[1] Di Ciano worked as a manager for Gross Securities, a Toronto real estate investment firm,[1] and was active in the community as a cofounder of the Jean Augustine Centre for Young Women's Empowerment and as a director of the Toronto Ribfest.
[1] Di Ciano first ran for Ward 5 in the 2010 election, losing narrowly to incumbent councillor Peter Milczyn.
[1] Again, running in Ward 5 for the 2014 Toronto municipal election, Di Ciano won the popular vote, beating out runner-up Kinga Surma who later ran and won as an MPP in the 2018 Ontario general election.
Assistant Crown attorney Michael Wilson told the media in possession of evidence to suggest that, during the 2014 Toronto municipal election, the campaign of Justin Di Ciano received the benefit of polling data from a company called Campaign Research that was not claimed on his financial statement-auditor's report" but “the Crown is not in a position to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Justin Di Ciano personally requested or received this data or that he deliberately failed to report the receipt of that data when filing”.
DiCiano announced he would not seek re-election in the larger new Ward during the 2018 Toronto municipal election.