MPP Cheri DiNovo today called on GO Transit to keep its promise to reduce the West Toronto diamond pile driving project 50 per cent by June 8th, 2009.

“GO’s representative misspoke when they promised a 50 percent reduction in pile driving noise—and when they said vibratory hammers were not a viable alternative,” said DiNovo.

The West Diamond community has scored a major victory in its fight against Go Transit’s piledriving noise.

“I’m pleased to announce that GO Transit has agreed to take concrete steps to reduce the noise. For the residents who have suffered for so long, I am delighted,” said Parkdale-High Park NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo.

NDP Employment Standards Critic Cheri DiNovo today unveiled a sweeping private members bill designed to bring the Ontario Employment Standards Act into the twenty-first century.

“There are many instances where Ontarians work as part-time, casual workers who never meet their actual employer. These triangular employment relationships have resulted in vast forms of discrimination, including unpaid wages, harassment and gross violations of employment rules,” said DiNovo, in outlining the need for the modernization of the province’s employment standards laws.

Today, MPP Cheri DiNovo introduced the first ‘Girl’s Government’ project, which has been started in Parkdale-High Park with students from Fern and Parkdale Public Schools. DiNovo began the project in September of 2008 and the girls have been meeting monthly.

NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo’s office has learned that GO Transit is preparing to test quieter French pile driving technology for the West Toronto Diamond project due to the activism of local residents, pressure from the press and relentless questioning of Liberal Transportation Minister Jim Bradley.

NDP Housing critic Cheri Dinovo called on the McGuinty Liberals to freeze Ontario rents for one year due to the economic crisis, by tabling a motion today at the Legislative Assembly.

“Renters from across Ontario have flooded our office with calls and emails. They’ve lost their jobs, had their hours cut back, and have seen their small businesses suffer,” said Dinovo. “They want to know, why, when they’ve not received a pay raise themselves, must their rents increase as though nothing was wrong?”