Cheri DiNovo
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The Reverend Cheri DiNovo MPP |
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Source: Ontario NDP
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Parkdale—High Park |
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Assumed office September 14, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Gerard Kennedy |
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| Born | 1951 (age 65–66) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | New Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Gil Gaspar |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
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York University University of Toronto |
| Profession | Minister |
| Religion | United Church of Canada |
| Website | www |
Cheri DiNovo, MPP (born c. 1951) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in a by-election on 14 September 2006. She represents the Toronto riding of Parkdale—High Park. She is a United Church of Canada minister who served at the Emmanuel-Howard Park congregation in Toronto, Ontario.
DiNovo grew up in a rooming house owned by her parents. After her father's death from emphysema and witnessing her stepfather's suicide, she dropped out of school at Grade 10 to live on the streets for four years. During her time on the streets, she helped smuggle LSD into Canada from California inside hollowed-out bibles. Her time spent at the Fred Victor Mission convinced her to earn her high school equivalency test and enrol at Centennial College, though she soon transferred from Centennial to York University. It was during her time at York that she became involved with the student protest movement of the 1960s and joined the Young Socialists of Canada. An openly bisexual woman, DiNovo was one of the few women to sign Canada’s first gay liberation manifesto "We Demand" in 1971.
DiNovo left university shy of her degree and began working for a corporate headhunting firm, then in the early 1980s ran her own firm - the Abbott Group, a recruitment firm that specialized in placing women in high-profile jobs - for five years. In 1988, after some church-shopping with her then-husband Don Zielinski she joined a United Church of Canada congregation in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Soon after she finished up her York University degree and enrolled at Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto. In 1992, Zielinski was killed in a motorcycle accident. She earned her masters of divinity in 1995 and served a rural charge in Brucefield, Ontario for two years before beginning her ministry at Emmanuel-Howard Park United. In 1999, she married college professor Gil Gaspar. In 2002 she earned a doctorate in ministry from the University of Toronto.
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