Josh Matlow

Josh Matlow (born November 27, 1975) is a Canadian environmentalist, journalist and politician and has represented the midtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's since 2003 at the Toronto District School Board. He is a former director of Earthroots, an Ontario environmental non-governmental organization where he worked on achieving protection legislation for the Oak Ridges Moraine - the "Oak Ridges Conservation Act 2001", former campaign organizer for the Canadian Peace Alliance [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2003/01/18/demos_war030118.html] and ran for the Ontario Liberal Party in a 2002 provincial by-election against then-Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves.

As a Toronto District School Board trustee, he initiated a cell phone ban inside Toronto's public schools, a "Green Grid" project [http://www.thestar.com/News/article/228974] that will see renewable energy generators (such as solar panels) on school rooftops, homework policy reform [http://joshmatlow.ca/issues/homeworkpolicy.html] , campaigned to keep Toronto's school pools open [http://www.thestar.com/article/413158] and against a proposal to create an Africentric school in Toronto [http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20080131_150113_8040] . In his municipal election campaigns he does not accept donations from either unions or corporations. [http://app.toronto.ca/EFD/efdFormSearch.do?DIALOG-EVENT-searchCandidatePDF=true]

Matlow has written articles and columns for the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Organic Earth Magazine, Town Crier Newspapers and is a weekly contributor on Toronto talk-radio station AM 640.

External links

* [http://www.joshmatlow.ca Josh Matlow] personal website