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Cheri DiNovo, (born ) 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. ==Background== 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 changed 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 became 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.〔"...I was the only woman in Canada to sign on to We Demand in 1971."; "I don’t need a note to say I’m a bisexual woman."(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/house-proceedings/transcripts/files_pdf/24-SEP-2015_L099.pdf )〕 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. 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.〔 DiNovo began hosting a weekly radio show, ''The Radical Reverend'', on Toronto's CIUT-FM in 2000 which ran until 2006.〔 She performed the first legal same-sex marriage registered in Canada in 2001. Her book ''Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In'' won the Lambda Literary Award in the Spirituality category for 2006. She has two children, Francesca and Damien Zielinski. As of 2013, she continues to appear on CIUT as host of ''3 Women'', a weekly show in which she moderates a political discussion with two guests, other women in politics, or leaders of social initiatives.〔(''3 Women'' ). CIUT-FM.〕 DiNovo is known as the “Queen of tri-party bills” for tabling the most bills in the Legislature that have all three parties’ support. She has also passed more Private Member’s Bills than any other opposition MPP on record. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheri DiNovo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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