Wesley Urban Ministries has announced its Summer Camp Programs for children 6-12 years of age.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the McGuinty government must scrap the review of its controversial policy of benchmarking children with autism and start over with someone who is independent.

June 1 is Hunger Awareness Day in Hamilton. Hamilton Food Share is calling on the community for a “Hunger Intervention”, asking everyone to give up buying their lunch for one day and donate the money to help reduce hunger in our city.

While the McGuinty government begins to look at legislation to ensure that developers can’t sue project opponents to keep them quiet, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has already done the work.

The Hamilton Centre MPP says the government’s newly appointed panel can save time and money by adopting her private members bill against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) in the planning process.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath met with Hamilton seniors today to discuss the impact of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and urge them to let their voices be heard.

New legislation introduced today by NDP Leader Andrea Horwath would set a clear, uniform cap on the salaries of Ontario’s highest-paid public sector executives to ensure scarce public dollars could be redirected to vital front-line services where they’re needed most.

Ontario families should savour their last HST-free long-weekend, says Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.

“This coming May long-weekend is the last one that’s HST-free. Come July 1st, there certainly won’t be ‘no place like this’. In Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario, it’s going to cost eight per cent more to go for a weekend drive through the country or take the kids camping,” said Horwath.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath today demanded the McGuinty government expand its social assistance program review to better help the city of Hamilton.

Andrea Horwath, MPP for Hamilton Centre, asked the following during Question Period in the Ontario Legislature this morning about Hamilton-Niagara hospital cuts:

Dalton McGuinty’s Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will cost the average Ontario family with children more than $1,200 a year, according to new findings by Ontario’s NDP.

Dalton McGuinty’s Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will cost the average Ontario family nearly $800 a year, according to new findings by Ontario’s NDP.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath today called on the McGuinty government to allocate the funds needed to get Light Rapid Transit (LRT) in Hamilton up and running.

Andrea Horwath was in Hamilton today to participate in the ceremony honouring the memory of workers who have been killed, injured or made ill by their jobs.

Horwath issued the following official statement:

The Campaign for Adequate Welfare and Disability Benefits, joined by Ontario's NDP Leader-Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath, New Democrat MPP Paul Miller and the Ontario Association of Social Workers, demanded today in a rally at Queen’s Park that the McGuinty Liberals end the Ontario Child Benefit clawback for families on social assistance.

Ontario's NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, MPP for Hamilton Centre, continues to press Premier Dalton McGuinty into action, urging him to convince his Labatt executive friends to reverse the company’s decision to remove equipment from Hamilton Lakeport brewery.

“On Friday, Labatt closed its Lakeport plant in Hamilton, costing 143 families good jobs that they relied on to pay the bills,” Horwath said during today’s Question Period.

The McGuinty government needs to get off the fence and finally make clear whether it supports secure, affordable public pensions for the two-thirds of Ontarians who don’t have a pension plan at work, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said today.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is demanding Premier Dalton McGuinty put his clout and close ties to senior Labatt executives to use by asking the brewer to stop its plan to remove equipment and machinery from the Lakeport brewery in Hamilton.

Today Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to prove that his government’s anti-poverty strategy is working when a mountain of evidence shows it’s “failing miserably.”

The announced closure of Lakeport Brewery on the heels of devastating job losses at Siemens and Stelco shows Ontario is long overdue for a jobs plan that puts families first, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said today.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath today demanded the McGuinty government put the brakes on plans to cancel the Ontario Bus Replacement Program, a move that will hurt public transit in cities across the province, including Ottawa, London, Windsor and Hamilton.

MPP Andrea Horwath said the closure of Labatt’s brewery in Hamilton is another blow to a city suffering from the absence of leadership from the McGuinty government.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the McGuinty government may apply its unpopular Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) to IBI autism therapy costs for children, adding further financial strain on vulnerable families.

NDP Leader and Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath and Hamilton Mountain MP Chris Charlton met with workers at Siemens Fossil Power Generation where plans to close the facility by July 2011 were announced yesterday – throwing 550 people out of work.

A recent ruling of the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal slamming the McGuinty government for cutting services for children with severe disabilities could help families across the province fight future funding cuts, says NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.

The McGuinty government’s Throne Speech offers no relief to Ontarians worried about their jobs, their health care, and the growing cost of living, says NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.

“Ontario families worried about their jobs, their health care, and the growing cost of living got a Throne Speech that offers lots of talk, but little action,” said Horwath.

Hamilton Centre MPP Andrea Horwath wants action on a McGuinty government report showing that families in Hamilton-Niagara families wait longer for children’s mental health services than anywhere else in Ontario.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is slamming Premier Dalton McGuinty’s claims that front-line health service cuts haven’t negatively affected Hamilton patients.

MPP Andrea Horwath says Dalton McGuinty needs to shake the lead out at Metrolinx and finally deliver Hamilton a light rail line.

New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath will put people first in the coming Legislative session, proposing sensible solutions on jobs, health care, retirement and other challenges facing the people who make Ontario work.