report they have provided with recommendations to protect Asian anglers from further discrimination and racist attacks.

Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath says it is “reprehensible” that the McGuinty government has not ordered a stand-alone coroner's inquest into the March 2006 murder of eight-year-old Jared Osidacz, who was killed by his father in Brantford on a court-authorized, unsupervised visit.