About Josh Matlow

Josh Matlow has represented the midtown Toronto riding of St. Paul's since 2003 at the Toronto District School Board. He is a former co-director of Earthroots, an Ontario environmental non-governmental organization where he worked on achieving protection legislation for the Oak Ridges Moraine - the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, former campaign organizer for the Canadian Peace Alliance 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 that will see renewable energy generators (such as solar panels) on school rooftops, homework policy reform, campaigned to keep Toronto's school pools open, has advocated for governance and accountability reform, initiated an "Economic Literacy" curriculum to teach students about financial basics like credit cards, budgets and the stock market fought for initiatives to curb youth violence and against a proposal to create an Africentric school in Toronto. In his municipal election campaigns he does not accept donations from either unions or corporations.

Josh Matlow has been a Toronto Star's "Newsmakers of the Year", Post City Magazines: Toronto's Best Public Official and Now Magazine's "Top Activists of the Year". He 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.

Boards and Committees
TDSB's Programs and School Services Committee (Current)

TDSB's Administration, Finance and Accountability Committee
TDSB's Planning and Priorities Committee
TDSB's Nutrition Working Group
EPIT (TDSB Environmental Policy Implementation Team)
Canadian Jewish Congress' Community Relations Committee
North Toronto Green Community board of directors
Greenpower board of directors
Steering Committee of the Ontario Smart Growth Network
City of Toronto's Clean Streets Working Group
Coalition On the Niagara Escarpment's board of directors
Toronto Board of Trade's Clean City Task Force
EnerAct's Steering Committee on Public Education
Colborne Lodge/Mackenzie House/Spadina House Community Museum Management Board
Past Chair of the TDSB's Intergovernmental Affairs and Community Relations Committee

Membership with Organizations
Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

Earthroots