Colin Vaughan

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Colin Vaughan was a Canadian television journalist, who was Citytv's political specialist from 1977 until his death on January 1, 2000.

Born in Australia, Vaughan studied architecture in Sydney and moved to Montreal, Canada in the 1950s. He moved to Toronto in the mid-fifties to work at Page and Steele, a noted Toronto firm. There he met Peter Dickinson. In the late fifties he became one of Peter Dickinson's original associates with Dickinson's new firm. In the early sixties he, Rod Robbbie, Dick Williams set out on their own. The new firm Robbie, Vaughan and Williams would go on to win a competition to build Canada's pavilion at Expo '67. Vaughan also worked on the O'Keefe Centre's interior as well as the Inn on the Park and 2 King Street West.

In the late sixties he helped lead the Stop Spadina movement, a citizens' group opposed to inner city expressways in Toronto.

In 1972 he was elected to Toronto City Council and in 1974 he was elected to Metro Council. Vaughan was one of several new aldermen elected in 1972 who created a pro-reform, pro-neighbourhood majority on city council under the new reform mayor David Crombie.

Vaughan left city council in the 1977, after five years on city council, to begin a new career as a journalist with Citytv's new local daily news show, CityPulse. In later decades, he also wrote on municipal politics for the Globe & Mail the Toronto Star and Toronto Life magazine.

His son Adam Vaughan, a former CBC Television journalist, succeeded him as Citytv political specialist and is now Toronto City Councillor for Trinity-Spadina. His daughter Annabel Vaughan is an architect in Vancouver and another daughter, Polly, is the Senior Editor at another CHUM television station, A-Channel Vancouver Island. He has three other children; Thomas, Sam and Jenny.