Parliamentary Assistant's Biography

• Content last reviewed: November 2011

Laura Albanese
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Labour

Laura Albanese was re-elected in the riding of York South-Weston in 2011. She was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in the Ontario General Election of October 2007.

Albanese has served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Culture, Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, a member of the Cabinet Committee on Emergency Management and the Standing Committees on Government Agencies, Public Accounts and Legislative Assembly.

Prior to her election as an MPP, Albanese enjoyed a career spanning over two decades in broadcast journalism. She was best known as co-anchor of OMNI News: Italian Edition, a one-hour daily Italian-language newscast. She was also Associate Producer of Italian language programming on OMNI TV.

Albanese was born in Taranto, Italy and permanently moved to Canada, in 1981. She has lived in the York South-Weston community ever since. She is married with two adult children.