Resources
Self-Print Flyers & Handouts
Click & create your choice of flyer to distribute at events & venues!
Formatted to print 2 sided on your home printer to produce 2 flyers per standard 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper:
"Powering Ontario’s Growth" Sept 20th Webinar OCEC Flyer with QR code
"Powering Ontario’s Growth" Sept 20th Webinar OCEC Flyer
Formatted to print 1 sided on your home printer to produce 4 flyers per standard 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper:
Action Letter Flyer with QR code
Ontario's municipal elections take place on October 26, 2026. Municipal governments make decisions that directly affect climate action, housing, transportation, farmland, public health and community resilience.
Explore these resources to learn about local priorities, evaluate candidates and ask informed questions before casting your vote.
Advance voting dates vary by municipality. Check your local municipality's election website for voting locations, advance polling dates and other election information.
Tools and Resources for Voters
Alliance for a Liveable Ontario — Roadmap for Municipalities
Ten priorities to bring to municipal candidates, including building liveable neighbourhoods, safeguarding food and water security, and making housing affordable.
Ontario Clean Air Alliance — Toronto Candidate Responses
Explore Toronto municipal candidates' responses to questions about renewable energy using an interactive ward map.
ClimateFast — Toronto Councillor Voting Records
Search councillors' voting records by issue and compare their positions using detailed records and scorecards.
Toronto Star — Vote Compass
Compare your priorities with municipal candidates' platform positions using a questionnaire and location-specific results.
Civic Searchlight — National Observer
Search municipal council and committee meeting recordings and transcripts from approximately 550 municipalities across Canada.
Vision Waterloo Region — Nine-Point Vision
Learn how to contribute a short video supporting the region's nine-point vision. Select "Easy Instructions" on the website.
City of Toronto — The Wards Project
A collection of questions to help residents engage with municipal candidates about issues affecting their communities.
Climate Action Partnership — Questions for Candidates
A comprehensive set of questions about climate risks, municipal planning, infrastructure, adaptation and community resilience.
Visit Climate Action Partnership
2026 Ontario Municipal Election Resources
Questions for candidates
General
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How do you think climate change is already affecting our municipality?
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What do you see as the most significant climate-related risks facing our community over the next 10 to 20 years?
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What role do you think municipalities have in addressing climate change?
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How familiar are you with our municipality’s climate action plan, emissions reduction targets, or adaptation strategy?
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Do you think climate change poses financial risks to municipalities? If so, what are they?
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What municipal services or infrastructure do you think are most vulnerable to climate impacts such as flooding, extreme heat, ice storms, or power outages?
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How do you stay informed about climate science and emerging climate-related municipal issues?
Land Use Planning and Growth
These are especially relevant in Ontario, where municipal planning decisions significantly
influence emissions and resilience.
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How can municipal planning decisions help reduce future climate risks?
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What role should climate considerations play in official plans and zoning decisions?
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How would you support development patterns that reduce transportation emissions and infrastructure costs?
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How can municipalities preserve and expand natural assets such as wetlands, forests, and urban tree canopy?
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What is your perspective on compact, complete, and walkable communities?
Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Many residents find these questions resonate regardless of political views because they focus
on community protection.Municipalities bear the expense of climate disasters and dangers.
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How should our municipality prepare for increasing floods, heat waves, storms, and other climate-related events? For example, CAP is promoting a maximum temperature bylaw.
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What investments are needed to improve community resilience?
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How should vulnerable populations be supported during extreme weather events?
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What role should emergency preparedness play in climate planning?
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How can municipalities strengthen local infrastructure to reduce climate-related risks and costs?
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The National Farmers Union is focusing on issues such as loss of farmland, groundwater protection, stormwater management, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and emergency preparedness in rural municipalities.
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CAPE (Ontario) notes that local decisions regarding active transportation, tree canopy expansion, and zero-emission transit directly impact community health outcomes
2025 Ontario Election Resources
Collected Voter Resource Document
Feb 13/25 Town Hall Recording: Vote! To Secure Our Future
Ontario Policy & Climate Impacts on Health: Slide deck from Feb 13/25 Town Hall
Bill 23 And The Negative Impacts to Our Health
Press Conference Nov 28, 10:00 am
Representatives from a broad diversity of Ontarians will be holding a media conference on Monday, November 28th at 10:00 am. The speakers will be expressing their opposition to Bill 23, the province’s so-called “More Homes Built Faster” act.
Statements will be given by the following:
Chief Kelly LaRocca, Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (Written statement to be presented by the moderator)
Dr. Mili Roy, Chair, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Ontario Chapter
Alejandra Ruiz Vargas, ACORN Toronto
Steve Parish, Former Mayor, Town of Ajax
Read the responses to Bill 23 by
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Ontario Climate Emergency Coalition
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"Bill 23 has not been developed with a climate lens in mind. Developing housing on the
Greenbelt will result in loss of carbon sinks in wetlands, forest, and farmland. New homes should meet a higher building standard and should be heated and cooled without fossil fuels. Such homes are no more expensive to build, more comfortable to live in and less expensive to operate." read more
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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Ontario Regional Committee
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"Bill 23 is not in the interest of Ontario or Ontarians. It contains the potential to unleash incalculable health harms starting immediately and to be entrenched for generations to come...." read more
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The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO)
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"Housing is a critical determinant of health – yet in Ontario, we have a crisis with a lack of affordable options and increasing homelessness....The consequences of climate inaction have been clearly laid out in evidence.." read more
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Other Resources:
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Grassroots organizers from all across Ontario are holding rallies at MPPs' offices to say #HandsOffTheGreenbelt and #StopBill23 Visit Environmental Defenses website to learn more.
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Water Watchers is a good resource to learn more about various actions you can take as a person or an organization. Visit their website
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To learn more about Bill 23, how to take action yourself, and what actions other groups are taking across the province visit this crowdsourced page www.againstbill23.com
Stay up to date on emerging information about Bill 23 by following us on Twitter @ocecampaign
Ontario 2022 Municipal Climate Action Pledge
Municipal Election Voter Pledge Campaigns across Ontario
Hamilton 350 - Candidate Pledge
Greener City for All Candidate Pledge (Toronto)
Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition - Call to Action
Climate Action Muskoka - Municipal Election Candidate Survey
Stop Sprawl Durham (Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, and Clarington)
Ecology Ottawa’s All-Candidate’s Environmental Survey
Environmental Defence Policy Commitments:
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Ontario June 2022 Election Candidates Contact Lists
Contact information for all party candidates as currently available is found here
Please use to direct your communications for OCEC Toolkits
(Updates will be posted as they become available)
Wikipedia list of Candidates of the 2022 Ontario General Election is found here
Candidate lists by Party in alphabetical order:
Responses to the OCEC Provincial Action Plan 2022
These are the summarized responses in Table form of the main political parties in Ontario (listed in alphabetical order) when asked to comment on their support for the OCEC Climate Action Plan. Links to each Party policy platform where publicly available are found at the bottom of the Table.
These are the full text responses of the main political parties in Ontario (listed in alphabetical order) when asked to comment on their support for the OCEC Climate Action Plan.
Green Party of Ontario
New Democratic Party of Ontario
Progressive Conservatives of Ontario
