Biography: Aruna Anand is an insurance advisor, and the wife of Progressive Conservative MPP Deepak Anand who represents the riding of Mississauga-Malton. She is the founder of the Fuelling Healthy Minds program, which gives corporations the opportunity to fund meals for students at local schools. She says the program has served 550,000 meals since it began in 2019.

Platform: Anand’s platform includes improving street safety by adding lighting and holding quarterly “community safety meetings”, supporting small businesses through “quarterly business roundtables”, and introducing a “case-management system” for resident inquiries about city services. She also mentions wanting more realtime transit data and better enforcement of neighbourhood cleanliness standards.

Biography: Little information is available online about Raghavan Babu Bhogaiah. His website says he has worked in accounting for 17 years and has experience designing “complex banking products.”

Platform: Bhogaiah’s platform includes safer streets, bylaw enforcement, and creating pathways for the ward’s residents to have their concerns heard.

Biography: Ismail Bawa is a police constable who has served in Toronto and Peel. Before joining the force, he says he worked in a “public-facing” capacity for institutions including Calgary Transit, the CN Tower, and the Toronto Transit Commission. He has received commendations from the Peel police and from the Rotary Club of Scarborough.

Platform: Bawa’s platform includes improving transit, investing in youth through recreation and mentorship programs, and advocating for a hospital and university within Ward 5. He wants to improve safety in the ward, and create a fairer deal for the local community when it comes to funds generated by Pearson airport. He proposes expanding bus services and shared traffic infrastructure, and reduce red tape for housing development and small businesses.

Biography: Little information is available online about Jamie Dookie. According to his LinkedIn, he worked in procurement for CAMH and Toronto Grace Health Centre. A voter information profile he submitted for his 2024 mayoral run says he is a consultant with the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement.

He has previously run in a number of local elections, including for council in 2000, 2006, 2010, 2011, and 2014 – usually in Ward 10. He also ran for mayor in the 2024 mayoral by-election.

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

Biography: Natalie Hart is the incumbent councillor for Ward 5. She was first elected in the 2024 by-election, when Carolyn Parrish resigned the seat to run for mayor. Prior to joining council, Hart was the General Manager for the Malton BIA, where she still sits on the board. She was also a member of More Homes Mississauga, an advocacy group aimed at increasing the city’s housing stock, and has spoken in favour of missing-middle housing such as fourplexes. She currently sits on a number of committees including the Stormwater Advisory Committee and the Budget Committee.

Last year, she put forward a motion to introduce the Ward 5 Neighbourhood Standards Program, a pilot project to address property standards, parking, and noise complaints in the ward. The program has since led to the issuing of more than 22,000 parking tickets, though reception has been mixed with some in the community saying they have seen little improvement.

Platform: If re-elected, Hart says her priorities will be regulating rooming houses, prioritizing bus rapid transit, and improving neighbourhood safety.

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

Platform: On his Instagram, Mehta says he will advocate for affordable housing and family support, community safety, and “enhancing parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities.”

Biography: Little information is available online about Michael Anthony Perretta. He is a chartered professional accountant and is listed as an owner of a Century 21 real estate brokerage based in Mississauga. He was a professor at Sheridan College, and his LinkedIn says he also worked as a professor at the University of Waterloo.

Platform: In a LinkedIn post, he says “the main issues are: reducing crime, improving services, affordable housing, improving government services, efficient use of resources and, of course, STOP tax increases!”

Biography: Little information is available online about Rosemarie Sanchez Sanchez. Her LinkedIn describes her as a business and marketing coach, and the founder of Breakthrough Rose Productions. She is also a director at Canada Latina Pageants, which crowns a Miss Canada Latina and a Miss Teen Canada Latina. She previously ran for Ward 5 in the 2024 Mississauga by-election.

Platform: Sanchez’s platform mentions listening to residents, supporting local businesses, and creating opportunities. On Facebook, she mentions walkability and transit development, and school safety.

Biography: Danny Singh has worked in a number of government relations roles, including for the CEE Centre for Young Black Professionals and most recently at the Ministry for Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement. His LinkedIn says he was previously the director of operations for Carolyn Parrish’s Ward 5 office from 2014 to 2022, and was campaign manager for her re-election to council that year. After Parrish left to run for mayor in 2024, Singh ran in the by-election for Ward 5, losing to Natalie Hart.

On Oct. 7, 2026, the Toronto Star reported that Peel Police are investigating Singh following a complaint filed by mayoral candidate Bonnie Crombie regarding alleged “threats received on social media.” Singh “denies any wrongdoing.” The paper also reported that Singh was sent cease-and-desist letters by councillors Natalie Hart and Alvin Tedjo in September 2025 following comments made on social media. (Updated: Oct. 20, 2026)

Platform: Singh has several community endorsements available on his Instagram, but does not appear to have a platform at time of publishing.

Biography: Little information is available online about Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal. His website says he is an entrepreneur, and “through his work with the Ford government, he has helped secure major provincial investments for Mississauga.” He previously ran for office in Ward 9 and 10 in Brampton in 2006, coming fourth of six.

Platform: Dhaliwal’s platform includes freezing property taxes and councillor office budgets, creating a “property standards enforcement unit” for things like overgrown lawns and noise, and cracking down on illegal rooming houses. He wants more visible police patrols and faster response times.

Biography: Susan Benjamin has been the trustee for Ward 5 since 2018. Benjamin is a former special education teacher with the Peel District School Board (PDSB), and previously worked as a long-term occasional teacher with the Dufferin Peel Catholic School Board. As reported by The Pointer, Benjamin sent an email to PDSB staff in which she was critical of the board’s attempts to deal with anti-Black racism. She said the endeavors resulted in a “loss of value know-how and expertise” at the board. In 2021, she was one of the signatories on a letter asking for the province to remove the supervisor put in charge during the temporary takeover of the PDSB following findings of a systemic culture of anti-Black racism. She argued at the time that the Ontario government was sidelining PDSB trustees. (The 2020 takeover of the PDSB is unrelated to the province’s current supervision of this board and others.)

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

Biography: On his campaign website, Mohamed Elghamry says that he worked in financial accounting for 25 years.

Platform: Elghamry says his priorities are putting Canadian values first, giving voice to the Muslim community, and prioritizing student safety and equal resources. He also mentions the importance of financial accountability. He wants to create a board-wide anti-Islamophobia policy, recognize Islamic holidays, bring halal options into school cafeterias, provide mental health support to students, and make sure each dollar spent by the board is creating value.

Biography: Avtar Ghotra says he’s an active community advocate, and has previously worked as an instructor in business and economics. According to his LinkedIn profile, he completed the College Training Program at George Brown College. Ghotra previously ran for the Peel District School Board’s Ward 5 in 2022, coming fourth of six; notably, at the time, he wanted to review the sex-ed curriculum with parental input and revise it to be “age appropriate,” he said.

Platform: In a Facebook post, Ghotra says he wants to protect public education and make sure the voices of people in Mississauga-Malton aren’t being sidelined at Queen’s Park. He says he will prioritize student success, safety, representing parents, and directing the board’s resources directly to students.

Biography: Little information is available online about Marina Qureshi. On LinkedIn, someone with the same name lists their job as director of internal audit at Walmart Canada. Qureshi ran for city council in Ward 5 in 2018, coming fifth out of six candidates. At the time, Qureshi said that she had worked in post-secondary education for over three years.

Platform: Qureshi lists her priorities as safer schools, more mental health supports, inclusive education, and better resources. She says she will push for traffic-calming measures around schools, better lighting on the routes kids use to walk to school, in-school mental-health counsellors, and funding determined by specific needs.

Biography: Little information about Sabir Masih is available online. According to Sabir Masih’s LinkedIn, he is an auditor at the Holiday Inn Express and a self-employed real estate agent. He is listed on the anti-abortion website Campaign Life Coalition as being “pro-life and pro-family.” According to a survey submitted to the Coalition, Masih will oppose sex-ed programs that are “contrary to Church teaching,” oppose flying the “Gay Pride flag at Catholic schools” and board offices, and does not believe that women should have access to abortion.

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

Biography: Little information about Domenica Laura Simone is available online. According to the candidate’s LinkedIn, she works as a contribution control analyst at the Laborers’ International Union of North America. In 2022, she ran for city councillor in Ward 5, coming third out of four candidates.

Platform: According to an Instagram post, Simone will prioritize students, inform parents about board decisions, protect Catholic values, and build “stronger, safer schools.”

Biography: Thomas Thomas is the incumbent trustee for Ward 5. He is also chair of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. He has held office since 2006. In 2022, he ran unopposed in the ward and won his seat by acclamation. In 2025, while serving as vice chair of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic board, he voted against flying the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation flag during the month of June and the “Every Child Matters” flag on Sept. 30. He has also opposed changes to the board’s flag policies that would have permitted additional flags, including the Pride flag, to be flown at the board’s schools.

Platform: On Thomas’ website, he mentions “keeping gospel values and Catholic identity at the heart of education.” He wants to strengthen academic achievement among students, and supports “safe, caring and respectful schools for every student.” He also lists communicating with parents and championing responsible decision-making.

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.

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

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.

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

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.