Josh Matlow
| Josh Matlow | |
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| Toronto City Councillor | |
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Assumed office December 1, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Walker |
| Constituency | Ward 22, St. Paul's |
| Toronto Public School Trustee | |
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In office December 1, 2003 – November 30, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Shelley Laskin |
| Succeeded by | Shelley Laskin |
| Constituency | Ward 11, St. Paul's |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 27, 1975 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Spouse(s) | Melissa Christine Matlow |
| Profession | Toronto Councillor, journalist and broadcaster, environmental advocate |
Josh Matlow (born November 27, 1975) is a community activist and Toronto City Councillor for Ward 22, St. Paul's. He served as a school trustee representing the midtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's between 2003 and 2010 at the Toronto District School Board. On October 25, 2010, Matlow was elected to Toronto City Hall. He was re-elected in 2014 with the largest number of votes and highest plurality (86.2 percent) of any candidate running for Toronto City Council across the city.
Matlow was a co-director of Earthroots, an Ontario environmental non-governmental organization. He also worked for the Canadian Peace Alliance, organizing against the war in Iraq. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Melissa and daughter, Molly. His father, Ted Matlow, is a federally appointed judge and his mother, Elaine Mitchell, was a retired high school teacher. She died on July 6, 2015.
Matlow has written articles for several local newspapers as well as the Toronto Sun and Toronto Star. He hosted a call-in radio show on University of Toronto station CIUT, was a weekly contributor and co-host on Toronto talk-radio station AM 640 and CFRB. He hosted a talk radio show called The City with Josh Matlow on Toronto radio station Newstalk 1010 and was a weekly columnist for the Toronto Star.
In 2002 and at the age of 26, Matlow was asked by the Ontario Liberal Party to run as their candidate in Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey in a by-election against Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves. He lost by 3,560 votes.
In 2003, Matlow was elected to the Toronto District School Board trustee and re-elected to the same position in 2006. He worked on a number of initiatives including installation of solar panels on school rooftops, keeping Toronto's school pools open, and helping students to achieve 'economic literacy'. He spoke against a proposal to create an Africentric school in Toronto.
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