For Mayor of Toronto · 2026Affordable creative space
Protect and expand space for studios, rehearsal, production, performance, fabrication and community culture.
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Identity is infrastructure · ProposedToronto Creates.
Our artists and cultural workers should be able to build a life here. Arts and culture are part of Toronto’s identity, economy, neighbourhood life and global reputation.
Predictable permitting
Make film, event and cultural permits easier to navigate without weakening safety or neighbourhood responsibility.
Paid pathways
Connect students and emerging creators to paid work rather than expecting people to survive on exposure.
Public projects as creative opportunity
Include local design, storytelling, public art and cultural participation in city-building work where it creates real value.
Film and production ecosystem
Strengthen local production, postproduction, immersive media, digital work, crafts, crews and Canadian intellectual property.
Human authorship and fair work
Use responsible technology to expand creative capability while protecting consent, attribution, authorship and fair work.
Culture rule: a stronger Toronto should remain recognizably Toronto.
Toronto stories for the world
Who Let the Kids in the Candy Kingdom
The campaign plans to make a Toronto-created film that showcases the talent of local artists, performers, designers, technicians and creative teams.
The point is not to turn City policy into a movie. It is to demonstrate that Toronto should not only host the world’s stories—it should help its own creators own, build and share them.
Any public campaign presentation of the project should respect rights, consent, credit, professional standards and human creative control.
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