David Reville

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1985 Ontario general election: Riverdale
David Reville
Ontario MPP
In office
1985–1990
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic David Reville 9,86952.2
Progressive Conservative Bret Snider4,59024.3
Liberal Doug DeMille3,94920.9
Communist Maggie Bizzell3221.7
Green Michael Tegtmeyer1921.0
Total18,922
Canadian Press. [9]
1987 Ontario general election : Riverdale
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Democratic David Reville 10,32144.9
Liberal Jim Karygiannis 8,55237.2
Progressive Conservative Bob Dodd3,28514.3
Green Debora Hojman3301.4
Libertarian Byron Garby2921.3
Communist Maggie Bizzell2100.9
Total22,990
Toronto Star. [10]

Later life

Reville did not seek re-election in 1990, arguing that he wanted to devote his time to more useful pursuits. [11] After the NDP won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election, he served as a senior advisor to Premier Bob Rae. [12]

In 1994, Reville was appointed chair of the Ontario Advocacy Commission but it was disbanded by the Mike Harris government less than two years later. [13] [14] In 2001, he received an award from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. He ran a consulting company called David Reville & Associates specializing in social research and community development. [15] As a consultant to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, he helped develop the augmented education program at George Brown College; the award-winning program helps people with mental health and addictions histories get their first jobs in the construction and culinary industries.

In 2004, Reville began teaching for the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University); one of his courses was called A History of Madness and the other Mad Peoples' History which received the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education Award of Excellence in 2011. [16] David was a key figure in the launch of mad studies as an academic discipline in Canada and in the U.K. He retired in 2014. That year, friends and colleagues honoured Reville by establishing the David Reville/Working for Change course bursary in Mad People's History; the winner is selected annually from the Working for Change community. Working for Change creates education and employment opportunities for people with mental health and addictions challenges. Reville was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Queen's University in 2015.

Singing has been a big part of his life. He was a member, man and boy, of the choir at Grace Anglican Church in Brantford for 10 years. He sang at the Mariposa Folk Festival with the Spadina Road Tabernacle Band in 1980 and at Carnegie Hall with newchoir, Toronto's first rock choir in 2015. He was a member of the Eastminster United Church choir in Toronto (2014-2019).

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