Candidate for Councillor in Ward 13 Toronto Centre, a Regent Park housing organizer who finished fifth in the ward in 2018.
Walied Khogali Ali 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 votewalied.ca. The City Clerk’s declaration of results shows a Walied Khogali Ali fifth of 19 in Ward 13 on October 22, 2018 with 1,408 votes, and The Local ties that result to this candidate. His website and The Local describe him as a Regent Park housing advocate and a co-founder of TTCriders.
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Walied Khogali Ali 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 votewalied.ca.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the October 22, 2018 general election lists Walied Khogali Ali fifth among 19 candidates for Councillor in Ward 13 Toronto Centre, with 1,408 votes. Kristyn Wong-Tam was first with 15,706 and was marked elected. The 19 declared totals add up to 31,249 votes, so his share was 4.5 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. The Local’s Ward 13 tracker says he ran in Toronto Centre in 2018 and placed fifth out of 19 candidates, which ties the City’s entry to this candidate. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration lists no candidate by this name in Ward 13.
His About page, the campaign’s own statement, says he has lived in Toronto Centre for twenty years and co-founded TTCriders, the transit advocacy group. It says he led the Toronto Environmental Alliance, held roles with the Canadian Arab Federation, the Toronto and York Region Labour Council and United Way, and co-founded the Coalition Against White Supremacy and Islamophobia in 2017. It says that because of his organizing, the rent-geared-to-income housing in one Toronto Centre community is growing from 633 homes to 1,270. voche.me did not check these roles or figures with the organizations.
His home page says he co-chairs the Regent Park Social Development Plan and helped secure $26.8 million in community benefits for the ward. The Local gives a similar account in its own words, including that he is co-chair of the board of the Regent Park Neighbourhood Association and has served on the City’s Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee from 2023 to 2026. The Eyeopener reported on September 29, 2026 that he is general manager of the Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Students’ Union and presented at a TTCriders town hall, where he said he was involved in creating the first U-Pass in the Greater Toronto Area.
His platform page, the campaign’s own statement, groups his commitments under six headings: housing as a human right, investing in communities, access to space, good jobs and youth opportunity, food security, and climate justice and green communities. It names specific proposals, including a City-run Youth Works Program, a Community Space Guarantee and expanding Social Development Plans across the city. The page gives no costs.
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 champion rent-geared-to-income, non-profit and co-op housing, enforce the City’s affordable housing definition based on income, stop renovictions and use public land for public benefit.
These are the campaign’s own statements, and the page gives no costs.
His platform page says he will expand Social Development Plans citywide, based on the Regent Park model, secure long-term core funding for community groups and put more City money into neighbourhoods that have been left behind.
Walied Khogali Ali · PlatformHis platform page says he will launch a City-run Youth Works Program with paid internships, co-ops and apprenticeships, and introduce a Community Space Guarantee for centres, parks and cultural hubs.
Walied Khogali Ali · PlatformEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, the City Clerk’s declaration of results for 2018, three pages of his campaign website (home page, About and Platform), 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 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 and the housing figures come from his website and The Local and were not checked with the organizations. The Local’s tracker carries a statement from one unnamed source about the end of an earlier job. voche.me searched for a primary record of it, found none, and leaves the statement out. His X and YouTube accounts returned page shells with no readable posts. His Ward 13, Events and News pages were not read in full. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results lists Walied Khogali Ali fifth of 19 with 1,408 votes, and The Local ties that result to this candidate.
City Clerk · Declaration of Results, 2018 Toronto municipal electionHis About page says he co-founded TTCriders, and The Local calls him a founding member. voche.me did not check this with TTCriders.
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