Background
His father, Colin Vaughan, was a noted architect, television journalist and former city councillor, who preceded Adam as Citytv"s political reporter until his death in 2000.
His father, Colin Vaughan, was a noted architect, television journalist and former city councillor, who preceded Adam as Citytv"s political reporter until his death in 2000.
He is currently the Member of Parliament for Spadina—Fort York, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs. From 2006 to 2014 he was a Toronto city councillor who represented Ward 20 Trinity—Spadina. Prior to his career in politics he was a radio and television journalist.
He also has a daughter (Mimi) from a previous relationship with journalist Suhana Meharchand.
Adam Vaughan worked at Ryerson University radio station CKLN from 1982 to 1987, and was manager of the station from 1985 to 1987. He joined Citytv in 1987 as a producer of CityWise.
He left in 1989 to join the board of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. In 1990, he joined Metro Morning on CBL as a segment producer.
He subsequently joined CBLT in 1994, covering City Hall as a municipal reporter, producer, and director
Vaughan has covered Toronto Police Service, Toronto City Hall, Queen"s Park and Parliament Hill in his career.He returned to the Citytv team in 2000. Vaughan has written for Toronto Life magazine and the Toronto Star. Before becoming a journalist, Adam Vaughan was a cartoonist for Books in Canada, Quill and Quire, Canadian Forum and several other publications.
After Marilyn Bornstein, the wife of the then mayor of Toronto Mel Lastman, was caught shoplifting from an Eaton"s store in Toronto, the mayor threatened to kill Vaughan unless he stopped reporting on his family.
Vaughan ran in Trinity—Spadina - Ward 20 in the 2006 municipal election. After the 2010 mayoral election, Vaughan was an outspoken critic of then-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Additionally he sat on the city"s Heritage Board, and the city"s Preservation Board. In 2014, he ran as the Liberal candidate in a federal by-election following New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Olivia Chow"s resignation.
Vaughan resigned his city council seat on May 13, 2014, several days after the Trinity—Spadina by-election was called.
He defeated NDP candidate Joe Cressy by 6,745 votes. In the October 2015 federal election, Vaughan ran in Spadina—Fort York, essentially a reconfigured version of his old riding. Once the election was called, Vaughan initially trailed Chow in public opinion polls.
However, on election day, in part due to a massive surge of Liberal support in Toronto, he defeated Chow convincingly, taking 54.5% of the vote to Chow"s 27.4%.
On December 2, 2015, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs. Federal elections
Municipal elections.
The seat had been vacated by Olivia Chow who left the city for federal politics. He served as the party"s critic for urban affairs and housing.
He is a Liberal member of the House of Commons in the federal government who was elected in a by-election on June 30, 2014. As a member of City Council Vaughan sat on the Planning and Growth Management Committee, the Toronto Arts Council, Artscape Board, the Board of Trustees for the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Harbourfront Centre Board.