Morley Kells was born on January 26,1936 and is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
25 Facts About Morley Kells
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Morley Kells was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on two separate occasions from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 2003, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.
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Morley Kells was an unsuccessful candidate for Toronto City Council in the 2010 municipal election.
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Morley Kells was raised in the village of Mimico in the southern part of Etobicoke in west Toronto, Ontario.
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Morley Kells went on to lead the fraternity as Grand President while an active member over many years with the fraternity.
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Morley Kells attended the 150th anniversary of the founding of Gamma Sigma, in Niagara Falls Ontario in October 2019 with a large group of alumni.
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Morley Kells was a lacrosse player from 1954 to 1961.
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Morley Kells worked as a coach in the 1960s and 1970s, and started the semi-professional Ontario Lacrosse Association in 1972.
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Morley Kells received the Lester B Pearson Award for contribution to sport in 1973, and was named to the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1976.
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Morley Kells worked as a journalist, writing for The Telegram newspaper and serving as communications accounting executive for MacLaren Advertising.
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Morley Kells was elected as an alderman in Etobicoke in 1976, and won a controller's seat in 1978.
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Morley Kells ran for mayor of Etobicoke in 1980, but was defeated by incumbent Dennis Flynn.
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Morley Kells was an unsuccessful candidate for Toronto City Council for Ward 5, seeking to unseat incumbent councillor Peter Milczyn in the October 25,2010 municipal election.
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Morley Kells ran for the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1971, losing to New Democratic Party candidate Patrick Lawlor by 735 votes in the Etobicoke riding of Lakeshore.
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Morley Kells was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1981, outpolling Liberal candidate Jim Mills by over 10,000 votes in the Etobicoke riding of Humber.
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Morley Kells supported Frank Miller's successful campaign for the party leadership in January 1985.
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Morley Kells was not well respected by his staff, and made a rather serious public relations blunder in March 1985.
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Early in his ministerial tenure, Morley Kells had intended to announce a $100-million cash infusion for his ministry, with the money to be spent cleaning polluted dump sites and hiring new inspectors.
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Morley Kells lost to Liberal candidate Jim Henderson by almost 2,000 votes in the 1985 provincial election, in which the Tories were reduced to a minority.
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Morley Kells was reportedly annoyed at not being appointed to the cabinet of Mike Harris and played only a limited role in the parliament that followed.
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Morley Kells did not serve as a parliamentary assistant, and did not even serve on any committees after 1997.
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Morley Kells did serve as a member of the Red Tape Commission of MPPs.
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Morley Kells' riding was targeted by both the Liberal and NDP in the 1999 provincial election, but he managed to win re-election by a significant margin.
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The Tories had lost much of their Toronto-area support by the time of the 2003 election, and Morley Kells lost to Broten by just over 5,000 votes in a rematch from 1999.
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Morley Kells was a candidate for the nomination of the Conservative Party of Canada in Etobicoke-Lakeshore on May 5,2005, although he was defeated by the 2004 federal candidate John Capobianco.