Candidate for Councillor in Ward 5 York South-Weston, a music teacher and minister who supervised a refugee shelter.
Matthew Boateng is a candidate for Councillor in Ward 5 York South-Weston, with a nomination filed on August 14, 2026. His campaign website says he is a music teacher, an ordained minister and a community liaison who supervised a Toronto shelter from June 2023 to April 2025. It lists six platform commitments on affordability, safety, youth, jobs, seniors and community infrastructure.
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Toronto municipal electionMatthew Boateng appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 5 York South-Weston. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 14, 2026 and the campaign website matthewboateng.com.
His campaign website says he was born and raised in Ward 5, completed the University of Toronto’s Transitional Year Programme with the Class of 2026, and works as a music teacher, an ordained Reverend-Minister and a community liaison. It says he was Shelter Supervisor at the MAFAN Shelter from June 2023 to April 2025, running operations during the African refugee crisis, including intake, crisis support and housing placement. It lists volunteer work with 360°kids, the Syme Woolner Neighbourhood and Family Centre and Miracle Arena for All Nations. These are the campaign’s own statements, and voche.me did not check them with the organisations named. The Local, in its candidate tracker updated September 21, 2026, repeats that his website calls him a reverend and a music teacher.
His website’s message is “Protecting Communities. Investing in People.” It names five issues from the doors: rent that outpaces pay, youth without pathways, street safety, isolation of seniors, and deferred community infrastructure. It lists six commitments covering affordability, safer communities, youth opportunity, good jobs, seniors, and maintenance of parks, transit and roads. The Local summarises his platform as affordable rental housing, tougher action on illegal rent increases and renovictions, fair TTC fares, preventive community safety, and flood mitigation in Rockcliffe-Smythe.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
The site lists protecting families by making life more affordable, building safer communities through prevention, lighting and youth programming, investing in youth through mentorship, apprenticeships and first jobs, growing good jobs in trades and small business, protecting seniors, and maintaining parks, transit and roads.
This is the campaign’s platform. It is a pledge, and the page gives no costs or timelines.
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City’s list of certified candidates, the home and About pages of his campaign website, his Know Your Vote T.O. page, The Local’s Ward 5 candidate page and The Green Line’s Ward 5 guide. His website refused the saving script (HTTP 403), so both pages were read with a page-reading tool and the saved files are summaries, not the full text. Every statement taken from his campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Gaps. The sources opened give no public office, earlier election result or news report with his own words. His jobs, shelter post and volunteer work were not checked with the organisations named. His Know Your Vote T.O. page shows all 6 questions as awaiting submission. His Instagram page loads only a sign-in screen to a plain request, and his Facebook page showed no readable post, so no social post was read. The questionnaire has not been sent.
His campaign website says he supervised shelter operations during the African refugee crisis, supporting asylum claimants with intake, crisis support and housing placement. voche.me did not check this with the shelter.
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