How we built this

Roster

The City’s certified candidate list is the only roster. Campaign identities are checked against it. Status changes are dated, and acclamations are shown.

Promises and positions

Campaign websites, candidate questionnaires or attributable public statements, labelled as the candidate’s own claims. A platform is never inferred from party ties, demographics, previous employers or a single news article.

History and votes

Approved City, Region or school-board minutes, reports and decisions. Where individual roll calls are missing, the guide says so rather than showing a full voting history.

Press

Publisher, date, headline, link and a short summary, never full articles. News, opinion, allegations and final findings are kept apart. There is no mention count or score. No by-name press search has been done for any candidate yet, so no news items appear on any page. Every profile says: Press search: not done yet.

We check the same sources for every candidate. If we found nothing, the card says what we checked. Every certified candidate is listed, even where a profile is thin. Every race lists the current office holder first, then everyone else by surname, on identical cards.

An office holder’s band counts their terms in a row on the same council or board, the current one included. An earlier spell after a break is listed on their profile, not counted. The City’s published results go back to 2014, so where someone’s run reaches 2014 the band says “at least”: they may have served longer.

Platform items are filed under the same issue list for every candidate:

Taxes and spending

Property taxes, the City budget, fees and how public money is spent.

Housing and development

Housing supply and affordability, growth, planning and development applications.

Community safety

Policing, crime prevention and neighbourhood safety.

Traffic and roads

Traffic, road safety, traffic calming and road capacity.

Parks and environment

Parks, green space, trees, natural areas, wildlife and the environment.

Seniors

Services and programs for older residents.

Youth and families

Services and opportunities for children, youth and families.

Local business

Support for local businesses and the local economy.

Transit

Public transit service and access.

City services

Garbage and recycling, snow clearing, water, recreation and other day-to-day City services.

Governance and accountability

Transparency, accountability and how City Hall makes decisions.

Other

Items that do not fit the listed issues.

A vote record shows the meeting body and date, the item number, the motion and its relationship to other motions, each named member’s vote if recorded, the source and its location, the outcome, and whether the minutes are approved or draft. “Carried” alone is not a named yes vote, and moving or seconding a motion is not proof of a member’s final vote. A vote reported only by a secondary source is shown as unconfirmed, with no member’s vote, until the official minutes are found.

• For
• Against
• Absent
• Abstained
• Declared conflict, did not vote
• Not recorded

Located

We searched this source class and found material.

Not located

We searched and found nothing. That does not mean nothing exists.

Not yet searched

We have not searched this source class for this candidate yet.

Headlines only, not reviewed

We saw headlines but have not read and checked the items, so none is shown.

Not applicable

The source class does not apply, for example a council record for someone who is not on council.

Campaign site found, not yet read

We found the candidate's site but have not read it yet.

Not done yet

A step that has not been done for any candidate yet, such as the news search.

Not reviewed yet

We know the record exists but have not reviewed it yet, such as a sitting trustee's board votes.

All 43 certified candidates. We read every campaign site we could reach and copied what each candidate says in their own words. We took earlier roles and past runs from the City's election results for 2014 to 2024, and wrote a plain description of each of the 22 recorded votes and the 1 reported vote.

What we checked

What we have not done yet

We copy what a candidate wrote, check that the link and the candidate match, and a person reviews it before it goes live. Nothing goes live automatically. Every change is logged on the Corrections page.

This preview shows draft content, marked by the band at the top of every page. No item has completed human review yet.