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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Josh Rachlis |
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Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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Unknown |
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Still Living
(2024 years) |
| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | IndyGeorgia
Jul 27, 2023 08:11pm |
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| Info | Josh Rachlis hates waste. You can see that when he picks up litter everywhere he goes. You can see that when he saves his workplace money by going himself to buy energy-efficient light bulbs for the hundreds of employees. And you can see that when he pores over his cell phone bill to see if he’s paying too much. As your MPP, Josh will apply this obsession with eliminating waste to cleaning up any pollution he finds in Eglinton-Lawrence and cleaning up any waste of tax dollars he finds at Queen’s Park.
Josh learned to appreciate the beauty of all things green thanks to an idyllic youth spent in Eglinton-Lawrence: Growing up with a lush green backyard on Park Hill Road, attending tree-lined John Fisher Public School, getting his Jewish education at vine-covered Holy Blossom Temple and earning his Honours B.A. in Psychology just blocks from the riding amongst the gardens of Glendon College.
Canadians recently saw this love of the environment manifested in his “Love Song For Elizabeth May” that went viral during the federal election and was featured on every major Canadian media outlet, including CTV News and CBC Radio. It’s part of the eco-comedy Josh performs in order to educate people about eco issues in an entertaining way, such as an eco hip-hop music video he created as an ode to Laurie David, producer of An Inconvenient Truth. The video has earned kudos from everyone from Ed Begley Jr. to David Suzuki, and Laurie herself recently tweeted that it “will inspire a whole new green revolution with Josh leading the way.”
Josh also brings his comedy and inclusiveness to the community, having hosted events like Night For Nature at an Etobicoke high school and an Arab-Jewish Peace Concert in Montreal. He also properly sorts the litter and recycling in TTC stations while waiting for the subway and educates idlers about the harm they’re doing to the air. His environmental work has been profiled in papers like The Toronto Star, National Post and Ottawa Citizen.
By day, he’s an award-winning Advertising Copywriter, having created work like the If Life Were Like That campaign for Visa. In his spare time, he's an actor, cartoonist, singer/songwriter, comedian, improviser, radio host, director, MC, screenwriter and more. Canadians can be forgiven for thinking he’s 5 centimeters tall, as he starred by client request in two of his own commercials as the angry Scottish Mini Man for Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Minis. Americans know him as the voice of the claymation Dan The Chameleon for Hubba Bubba Max, animated by Oscar-winning Aardman Animation. His illustrations and comedic columns have appeared in major newspapers. As an improviser, he was accepted into prestigious the Second City Conservatory. As a TV host, he hosted/produced 4 years of his own shows on Rogers Community Cable. Radio listeners have delighted to his talk radio hosting on Toronto's Newstalk 1010 CFRB, appearances on CBC Radio shows GO and Definitely Not The Opera, and his weekly movie reviews on CINA 1650 AM. Josh is also a screenwriter and the first draft of his first feature screenplay, won the LA-based 2009 Script Showcase. And his short film 3 Dates premiered in Hollywood at the 2010 HollyShorts, one of the world’s top 25 film festivals.
And now, Josh is eager to put his extensive energy and creativity toward making Eglinton-Lawrence an even more beautiful place to live as the district’s first Green MPP.
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