Education
Born in Australia, Vaughan studied architecture in Sydney and moved to Montreal, Canada in the 1950s.
Born in Australia, Vaughan studied architecture in Sydney and moved to Montreal, Canada in the 1950s.
He was best known as the political specialist for the Toronto television station Citytv from 1977 until his death. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 68. In the late "60s he helped lead the Stop Spadina movement, a citizens" group opposed to inner city expressways in Toronto.
In the 1972 civic election 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. After five years on city council, Vaughan left in 1977 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.