David R Reville was born on April 19,1943 and is a former politician in Ontario, Canada, and an activist and educator active in Mad Pride, mad studies, and disability studies.
18 Facts About David Reville
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David Reville was institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital and became a crusader for mental health reform upon his release.
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David Reville was making the point that he had begun to learn something about powerlessness in hospital, and joined the NDP to fight for marginalized people.
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David Reville once joked that he was the only MPP with a certificate to prove that he was sane.
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David Reville served on Toronto's city council from 1980 to 1985, and emerged as a popular alderman in the downtown area.
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David Reville got Council to award intervenor funding for a community group to be involved in the environmental assessment of a proposed refuse-fired steam plant.
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David Reville was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1985 provincial election, winning an easy victory in Riverdale.
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David Reville was re-elected in the 1987 election, defeating future Liberal Member of Parliament and then City Councillor Jim Karygiannis by about 1,500 votes.
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David Reville was an opposition MPP throughout his time in the legislature.
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David Reville was proud to be the author of a private member's bill that brought roomers and boarders under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act for the first time.
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David Reville did not seek re-election in 1990, arguing that he wanted to devote his time to more useful pursuits.
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In 1994, David Reville was appointed chair of the Ontario Advocacy Commission but it was disbanded by the Mike Harris government less than two years later.
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In 2004, David Reville began teaching for the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University ; one of his courses was called A History of Madness and the other Mad Peoples' History which received the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education Award of Excellence in 2011.
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David Reville was a key figure in the launch of mad studies as an academic discipline in Canada and in the UK He retired in 2014.
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David Reville was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Queen's University in 2015.
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David Reville was a member, man and boy, of the choir at Grace Anglican Church in Brantford for 10 years.
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David Reville sang at the Mariposa Folk Festival with the Spadina Road Tabernacle Band in 1980 and at Carnegie Hall with new choir, Toronto's first rock choir in 2015.
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David Reville was a member of the Eastminster United Church choir in Toronto.