Every Candidate

About

Every Candidate is a wildly aspirational project to explore what the 485 individuals running for the position of councillor or school trustee in Toronto's upcoming municipal election tell us about the city they seek to represent. Who are they? What is their background? What does their campaign material have to say? What do public records reveal?

There are all kinds of questions that this project aspires to answer -- some quirky, some hopelessly esoteric -- but, at the same time, we hope that this project asks questions that also interest you, as a resident of Toronto. Whether you are a concerned citizen or a parent, Every Candidate hopes that we can help play a small part in your election-day research.

For more information, read our launch September 22nd, 2014 launch announcement.

Team

Tim Groves is a Toronto-based investigative researcher and reporter whose work has been published in the Guardian, the Toronto Star, and on CBC.

Phillip Smith is a Toronto-loving muckraker who has a passion for open data and local politics.

The Every Candidate logo was developed by the fine folks at Ethical UX.

The image used when you share Every Candidate on Facebook was taken by Johnathan Nightingale on Flickr.

(If you can lend a hand, we would like to hear from you.)

Contact

The easiest way to contact the project is to drop us an e-mail here. We'll get back to you ASAP.

Otherwise, you can send us a 140 character note on Twitter.

You can also subscribe for updates as they are published here.

Contributors

People have helped out by sending us tips, information, or flyers:

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  • Thanks to Carol for our first contribution of missing information for Balachandran, Niranjan
  • Thanks to Mary-Margaret McMahon for providing her phone number.
  • HUGE thanks to Sean Boulton for updating the list of Twitter handles for council candidates. That list is getting close to complete.
  • Thanks to Neil Mens for the update to Josh Matlow's information
  • Thanks to Don Stuart for pointing out that the candidate names on the ward page were not sorting alphabetically by last name. Fixed!
  • Thanks to Jacob at Team Farrow for providing an update to Jane Farrow's information.
  • Thanks to Ian Irving for an update to Matthew Bielaski's info
  • Thanks to Abigail Slater for providing an update to Kristian Chartier info
  • Thanks to Nathaniel Smith for providing an update to Paula Fletcher's info
  • Thanks to Tanya Hostler for providing an update on, well, Tanya Hostler.
  • Thanks to Mary Hynes for proviing an update on Mary Hynes.
  • Thanks to Kristian Chartier for providing an update on Kristian Chartier.
  • Thanks to Andrew Schwab for udpates to Mike Layton & Joe Cressy's information.
  • Thanks to Somu Mondal for contributing a write-up for Ward 42
  • Thanks to Melissa Wong for an update to Kristyn Wong-Tam's information.
  • Thanks to Mary Cruden for pointing us to her Toronto Star Op-Ed on school trustees.
  • Thanks to George Emerson for an update to Charmain Emerson's information.
  • Thanks to Anthony Schein for updates to the Alejandra Bravo profile.
  • Thanks to Don Stuart for an update to the Don Stuart page.
  • Thanks to William Dale for an update to the Gaye Dale page.
  • Thanks to Genevieve Tran for some great web site improvement ideas.
  • Thanks to candidate Carmen Kedzior for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Thomas Gallezot for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Peggy Moulder for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Liz West for an update
  • Thanks again to Mary Cruden for helping to track down school trustee candidate e-mail addresses
  • Thanks to candidate Alex Perez for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Doug Cronkite for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Ashley Sondhi for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Khaliq Mahmood for an update
  • Thanks to Shawna Teper for an update to Shelley Carroll's profile
  • Thanks to Derek Power for an update to Derek Power
  • Thanks to candidate Princess Boucher for an update
  • Thanks to candidate David Blackmore for an update
  • Thanks to Monica Henao for an update to Alonzo Bartley profile
  • Thanks to Ken Miura for an update to Terri Chu's profile
  • Thanks to candidate Maria Remerata-Garcia for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Jordan Stone for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Nikola Samac for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Jennifer McKelvie for an update
  • Thanks to Kayla for an update to Joe Cressy's info
  • Thanks to candidate Ted Bustamante for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Albina Burello for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Raymond Cho for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Everett Sheppard for an update
  • Thanks to Michael Black for an update to Albert Koehl's profile
  • Thanks to candidate Guy Bowie for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Dave Andre for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Stephen Holyday for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Wasim Vania for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Saeed Selvam for an update
  • Thanks to Diego Rodriguez for an update to Charles Macdonald's profile
  • Thanks to candidate Larry Perlman for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Eduardo Harari for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Janet Davis for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Paul Bell for an update
  • Thanks to candidate David Mousavi for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Christin Carmichael Greb for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Taras Kulish for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Mike Andreae for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Tiffany Ford for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Tony Vella for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Gordon Foster for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Richard Klagsbrun for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Noel Kent for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Kristian Chartier for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Anna Sajnovic for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Sheila Cary-Meagher for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Shelley Laskin for an update0
  • Thanks to candidate Luke LaRocque for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Don Hedrick for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Michael Opoku for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Maria Saras-Voutsinas for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Aaron Grinhaus for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Sabrina Zuniga for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Rhonda Sussman for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Mark Henick for an update
  • Thanks to Tania Haas & Simon Loffler for sending in several flyers
  • Thanks to candidate Stephen Kazman for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Dina Sofia Karzman for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Roxanne Wright for an udpate
  • Thanks to candidate Kasim Dogan for an update
  • Thanks to Markian Silecky for an update to John Moskalyk's info
  • Thanks to Lizz Radman for an update to George Bauk's info
  • Thanks to candidate Ances Hercules for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Franco Ng for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Don Hedrick for an update
  • Thanks to candidate Ken Jeffers for an update