Author and freelance commercial director running for Mayor again.
Paul Collins is on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Mayor, with a nomination filed on August 18, 2026. His campaign website describes him as a freelance commercial director and author and lists ten election promises. The City's declaration of results gives him 168 votes in the 2023 mayoral by-election.
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Paul Collins 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 18, 2026.
His campaign website says he is a freelance commercial director and author who has also worked as a film technician, and that he has worked on municipal campaigns since 1997. The Local describes him as an author and freelance commercial director who ran for mayor in 2023. These are his own statements, and voche.me has not checked them against another source.
The City's declaration of results for the 2023 mayoral by-election lists a Paul Collins with 168 votes. The Local confirms that this candidate ran for mayor in 2023.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His website says companies that own property should not be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, to address the affordability crisis, and that medicines and products with addictive ingredients should not be listed, to fight the opioid crisis. The Local notes that this is not within the scope of the mayor's powers.
Paul Collins campaign websiteHis website pledges that the TTC, Toronto's public transit system, will not be privatized. It also proposes a subway that runs more often and 24 hours a day, with a $1 subway-only fare as one idea, and building the Sheppard subway out to the Toronto Zoo.
Paul Collins campaign websiteHis website proposes the same tax incentives that film and television productions get for touring Broadway stage companies, and says empty theatres in the city would gain from more visitors.
Paul Collins campaign websiteHis website proposes a paid 14-week internship for at least one year of high school, and paid internships for college and university students.
Paul Collins campaign websiteHis website proposes championing Toronto becoming its own province, and until then asking the Province of Ontario to pay homeless and transit costs. It gives no cost figure.
Paul Collins campaign websiteEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates, the home page of the campaign website he gave the City, the City's declaration of results for the 2023 mayoral by-election, and The Local's candidate page. His proposals come from his campaign website and are written here as his campaign's proposals.
Gaps. The website names no employer or date for most of his past work, and voche.me found no independent record of it. The website's heading still shows a 2023 slogan on the page's top line, and its body text is for 2026. The two X accounts the website names were not opened. A web search for his name returned The Local, election trackers and his X account, and no news report with his own words. No public role is on the profile. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City's declaration of results lists a Paul Collins with 168 votes.
City of Toronto · Declaration of Results, 2023 By-Election for MayorHis campaign website says he freelances as a commercial director and film technician, directed a 2002 documentary called Just Talk and has worked on municipal campaigns since 1997. voche.me found no other source for these statements.
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