MPP Wayne Gates will be officially nominated as the Ontario NDP candidate for the Niagara Falls riding for the upcoming 2025 election. 

The nomination will take place Thursday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at Firemen’s Park in Niagara Falls in the Stamford Centre Volunteer Firemen’s Association Hall. 

Burt Sisler, a 109-year-old resident of Fort Erie and veteran of the Second World War, is nominating Gates.

Heather Kelley, a Fort Erie health care activist and Owen Bjorgan, an environmental activist from Niagara-on-the-Lake, will also be speaking in support of the nomination.