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"twitter:title": "Ariel Troster: candidate for Councillor in Ward 14 Somerset, Ottawa 2026" --- ** Councillor in Ward 14 Somerset · Ottawa 2026 # Ariel Troster Sitting Councillor for Ward 14 Somerset since 2022, running for a second term. Ariel Troster is the sitting Councillor for Ward 14 Somerset, according to the City’s list of elected officials, and is on the City’s list of certified candidates for the same ward, with a nomination dated May 7, 2026. The City’s results give her 8,663 of the 14,137 votes cast in Ward 14 in 2022, which is 61.3 percent, in a race of 3 candidates. The Council minutes record her voting against the 2026 police budget and the adoption of the 2026 budgets, and CBC News reports that she moved the motion that led to the Rental Renovation Licence By-law, which Council passed on July 15, 2026. Her campaign says its priorities are housing and homelessness, community safety, safer streets, community life and the arts, transparency at City Hall, and trees and greenspace. Explore priorities Campaign links Researched by voche.me · Not a campaign-authored page Candidate space2026 ![Ariel Troster, from Ariel Troster campaign (troster2026.ca).](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/images/candidates/ariel-troster-640.webp) *Ariel TrosterCouncillorv.* [Image: Ariel Troster campaign (troster2026.ca)](https://www.troster2026.ca/) 01 / Introduction ## About Ariel Troster The City of Ottawa’s list of elected officials for 2022 to 2026 shows Ariel Troster as Councillor for Ward 14 Somerset. The City’s list of certified candidates shows her nomination for the same ward dated May 7, 2026, with the same date for her registration in the Contribution Rebate Program. The City’s published results for the October 24, 2022 election give her 8,663 of the 14,137 votes cast in Ward 14, which is 61.3 percent, the most votes in a race of 3 candidates. The City’s page for her, in a copy saved on August 11, 2025, titles her Councillor and Deputy Mayor, says she is the Council Liaison for Women, Gender Equity and 2SLGBTQ+ Affairs, and says she is a member of the Planning and Housing, Community Services, Built Heritage and Transportation committees. It also says that before she ran for office she worked with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and holds a BA in journalism and history, a graduate diploma in Community Economic Development and an MA in Feminist and Gender Studies. voche.me did not check those degrees with the schools. The Council minutes of four meetings record her votes by name. On December 10, 2025 she voted against the 2026 Ottawa Police Service budget (carried 20 to 5, with Councillors King, Menard, Johnson and Bradley also against), for a motion by Councillor King that would have matched a $5.4 million police reserve allocation with $5.4 million for ANCHOR (a program that sends non-police crisis teams) and community hubs (lost 9 to 16), and against the motion that adopted the 2026 budgets (carried 21 to 4, with Councillors Luloff, Leiper and Devine also against). On April 22, 2026 she voted against the Safe Access to Social Infrastructure By-law (carried 20 to 4, with Councillors Menard, Devine and Bradley also against) and for an amendment that would have removed the by-law’s ban on demonstrations inside safe access zones (lost 6 to 18). On July 15, 2026 she voted for the Rental Renovation Licence By-law review (carried 20 to 5). On September 9, 2026 she voted for a motion by Councillor King that asks the federal government to extend its consultation on the Eastern Bridge Project (carried 23 to 2). CBC News reported that on June 3, 2026 the planning and housing committee passed a motion by Troster that asked City staff to bring forward a bylaw against renovictions, which is when a landlord evicts a tenant to renovate a unit and then rents it at a higher price. CBC News describes her as the councillor who has pushed hardest for that bylaw since 2024. The CBC News update says Council voted for the bylaw on July 15, 2026 and that it comes into force on January 1, 2027. Capital Current quotes her calling it a first step that protects renters while letting responsible landlords finish real renovations. On April 7, 2026 CBC News reported that she moved a motion that passed at the finance and corporate services committee, asking staff for a downtown public washroom plan. Her campaign website says she has been Councillor since 2022 and that she worked in the non-profit and labour sectors as a communications, policy and campaign strategist. It lists a plan with six parts: housing and homelessness, community safety, safer streets, community life and the arts, transparency at City Hall, and trees and greenspace. In it she promises a housing acquisition fund to save affordable rentals, a rent bank, more supportive housing, a wider ANCHOR program across the city, a vacant commercial property tax, more protected bike lanes, a permanent Street Seats pop-up patio program, and a refusal of campaign donations from developers. In the CBC News questionnaire she names transit reliability and ending chronic homelessness as the main tasks, supports a transit levy and an infrastructure levy, and says the police budget is appropriate while she wants more crime prevention, foot patrols and community supports. In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she would not support a police budget increase without a clear audit and equal funding for social services. She says she has consistently voted against fare increases and against the Mayor’s budget direction. She lists as results of her term the renoviction bylaw, ANCHOR in Centretown, the Gladstone and Gilmour bikeway and the Street Seats program. In The BUZZ questions of August 2026 she says she has joined the NDP at various points to vote for its leader and has never been a particularly active member, and that she did not accept donations from the development sector in 2022 and will not now. These are her own statements, and voche.me checked only the votes described above. The sources read hold no complaint against her. Read the sources 02 / The issues ## Priorities & positions Campaign-source summary Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform. 01 ### Housing and homelessness Her campaign plan proposes a housing acquisition fund to save affordable rentals, stronger bylaw enforcement against landlords who let properties fall into disrepair, a rent bank to prevent homelessness, and more high-needs supportive housing.
Read the full position In the CTV News Ottawa questionnaire she says she would push for a focused strategy to move the people in the worst condition off the streets.
[Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) 02 ### Community safety Her plan says she would keep the CORE policing program accountable and attentive to hot spots, scale up the ANCHOR program and community outreach city-wide, invest in youth outreach and conflict resolution, improve lighting, and fight for a vacant commercial property tax.
Read the full position On the police budget she tells CBC News it is appropriate and she wants more crime prevention and community foot patrols. She told The BUZZ she would not seek a seat on the Ottawa Police Service Board, so that she can hold the service to account as a member of Council.
[Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) 03 ### Safer streets and transit Her plan asks for priority snow clearing, faster sidewalk repairs, faster building of protected bike lanes, more protected intersections and a city-wide bike share program.
Read the full position In the CBC News questionnaire she names frequent and reliable public transit as the biggest challenge for the next term and says she would reverse the New Ways to Bus changes and favour a transit levy.
[Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) 04 ### Community life and the arts She wants the Street Seats program made permanent and expanded to all downtown neighbourhoods, more funding for festivals, public art and community cultural programs, a leasing program for vacant spaces, and faster permits for businesses and events. [Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) 05 ### Transparency at City Hall Her plan says she would involve neighbours and community groups in the budget, refuse campaign donations from developers as she says she did in 2022, and push the City to tell residents about major files early.
Read the full position In the NCR Now questions she says she has voted against the Mayor’s budget direction because a tax rate should not be set before the City assesses its needs.
[Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) 06 ### Trees and greenspace She says she would expand free City tree planting, fund more street trees in the heat zones of Centretown, Chinatown and Little Italy, involve residents in the renewal of McNabb, Dundonald and Plouffe parks, and support a planter box program.
Read the full position She tells CBC News that Somerset has the lowest tree coverage of the National Capital Region.
[Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform) Research status ## What voche.me has checked Evidence reviewed on October 6, 2026: the City’s list of certified candidates for Ward 14, its open data file of nominations, its list of elected officials and its 2022 results, the City’s page for her (an Internet Archive copy of August 11, 2025), her campaign website (home, Meet Ariel, Plan, News and Events), her Bluesky account, CBC News of April 7, June 3, July 8 and August 25, 2026, CTV News Ottawa of September 11, 2026, Capital Current of July 2026, NCR Now of September 2, 2026, the Centretown BUZZ of August 19 and September 2026, and four sets of Council minutes (December 10, 2025, April 22, July 15 and September 9, 2026). Gaps. Her Facebook page showed nothing to a visitor who is not logged in. Committee minutes were not searched, and her committee roles and the Deputy Mayor title rest on the City’s page copied on August 11, 2025. Her statements about her first term, her degrees, her work before 2022 and her board roles were not checked with the bodies named. Her votes on 2026 matters other than the four meetings above were not searched. The voche.me questionnaire has not been sent. 03 / Background ## Experience & community 2022 to present ### City Councillor, Ward 14 Somerset The City’s list of elected officials 2022 to 2026 shows her as the Ward 14 Councillor, and the City’s 2022 results give her 8,663 of 14,137 votes. The City’s page for her, copied on August 11, 2025, titles her Councillor and Deputy Mayor. [City of Ottawa open data · Elected Officials 2022-2026 (Ward 14 row)](https://services.arcgis.com/G6F8XLCl5KtAlZ2G/arcgis/rest/services/_Elected_Officials_2022_2026/FeatureServer/0) 2022 to present, as the City page describes it ### Committee roles and Council liaison The City’s page for her, copied on August 11, 2025, lists membership of the Planning and Housing, Community Services, Built Heritage and Transportation committees and the role of Council Liaison for Women, Gender Equity and 2SLGBTQ+ Affairs. voche.me has not checked these against committee minutes. [City of Ottawa · Councillor page for Ariel Troster (Internet Archive copy of August 11, 2025)](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/mayor-and-city-councillors/ariel-troster-councillor-ward-14-somerset) Dates not given ### Federation of Canadian Municipalities, communications and advocacy The City’s page for her says she worked with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities before running for office, and she says in the CBC News questionnaire that this was five years of communications and advocacy work. voche.me has not checked this with the Federation. [City of Ottawa · Councillor page for Ariel Troster (Internet Archive copy of August 11, 2025)](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/mayor-and-city-councillors/ariel-troster-councillor-ward-14-somerset) Dates not given, as she describes it ### Board member, Egale Canada and the Ten Oaks Project; refugee sponsorship In the CBC News questionnaire and on her campaign website she says she sat on the boards of Egale Canada and the Ten Oaks Project and helped sponsor refugees and asylum seekers with Rainbow Haven. voche.me has not checked this with those organizations. [CBC News · Candidate questionnaire: Ariel Troster, Ward 14 Somerset](https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/28713097/ariel-troster-ward-14-somerset.pdf) 04 / Questions & answers ## Questions for the candidate Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied. No questions and answers have been supplied. ### Have your own question? Ask Ariel Troster directly. We send it to the campaign, and publish the reply here if we get one. 05 / About this page ## Questions about this page Facts voche.me can state about Ariel Troster's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Ariel Troster? No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Ariel Troster's own campaign.
Does Ariel Troster currently hold public office? Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Ariel Troster.
How many sources does this Ariel Troster profile cite? This profile lists 24 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Ariel Troster's page show no answer? The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Ariel Troster in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Ariel Troster is running in? The 2026 Ottawa municipal election, including the Councillor race, is decided on October 26, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions ## Space for campaign updates ### No campaign updates yet Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added. ## Sources & transparency - [City of Ottawa · certified candidates, Councillor ](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/candidates/certified-and-acclaimed-candidates)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · certified candidates, Ward 14 Somerset (list last updated August 31, 2026) ](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/candidates/certified-and-acclaimed-candidates/certified-and-acclaimed-candidates-city-councillor/certified-candidates-ward-14-somerset)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa open data · 2026 Municipal Elections, nominated candidates ](https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/5b79177ae7524c9fa68f79e852527604)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa open data · Elected Officials 2022-2026 (Ward 14 row) ](https://services.arcgis.com/G6F8XLCl5KtAlZ2G/arcgis/rest/services/_Elected_Officials_2022_2026/FeatureServer/0)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa open data · 2022 Elections Official Results (Statement of Votes Cast) ](https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/ec1423ac43254bff8692fabd5d47772b)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · Councillor page for Ariel Troster (Internet Archive copy of August 11, 2025) ](https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/mayor-and-city-councillors/ariel-troster-councillor-ward-14-somerset)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Ariel Troster campaign · Home ](https://www.troster2026.ca/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Ariel Troster campaign · Meet Ariel ](https://www.troster2026.ca/about)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Ariel Troster campaign · Plan ](https://www.troster2026.ca/platform)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Ariel Troster on Bluesky (read through Bluesky’s public interface) ](https://bsky.app/profile/arieltroster.bsky.social)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CBC News · Somerset ward: Here’s who’s running to be your Ottawa city councillor, August 25, 2026 (updated October 5) ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/somerset-ward-election-city-ottawa-2026-9.7312732)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CBC News · Candidate questionnaire: Ariel Troster, Ward 14 Somerset ](https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/28713097/ariel-troster-ward-14-somerset.pdf)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CTV News Ottawa · Meet the candidates for councillor in Ward 14 Somerset, September 11, 2026 ](https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/meet-the-candidates-for-councillor-in-ward-14-somerset/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [NCR Now · 5 Questions with Ariel Troster, Somerset Councillor Seeking Re-Election, September 2, 2026 ](https://ncrnow.ca/2026/09/02/5-questions-with-councillor-ariel-troster/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Centretown BUZZ · What Somerset Ward candidates told The BUZZ, August 19, 2026 ](https://centretownbuzz.ca/2026/08/what-somerset-ward-candidates-told-the-buzz-first-eight-questions/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Centretown BUZZ · Somerset Ward candidates on police and community safety, September 2026 ](https://centretownbuzz.ca/2026/09/2026-somerset-ward-candidates-on-police-and-community-safety/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CBC News · City councillor pushes for downtown public washroom plan, April 7, 2026 ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-downtown-public-washroom-plan-2026-9.7155193)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CBC News · Frustrated councillors move to force staff to table renoviction bylaw, June 3, 2026 ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/frustrated-councillors-move-to-force-staff-to-table-renoviction-bylaw-9.7222452)Checked October 6, 2026 - [CBC News · Ottawa renoviction bylaw that satisfies neither landlords nor tenants passes committee, July 8, 2026 (updated July 15) ](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-renoviction-rule-law-bylaw-vote-city-9.7262912)Checked October 6, 2026 - [Capital Current · Ottawa council approves renoviction bylaw to curb bad-faith evictions, July 2026 ](https://capitalcurrent.ca/ottawa-council-approves-renoviction-bylaw-to-curb-bad-faith-evictions/)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · City Council minutes, December 10, 2025 (2026 budget meeting) ](https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=4d914219-00c6-48c4-bcc6-b82ca579c430&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · City Council minutes, April 22, 2026 (Minutes 78) ](https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=b8f046ed-1ad8-41a3-9c20-c177b0dde00a&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · City Council minutes, July 15, 2026 (Minutes 83) ](https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=ba9d583c-b16d-4f97-9e87-a7b16b5825f4&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English)Checked October 6, 2026 - [City of Ottawa · City Council minutes, September 9, 2026 (Minutes 85) ](https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=0576ac9f-74e8-4986-b8f8-9c96b26f6e67&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English)Checked October 6, 2026 Missing information does not imply a candidate’s position. [Read our editorial standards.](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/about) Campaign contact ## Campaign links & contact. Find the candidate’s website, social accounts and contact information. [Ariel Troster campaign website](https://www.troster2026.ca/) [Ariel Troster on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/arieltroster.bsky.social) ## View more candidates. [All candidate spaces ](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates) [Councillor**Ahmed Alsabaawi**](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/ahmed-alsabaawi) [Councillor**Ahmed Rashid**](https://voche.me/on/ottawa-2026/candidates/ahmed-rashid) Candidate Q&A ## Ask Ariel Troster a question. Give your name, email and question. We send it to the campaign, and publish their answer here if we get one. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/on/ottawa-2026/sitemap.md) for all pages.