Candidate for Councillor in Ward 13 Toronto Centre, who worked at The 519 community centre before running.
Curran Stikuts is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 13 Toronto Centre, with a nomination filed on May 1, 2026 and the campaign website votecurran.ca. CBC News describes him as a political newcomer who previously worked as advocacy director at The 519, and reports that MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam has endorsed him.
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Curran Stikuts appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 13 Toronto Centre. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 1, 2026 and the campaign website votecurran.ca.
His website’s About section, the campaign’s own statement, says he was born and raised in downtown Toronto and started working in Toronto Centre in 2008 at a housing co-operative. It says he then spent a decade at The 519 Community Centre, most recently as Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications, served on non-profit boards focused on poverty reduction and 2SLGBTQ+ issues, sat on Toronto Public Health’s implementation panel for the City’s mental health and drug strategy, and co-chaired the 51 Division Community Police Liaison Committee. voche.me did not check these roles with the organizations.
CBC News reported on September 15, 2026 that he is a political newcomer who previously worked as advocacy director at The 519, a 2SLGBTQ+ community centre and social service organization, and that he told CBC he plans to treat affordability, safety and transit as connected issues. CBC also reports that Kristyn Wong-Tam, the former area councillor and current NDP MPP, endorsed him, and quotes her social media post: “[Stikuts] has the connections to Toronto Centre to deliver the strong progressive representation we deserve.” His website says he is also endorsed by the Toronto & York Region Labour Council. That is the campaign’s statement and voche.me did not check it with the Labour Council.
His Platform page, the campaign’s own statement, sets out commitments under headings that include housing, safety and support, public space, getting around, affordability, climate action and culture and nightlife. On housing it says he will push to expand the City’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program, which helps non-profits buy rental buildings, make sixplexes legal across Toronto, raise the Vacant Home Tax, double the Rent Bank and set up a Condo Resident Help Desk in the Councillor’s office. The page gives no costs for these commitments.
The Eyeopener reported on September 29, 2026 that he is one of 73 signers of a TTCriders pledge to keep transit affordable. TTCriders’ page of Ward 13 candidate responses lists him as answering Yes to each of its 18 questions. That page is TTCriders’ record.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His Platform page says he will push to expand the City’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition program, make sixplexes legal citywide, raise the Vacant Home Tax and the Municipal Non-Resident Speculation Tax, double the Rent Bank and set up a Condo Resident Help Desk.
These are the campaign’s own commitments, and the page gives no costs.
His Platform page says he will support more funding for the Toronto Community Crisis Service, add neighbourhood police officers in areas with persistent safety concerns, restore 24-hour respite centres and expand shelter capacity.
The page says enforcement should focus on people who sell dangerous drugs or commit serious offences. These are the campaign’s statements.
His home page says residents who reach out to their councillor should get a response, and that a councillor should help people deal with City systems and lead engagement that produces results.
Curran Stikuts · campaign home pageEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, two pages of his campaign website (home page and Platform), CBC News on the Toronto Centre race, The Local’s Ward 13 tracker, TTCriders’ page of Ward 13 candidate responses and The Eyeopener on a transit town hall. No public office is on record in his profile. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results lists no candidate named Curran Stikuts in Ward 13. The sitting Ward 13 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Chris Moise, who is also a candidate. The 11 candidates for Ward 13 on the City’s list are Chris Moise, Cleveland Marshall, Curran Stikuts, Daniel Tate, Joe Cadeau, Morgan Harris, Nicki Ward, Norman MacLeod, Tom Cai, Victoria Davis and Walied Khogali Ali. Every statement taken from his campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Gaps. His roles at The 519, on non-profit boards and on the police liaison committee come from his own website and were not checked with those organizations. The Local’s tracker describes more of his history, including a statement he made at a 2023 Board of Health meeting. voche.me did not open the meeting record, so that is left out. His social media accounts were not read. The second half of his Platform page, which covers getting around, affordability, climate action, culture and nightlife, was not read in full. The questionnaire has not been sent.
His website gives this role and period. CBC News says he previously worked at The 519 as advocacy director. voche.me did not check the dates with The 519.
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