1. Marilyn Churley was born on May 7,1948 and is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
23 Facts About Marilyn Churley
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Marilyn Churley served as a cabinet minister in the Bob Rae government.
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Marilyn Churley resigned from the legislature to run for the federal New Democratic Party.
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Marilyn Churley moved to the Downtown Toronto neighbourhood of Riverdale in 1978.
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Marilyn Churley has served as a director of the Co-op Housing Federation of Toronto, and was a co-founder of the Bain Avenue Day Care Centre.
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Marilyn Churley later reconnected with him in 1997, as described in her 2015 book "Shameless".
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Marilyn Churley has a daughter, Astra Crosby, born in 1974.
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Marilyn Churley was elected to the Toronto City Council in 1988.
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Marilyn Churley defeated longtime alderman Fred Beavis in the downtown riding of Riverdale.
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Marilyn Churley was involved in a number of Toronto council initiatives, including the energy efficiency office, the "Clean Up the Don" movement and police patrols on bicycle.
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Marilyn Churley was elected as a New Democrat in the riding of Riverdale in the provincial election of 1990.
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On 18 March 1991, Marilyn Churley was named Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations after the previous minister, Peter Kormos was fired by Bob Rae for a series of political blunders.
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Marilyn Churley remained in this position throughout the Rae government's mandate.
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In cabinet, Marilyn Churley opposed attempts to reduce social assistance to single mothers, and only accepted the introduction of casino gambling with reluctance.
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Rae's government lost the provincial election of 1995, and Marilyn Churley was one of seventeen NDP members to retain a seat in the legislature.
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Marilyn Churley served as Deputy Speaker of the legislature from October 1997 to October 1998.
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Marilyn Churley became deputy leader of the NDP in 2001, following the retirement of Frances Lankin from the legislature.
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Marilyn Churley was easily re-elected for a fourth term in 2003.
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Marilyn Churley was a prominent supporter of Jack Layton in his bid to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2002.
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Two months later, Marilyn Churley was renominated as the NDP candidate in that riding.
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Marilyn Churley was again defeated by Maria Minna in the 2008 election.
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Marilyn Churley was a regular guest on The Michael Coren Show, a current events television program on CTS.
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Marilyn Churley was appointed a justice of the peace on October 14,2009.