NDP MPPs Cheri DiNovo and Andrea Horwath held a press conference today with former MPP Marilyn Churley to highlight a resolution encouraging the legislature to elect a woman as Speaker following the provincial election.

NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo has renewed NDP calls for the McGuinty government to keep its promises to build adequate affordable housing.

DiNovo was responding to a new report released by two Ontario housing groups that says there are not enough apartments to rent in Ontario and those that are available are unaffordable for the average worker.

NDP Culture and Housing Critic Cheri DiNovo, and NDP Municipal Affairs Critic Michael Prue held a press conference today demanding that the McGuinty Liberals reform the decision-making powers of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) and annul its recent ruling regarding the Queen West Triangle.

NDP Housing Critic Cheri DiNovo is calling on the McGuinty government to keep its promises to build affordable housing before the next election. A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows the McGuinty government is spending just 14 cents per person per day on affordable housing – less than half of what the Harris Conservatives budgeted in 2000.

Parkdale-High Park NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo held a press conference today to announce a campaign to motivate support for the Living Wage Act, a private member’s bill she introduced last fall that would increase Ontario’s minimum wage to $10 an hour.