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"twitter:title": "Andrew Massey: candidate for Toronto District School Board in Ward 5, Toronto 2026" --- ** Toronto District School Board in Ward 5 · Toronto 2026 # Andrew Massey Candidate for Toronto District School Board trustee in the new Ward 5, a Grange Park resident who ran for the Green Party in 2025 and 2026. Andrew Massey is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Toronto District School Board in Ward 5, with a nomination filed on June 30, 2026. His campaign website says he is a Grange Park resident and technical writer. The Green Party of Canada’s own pages name him as its candidate in the 2026 University-Rosedale federal by-election, and the VoteMate site lists him as the Green candidate for Toronto Centre in the 2025 Ontario election. His website lists funding for schools, respect for families and community building as his priorities. Explore priorities Campaign links Researched by voche.me · Not a campaign-authored page Candidate space2026 ![Andrew Massey, from Andrew Massey campaign.](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/images/candidates/andrew-massey-640.webp) *Andrew MasseyToronto District School Boardv.* [Image: Andrew Massey campaign](https://www.votemassey.ca/) 01 / Introduction ## About Andrew Massey Andrew Massey appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Toronto District School Board in Ward 5. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as June 30, 2026 and a campaign website, votemassey.ca. His campaign website says he is a renter and long-time resident of the Grange Park neighbourhood, a voting member of the School Council at Ogden Junior Public School and an elected member of the Board of Directors of University Settlement. It says he is a technical writer on public rail infrastructure projects and was formerly a high school English teacher in Japan. voche.me did not check these statements with the organizations named. The Green Party of Canada announced him on February 12, 2026 as its candidate in University-Rosedale for an expected federal by-election, which is a vote held to fill a vacant seat between regular elections. A party release of April 15, 2026 thanks him among the candidates who represented the party in the recent by-elections. The VoteMate site lists him as the Green candidate for Toronto Centre in the 2025 Ontario election, with a biography it says the candidate or his team submitted. The vote counts were not read from an official results document, so none are given. Toronto municipal candidates have no party on the ballot, so this record states the Green candidacies as his past campaigns, in the party’s words. In his Know Your Vote T.O. answers he calls for reversing provincial cuts to special education and model school funding, says trustees should address discrimination with better policy and restorative practices, and says he would prioritize a proportional allocation model for specialized program seats. TDSB wards changed for 2026. Ward 5 covers City wards 10 (Spadina-Fort York) and 14 (Toronto-Danforth). The City Clerk’s declaration of results for October 24, 2022 shows Alexis Dawson elected in the old Ward 9 and Sara Ehrhardt elected in the old Ward 15, and the TDSB’s trustee list for 2018 to 2022 names the old Ward 9 as Davenport and Spadina-Fort York and the old Ward 15 as Toronto-Danforth. Those results belong to the old wards and are not treated as results for the new Ward 5. The TDSB’s trustee wards page says that during provincial supervision the powers of trustees rest with the provincially appointed Supervisor, that trustees have no official duties with the board at this time, and that this also applies to trustees elected in October 2026. 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 ### Fund our schools His website says the province’s cuts under supervision hurt downtown communities, and that as trustee he would press for reversing special education and model school cuts, a funding formula based on student needs, and opposition to school closures and sales. [Andrew Massey campaign website ](https://www.votemassey.ca/) 02 ### Respect families His website says he would regularly call for repeal of Bill 33, hold monthly town halls and publish plain-language explanations of board and budget decisions. [Andrew Massey campaign website ](https://www.votemassey.ca/) 03 ### Build community His website lists dedicated on-site administrators, reinstated class size caps, more educational assistants and special needs staff, training in restorative practices, and removal of the uniformed School Resource Officer program. [Andrew Massey campaign website ](https://www.votemassey.ca/) [Green Party of Canada · Announces Candidates for Expected Toronto By-Elections](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-announces-candidates-for-expected-toronto-by-elections) Research status ## What voche.me has checked Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, his campaign website, his Know Your Vote T.O. page, two Green Party of Canada pages, his VoteMate page, the TDSB’s trustee wards page, the City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results and the TDSB’s 2018 to 2022 trustee list. A campaign never verifies itself, so his biography is attributed to his website and his Green Party candidacies to the party’s own pages. The party pages are the party’s statements about its own candidate. A search also returned a third-party page saying a person of this name ran in the 2018 Ward 10 council race. voche.me did not read the City’s 2018 results document, so no 2018 result is given. Gaps. His Know Your Vote T.O. page lists Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. The Instagram page opened as a login page and the Facebook page showed only its title, “Andrew Massey - TDSB Ward 5 Trustee Candidate”, so nothing from them is used. He holds no public role on record, so no board minutes were searched. His website makes statements about provincial cuts and the board’s budget, and those are his campaign’s claims, not checked here. No news report quoting him on the trustee race was found. The questionnaire has not been sent. [City of Toronto · list of certified candidates](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/candidate-list/) [Andrew Massey campaign website](https://www.votemassey.ca/) [Know Your Vote T.O. · Andrew Massey, TDSB Ward 5](https://knowyourvote.to/candidates/toronto-district-school-board-ward-5-andrew-massey) [Green Party of Canada · Announces Candidates for Expected Toronto By-Elections, February 12, 2026](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-announces-candidates-for-expected-toronto-by-elections) [Green Party of Canada · Thanks By-Election Candidates and Volunteers, April 15, 2026](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-thanks-by-election-candidates-and-volunteers) [VoteMate · Andrew Massey, Green for Toronto Centre, 2025 Ontario election](https://votemate.org/ontario2025/candidates/11123) [TDSB · Trustee Wards](https://www.tdsb.on.ca/leadership/trustee-wards) [City Clerk · Declaration of Results, 2022 Toronto municipal election](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/9085-FinalDeclaration-of-Results-for-the-2022-Toronto-Municipal-Election.pdf) [TDSB · Trustees, 2018-2022](https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/docs/Trustees_2018-2022.pdf) 03 / Background ## Experience & community 2026 ### Green Party of Canada candidate, University-Rosedale federal by-election The Green Party of Canada announced him on February 12, 2026 as its candidate for the expected by-election, and a release of April 15, 2026 thanks him as one of its by-election candidates. The party release says the Green Party passed 2 percent of the vote in both Greater Toronto Area ridings and gives no result for him alone, so voche.me gives none. [Green Party of Canada · Thanks By-Election Candidates and Volunteers, April 15, 2026](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-thanks-by-election-candidates-and-volunteers) Dates not given ### School Council member and University Settlement board member, by his campaign’s account His website says he is a voting member of the School Council at Ogden Junior Public School and an elected member of the Board of Directors of University Settlement. voche.me did not check it with either organization. [Andrew Massey campaign website](https://www.votemassey.ca/) 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 Andrew Massey 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 Andrew Massey's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Andrew Massey? No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Andrew Massey's own campaign.
Does Andrew Massey currently hold public office? Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Andrew Massey.
How many sources does this Andrew Massey profile cite? This profile lists 9 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Andrew Massey's page show no answer? The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Andrew Massey 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 Andrew Massey is running in? The 2026 Toronto municipal election, including the Toronto District School Board 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 Toronto · list of certified candidates ](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/candidate-list/)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Andrew Massey campaign website ](https://www.votemassey.ca/)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Know Your Vote T.O. · Andrew Massey, TDSB Ward 5 ](https://knowyourvote.to/candidates/toronto-district-school-board-ward-5-andrew-massey)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Green Party of Canada · Announces Candidates for Expected Toronto By-Elections, February 12, 2026 ](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-announces-candidates-for-expected-toronto-by-elections)Checked October 4, 2026 - [Green Party of Canada · Thanks By-Election Candidates and Volunteers, April 15, 2026 ](https://www.greenparty.ca/en/news/green-party-of-canada-thanks-by-election-candidates-and-volunteers)Checked October 4, 2026 - [VoteMate · Andrew Massey, Green for Toronto Centre, 2025 Ontario election ](https://votemate.org/ontario2025/candidates/11123)Checked October 4, 2026 - [TDSB · Trustee Wards ](https://www.tdsb.on.ca/leadership/trustee-wards)Checked October 4, 2026 - [City Clerk · Declaration of Results, 2022 Toronto municipal election ](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/9085-FinalDeclaration-of-Results-for-the-2022-Toronto-Municipal-Election.pdf)Checked October 4, 2026 - [TDSB · Trustees, 2018-2022 ](https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/docs/Trustees_2018-2022.pdf)Checked October 4, 2026 Missing information does not imply a candidate’s position. [Read our editorial standards.](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/about) Campaign contact ## Campaign links & contact. Find the candidate’s website, social accounts and contact information. [Andrew Massey campaign website](https://www.votemassey.ca/) ## View more candidates. [All candidate spaces ](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates) [Toronto District School Board**Abdul Azeem Mohammed**](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates/abdul-azeem-mohammed) [Toronto District School Board**Adam Golding**](https://voche.me/on/toronto-2026/candidates/adam-golding) Candidate Q&A ## Ask Andrew Massey 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/toronto-2026/sitemap.md) for all pages.