Biography: Chris Fonseca has been the councillor for Ward 3 since 2010. She says she previously ran her own business in the health and wellness sector and worked with non-profit organizations. As councillor, Fonseca moved to waive development charges for a nursery school looking to more than double its preschool spaces; brought a successful motion to sign Mississauga onto an international fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; raised concerns about children riding e-scooters; and spoke in support of “reassociating” Duke of York Boulevard, which saw the city formally disassociate the street’s name from former U.K. prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor instead of renaming the street.

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Biography: Arshad Hashmi says he is the founder and CEO of Meca Tech Engineering, an engineering consulting firm. He says he previously taught information technology (IT) at a training institute in Lahore, Pakistan.

Platform: Hashmi lists his policy priorities as infrastructure, “smart growth,” affordable housing, fiscal responsibility and lower taxes, and better roads.

Biography: Mendi Kabashi says on LinkedIn that she is a property manager at Wilson Blanchard Management, a subsidiary of American property management company Associa. She also says she was president of a condo board for four years. She says she has a military training background and also worked as a legal advisor to the Albanian Ministry of Defence from 2012 to 2014, when it was decommissioning Communist-era stockpiles of ammunition.

Platform: Kabashi told Modern Mississauga that her priorities are improving public safety through better collaboration between police, schools, and businesses, and “balancing prevention with effective enforcement.” She wants to focus on fiscal efficiency, provide residents with clear timelines for construction projects, and create better parks and public spaces. Investing in infrastructure is the most important budget item for Mississauga, Kabashi says.

Biography: Kim Pines is the president of a translation business. She was also the treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Canadian Language Industry Association. Pines is also a director of the Rockwood Residents’ Association, and a member of the Applewood Hills & Heights Residents’ Association. The Rockwood Residents’ Association is opposed to a potential cluster of high-rise developments on Ponytail Drive and Rathburn Road East; and takes the position that Mississauga is paying too much for Peel Region’s services, putting pressure on property taxpayers. Pines’ website references the Bloor Street redesign as a “turning point for many residents,” likely referring to the fact that about 3,500 residents signed a petition against reducing traffic lanes to add bike lanes to Bloor Street. She says she’s appeared at Mississauga City Council and the Region of Peel to talk about “unchecked development,” traffic congestion, rising taxes, and other issues.

Platform: Pines says she will consult residents before making decisions, calling the Bloor Street redesign “the most documented consultation failure in Ward 3’s recent history”. She wants to balance new development with infrastructure readiness and quality of life for existing residents, push for an auditor general to review city spending, and advocate for more police presence in “hotspots” for crime.

Biography: Little information is available online about Stjepan Vukovic. On his website, he describes himself as a “local business owner.”

Platform: Vukovic lists his priorities for councillor as freezing property taxes, advocating for a more balanced split of the Peel Police budget between Mississauga and Brampton, and improving street safety and infrastructure.

Biography: No information could be found online about this candidate at the time of publishing.

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Biography: Kashaf Paracha is an administrative assistant with Mississauga Community Legal Services; she previously worked in the office of the Ontario PC caucus at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, according to her LinkedIn. She says she has attended Peel District School Board schools herself, and has a sibling currently attending one of the board’s schools.

Platform: Paracha lists her priorities as safe, focused classrooms, digital safety, and special education funding. She wants to cap class sizes, bridge language barriers, and empower diverse communities. If elected, she promises to address staffing shortages among ancillary staff, including educational assistants, child and youth workers, and mental health councillors. She also says she wants to update board policies to define online abuse and establish safe ways for students to report this behaviour.

Biography: Little information is available online about Shivakumar Sethumadhavan. He ran for the position of trustee in Wards 1 and 7 in 2022, placing last out of 11 candidates. At the time, in a survey for Mississauga News, Sethumadhavan said that he is a sales manager.

Platform: In an Instagram post, Sethumadhavan promises to create safer schools, stronger funding, and “accessible communication channels” if elected.

Biography: Mario Pascucci is the long-term incumbent Dufferin-Peel Catholic board trustee for Wards 1 and 3. He is running unopposed in the ward this election season, and is therefore elected by acclamation. He was first elected to the board in 1978, according to the Brampton Guardian, and has held the trustee role for more than 40 years. Though he lost in the 1997 election, Pascucci acclaimed the seat during the 2000 election, as there were no other opponents running. He has since won the next six elections.

Pascucci has also worked as a coordinator and professor at George Brown’s School of Management.

In 2024, Pascucci voted in favour of a failed motion to allow additional flags, like the Pride flag, at DPCDSB schools during particular observances, but then seven months later, he voted the opposite, to ban additional flags from being displayed inside schools. In 2025, Pascucci voted against having a Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation flag to fly during the month of June and an “Every Child Matters” flag to fly on Sept. 30.

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Biography: Pierre Gregory has been a trustee for Conseil scolaire Viamonde since 2022, representing Hamilton-Wentworth, Halton, and Brant. He won by acclamation because he ran unopposed in that election.

Gregory has nearly 30 years of experience in education, including as a teacher at a French-language high school. He has previously worked at the Ministry of Education as part of the unit responsible for curriculum development in French-language schools in Ontario. As trustee, Gregory sat on the board’s Parents’ Participation Committee.

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Biography: Little information is available online about Mahmad Neezam Chutoo. On LinkedIn, he says he works in bilingual customer service at Aimia, a Toronto-based investment holding company.

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Biography: Jennifer Green Frank is running unopposed and therefore has already been elected by acclamation at the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. She is a registered immigration consultant with the immigration consulting firm Keith C.A. Frank & Associates. Green Frank is a citizen member of Mississauga’s Governance Committee and on the faculty at Ashton College, an online career college.

Platform: This candidate does not have a platform available online at the time of publication.