Student, editor and civic researcher running for Mayor on a listening and evidence approach.
Mostafa Zandkarimi is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 5, 2026. His campaign website describes him as a Toronto-based student, editor and civic researcher, and says its platform is still being developed, with no policy published yet.
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Mostafa Zandkarimi appears on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 5, 2026.
His campaign website says he is a student, editor, civic researcher and youth leader who graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in 2026 and says he will enter the University of Toronto in September 2026. It says he founded and edits Midah, an independent Toronto publication, and has published six open-access issues. The Local reports that he is the founder of an online publication, completed a high school co-op placement at a law firm, and was a member of the Canada Youth Changemakers Summit. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them against another source.
His website says he built the Toronto Issue Intelligence Observatory, a record of 83 issues from 129 sources, as the starting point for the campaign. That count is the campaign's own figure.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His campaign page lists six areas it is asking residents about: housing and affordability, transit and movement, services that work, safety and belonging, strong neighbourhoods, and trust and accountability. It calls these areas of active listening and research, and not finalized promises.
Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For MayorHis campaign page says each policy release will explain the problem, the responsibility of the mayor and City Hall, the approach and how progress will be measured. Its policy library showed 0 published policies when voche.me read it.
Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · For MayorEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates, the home, Meet Mostafa and For Mayor pages of the campaign website that The Local links for him, and The Local's candidate page. The City's list shows no website for him, so voche.me confirmed the site belongs to him from its own text, which gives his name as the official ballot name and calls him a candidate for Mayor, and from The Local, whose description matches it. His statements are written here as his campaign's own.
Gaps. His policy library was empty when read, so no platform is recorded. voche.me found no independent record of his education, publication or placement, and Midah, the school and the law firm were not asked. His Instagram and LinkedIn accounts were not opened. A web search for his name returned his website, election trackers and no news report. No public role is on the profile. The questionnaire has not been sent.
His campaign website says he founded and edits Midah, an independent Toronto publication for politics, theology, literature, culture, essays, interviews and poetry, with six open-access issues published. voche.me did not open the publication.
Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet MostafaHis campaign website says he held both presidencies and was Vice President of the Asian Student Alliance. The school was not asked.
Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet MostafaHis campaign website says he did a supervised placement there in 2024. The firm was not asked. The Local also reports a high school co-op at a law firm.
Mostafa Zandkarimi campaign website · Meet MostafaProposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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