Colin Vaughan (30 June 1931 – 1 January 2000) was an Australian-born Canadian television journalist, architect, urban activist and alderman serving the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[1] His son Adam Vaughan, a former CBC Television journalist, succeeded him as Citytv's political specialist and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spadina—Fort York.
In the late 1960s, he helped lead the Stop Spadina movement, a citizens' group opposed to inner city expressways in Toronto.
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.
[2] 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.