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Churley was elected to the Toronto City Council in 1988, where she was instrumental in a number of Toronto council initiatives, including the energy efficiency office, the " Clean Up the Don " movement ( with fellow city councillors Jack Layton and Barbara Hall ) and police patrols on bicycle.
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The NDP's representation in the Legislature was again reduced to seven seats when Marilyn Churley resigned her seat to run in the 2006 federal election.
The provincial seat was previously held by Marilyn Churley, then deputy leader of the New Democratic Party of Ontario, until she resigned prior to an unsuccessful bid for the adjacent federal seat of Beaches-East York in the January 2006 federal election.
In the race she was endorsed by Layton, who by the time of the election was the leader of the federal NDP, and the local NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Marilyn Churley.
Churley was her party's candidate for the riding of Beaches — East York in 2006 and 2008, but was defeated both times.
Churley was appointed a justice of the peace on October 14, 2009.
Churley was raised in Happy Valley, Labrador, and moved to the Downtown Toronto neighbourhood of Riverdale in 1978.
Churley was easily elected as a New Democrat in the riding of Riverdale in the provincial election of 1990.
On 18 March 1991, 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.
Rae's government lost the provincial election of 1995, and Churley was one of seventeen NDP members to retain a seat in the legislature.
" Hunter claimed that the story was written as satire, and sued both Churley and Prue for slander.
Churley was easily re-elected for a fourth term in 2003.
Churley was a prominent supporter of Jack Layton in his bid to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 2002.
In May 2005, Churley announced that once a federal election was called she would resign her Toronto — Danforth seat at the provincial legislature and run for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.
However, Churley could not overcome accusations of being a parachute candidate, despite living only a few miles away from the Beaches — East York riding, and was defeated in the January 23, 2006 election by incumbent Liberal Maria Minna in a hard fought contest.
Two months later, Churley was renominated as the NDP candidate in that riding.
The winning candidate was Marilyn Churley of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
On February 16, 2006, Chin was the Liberal Party nominee for the provincial by-election in Toronto — Danforth, held to fill the vacancy created when NDP incumbent Marilyn Churley resigned to run in the 2006 federal election.
Churley and Toronto
On February 15, 2006, the Toronto — Danforth NDP riding association nominated Tabuns as the party's candidate in the provincial byelection, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of former NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Marilyn Churley.
Marilyn Churley is a justice of the peace and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Toronto — Danforth in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2005.
Among other community commitments, Churley has also been a director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto.
Toronto singer / songwriter Kurt Swinghammer wrote a song called " The Signature of Marilyn Churley ", inspired by Churley's signature on an elevator license dating from her term in the Rae cabinet.
The Toronto Sun quoted Ms. Churley as saying: " It says something about Bob Hunter's character he could write such nasty, disgusting stuff about young girls in Thailand.
On February 9, 2007, at a fundraiser in Toronto, Churley clarified that she would be seeking the nomination in Beaches — East York for a potential federal election in 2007.
Churley and 1988
Beavis lost his council seat to NDP candidate Marilyn Churley in the 1988 municipal election.
Churley and she
As of 2008 she has been re-elected five times easily defeating high profile candidates such as Peter Tabuns ( 2004 election, by 7, 738 votes ) and Marilyn Churley ( 2006 election, by 2, 778 votes ; 2008 election, by 4035 votes ).
Churley and with
In cabinet, Churley opposed attempts to reduce social assistance to single mothers, and only accepted the introduction of casino gambling with reluctance.
During the race, Churley denounced Hunter for having written a novel with first-person accounts of encounters with child prostitutes in Bangkok.
Churley and .
MPP Marilyn Churley threatened to legally change her surname to " Churley-NDP " so that the Speaker would be forced to say NDP when recognizing her in the House, as a non-official party loses the right to have its members addressed in the Legislature as members of the party.
After Churley resigned to run in the 2006 federal election, bringing the party to only seven members again, the government decided to allow the NDP to retain official status pending the results of the by-election to replace her, which the NDP won.
Churley resigned her provincial seat in order to run in the 2006 federal election as the NDP candidate for Beaches-East York.
Churley remained in this position throughout the Rae government's mandate.
Churley became deputy leader of the NDP in 2001, following the retirement of Frances Lankin from the legislature.
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Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.
Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.
He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.
Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.
State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.
John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.
The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.
One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.
With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.
Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.
The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.
Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.
Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.
Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.
He donned the toga virilis four years later, and was elected to the College of Pontiffs in 47 BC.
These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.
As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.
In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
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