Biography: Madhuri Azad is a licensed Ontario lawyer and a community volunteer. She is also the Ward 20 representative of the Parent Involvement Advisory Committee within the Toronto District School Board, and a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association.

Platform: Azad says her campaign is about “building a safer, stronger, and more connected Ward 22.” Her campaign website lists cost of living, transit, small businesses, affordable housing and safe communities as her priorities.

Biography: Bill Chan is a former police officer. His website says he worked with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) for nearly 15 years. He also says he was the executive director of what’s now called The Cross Cultural Community Services Association, an organization that helps newcomers to Canada settle in the GTA. He is listed as the president of the ForPeople Community Support Association, a nonprofit that provides services to the Chinese community in Canada.

Chan is currently endorsed by David Lowe, president of the International Police Association – Canada Section’s northern Ontario chapter and Dave McCormack, a retired superintendent of TPS.

Platform: Chan’s campaign website lists six priorities: communication, housing, accessibility, neighbourhood, growth, and environment.

Biography: Jackson Ho is a cameraman for TFO, an educational channel in French. Ho’s LinkedIn says he’s also the founder of an upholstery company specializing in marine vessels.

Platform: In an Instagram post, Ho says his campaign is about “safer streets, better transit, thriving local businesses, and a City Hall that listens to residents.” He wants to see more investment in the suburbs of Toronto, better regulation of e-bikes and scooters, more affordable housing units created out of existing housing stock, and prioritizing the Sheppard subway extension. He wants more community engagement from police to improve trust.

Biography: Serge Khatchadourian is the owner and lead technician of Sterling Auto Centre, a car repair shop that has been in Scarborough for decades. In 2021 he ran for the Ward 22 Councillor seat during the by-election, and subsequently ran for the same seat in 2022, coming in fifth place out of six candidates. During the election campaign season he told the Scarborough Mirror that more police should be involved and should show up for the “small stuff.”

Platform: Khatchadourian’s campaign website lists safety, improving transit and its infrastructure, affordable housing, and investing in youth and senior programs as his priorities.

Biography: Rakhee Kotecha is a real estate agent, and, according to LinkedIn, a support manager at Canada Post. She also cites a decade of experience on her condo board.

Platform: On Kotecha’s campaign website, she says she prioritizes reliable transit, safer streets, growing infrastructure, and responsible public spending.

Biography: Little information is available online about Aaron Lal. In June 2022, he spoke to Scarborough Community Council criticizing the city’s plans to demolish rental housing on Silver Springs Boulevard to build rental buildings and town houses, saying the city didn’t adequately consult with the residents, and that local trees and wildlife would be affected. At the time, he said he and the community would want the city to reduce the maximum building heights from 22 to 10-12 storeys, and to preserve the existing trees. City council approved the development plans in July 2022.

Lal has also advocated to “speed up” construction of the Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre.

Platform: On Facebook, Lal says he will provide transparency on what’s happening in Ward 22, and advocate for fairer housing conditions.

Biography: Dan Lovell says he’s a teacher at Bur Oak Secondary School in Markham and a member of the teaching trade union the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. In 2025 he ran as the NDP candidate for the same ward during the federal election, placing last out of three candidates.

Lovell is currently endorsed by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, and former NDP MPP David Warner.

Platform: If elected, Lovell says he will freeze property taxes, make the TTC free for youth and seniors, create a public grocery chain to make groceries more affordable, and build public and affordable housing. He also says he would push city council to restore the Bridletown Neighbourhood Centre, while posting quarterly updates to keep residents informed.

When it comes to snow clearance, Lovell says he would advocate to cancel “shoddy private contracts” and hire city employees to remove snow on sidewalks.

Lovell says bike lanes need to be “separated from traffic” to ensure safety for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers.

On his campaign website, Lovell also says he would eliminate Toronto’s “bubble zone” bylaw that prohibits certain demonstrations within 50 metres of places of worship, school, and daycare centres. He describes the bylaw as a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

He’s also a proponent for reducing the city’s police budget and reallocating funds to supportive housing systems, afterschool, youth and job programs, which he believes would prevent crime.

Biography: Nick Mantas, a former staffer for councillor Jim Karygiannis, was first elected in a 2021 by-election after Karygiannis was removed from office for violating spending rules in his 2018 election campaign. Mantas was re-elected in 2022 with nearly 50% of the vote. He had previously worked as a Senate policy advisor.

On Council, Mantas was briefly on the TTC board; he currently sits on the Economic and Community Development Committee and the boards of the Toronto Zoo and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.

Mantas has generally been in favour of densification and affordable housing motions, although he voted against permitting mid-rises on streets designated as Avenues. He voted against establishing rooming house regulations and grants for rooming house renovations to bring them up to code. He was one of the few councillors to vote against objecting to the province’s plan to remove bike lanes, and the only councillor to vote against reimbursing the churches and community groups who stepped up to temporarily house refugee claimants turned away from City shelters.

In 2023, he racked up over $16,000 in expenses for a trip to a sustainable cities conference in Torino, Italy; Council eventually voted to reimburse him. In 2024, he successfully moved to declare December “Christian Heritage Month.” He also successfully put forward a motion to identify the steps necessary to deal with the City’s tree maintenance backlog.

Mantas is endorsed by Jean Yip and Aris Babikian, respectively the current MP and MPP for Scarborough—Agincourt.

Platform: Mantas has not released a detailed policy platform at the time of publication. On his website, he mentions safer neighbourhoods, better parks, and more opportunities for youth.

Biography: Little information is available online about Donny Morgan. He says he is a small business owner. In 2022 and 2025, Morgan ran for provincial parliament as part of the Ontario party, a party formed to be further right than the Progressive Conservatives.

Platform: Morgan says he would donate the equivalent of $33,000 of his salary to monthly community food drives. The number comes from the councillor salary increase city council approved in 2025.

He wants to tackle community safety through improved preventative infrastructure, and take a compassion-driven approach to homelessness.

Morgan also says he supports affordable housing and tenant protection, including a rent freeze for two to three years. On his campaign website, he says he’s a proponent for reliable transit, supporting local businesses, and safe neighbourhoods.

In an Instagram post, Morgan says studies and consultations need to be done before building more bike lanes.

Biography: Sindia Vijayarajan is an Osgoode Hall law school graduate and says on her website that she has worked as an executive legal consultant. As a student, she worked on research about the challenges facing LGBTQ+ communities in China, and won a student recognition award from the South Asian Bar Association.

Platform: Vijayarajan says she wants to improve housing affordability by creating more rent-to-own options and voting against property tax increases, as well as reducing the threshold value of a ‘luxury’ home taxed by the city from $3 million to $2.5 million. She proposes a shelter for unhoused people in the ward, but says its location will be decided in consultation with the public. She wants to restructure the TTC’s spending, and advocate for an extension of the Sheppard subway line into the ward. She wants to hire more fare inspectors “that are also qualified to serve as security guards” on transit. She also proposes repurposing the DVP bus lane as a high-occupancy vehicle lane to improve congestion, and wants to permanently remove the bike lanes in Scarborough-Agincourt.

Vijayarajan says she believes in defunding the police but also wants them to play “an active role” in the community. She proposes this take place through a mandatory Auxiliary Officer volunteer program and that funding for police spending be rerouted to community spaces and locally-owned grocery stores.

She proposes extended library hours and expanded flood mitigation programs run by the city.

Biography: Carey de Pass is a licensed paralegal that works at dePass Rajan Paralegal Solutions, a firm created by him and Sarah Rajan. His LinkedIn also says he previously worked as an associate paralegal at Invictus Legal LLP.

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

Biography: Christopher Mammoliti was a national patient programs manager at the Colorectal Cancer Resource & Action Network. He was elected as the old Ward 4’s (Humber River-Black Creek) TDSB trustee in 2018 and TDSB vice-chair in 2020.

In 2022, Mammoliti ran for city councillor in Ward 7 Humber River-Black Creek and came in second place out of three candidates, losing to Anthony Perruzza.

Mammoliti is the son of the late Giorgio Mammoliti, a controversial city councillor who had served in office since before Toronto’s amalgamation.

He is endorsed by the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, and by Toronto Education Workers/Local 4400, a division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Platform: Mammoliti’s platform focuses on communicating with parents, caregivers and students, advocating for smaller class sizes, and building student career pathways which include skilled trades. He wants to make schools more community-oriented and work with parents.

Biography: Bill Wu is a badminton coach at the Toronto Chinese Sports Club for children and youth. His website says he has a background in electrical engineering.

Wu previously ran for councillor in Ward 22 in the 2021 by-election and again in the 2022 municipal election, when he came in second out of six candidates, losing to Nick Mantas.

Platform: Wu’s platform focuses on smaller class sizes, incorporating mental health and after-school programs, and better school infrastructure. He wants fairer pay and clearer pathways to full-time work for substitute teachers. He also mentions student safety, both individually and online, through anti-bullying, mental health, and emergency preparedness efforts.

Biography: Sonny Yeung has described himself as a project manager with a background in commerce and finance.

Yeung is a perennial candidate for municipal office. Most recently, he ran for TDSB trustee in Ward 11—Don Valley West during the 2025 by-election, coming in sixth out of 10 candidates.

Before that, he ran in 2003, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 municipal elections and 2016 and 2012 by-elections. Yeung endorsed the now-councillor Neethan Shan during the Scarborough-Rouge Park by-election in 2025.

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

Biography: Little information is available online about Celine DiNova. In 2022, DiNova ran for TCDSB trustee in Ward 11, coming in second out of four candidates. In a profile submitted to Beach Metro Community News during that campaign, DiNova said she is a retired secondary school teacher.

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

Biography: Marissa Largo is a graduate program director and associate professor at York University. Her research focuses on the intersections of community engagement, race, gender, and Asian diasporic art, including Filipinx Canadian artists. Largo says that she was a Catholic secondary school art and religion teacher prior to becoming an academic.

Platform: Largo’s platform includes strengthening academic achievements and mental health support, making the use of public resources more transparent, advocating for accessible and safe school facilities, and fighting for equitable funding for Catholic schools. Largo also says that she wants to make sure that the TCDSB stays focused on “people by strengthening the uniquely human qualities of creativity, critical thinking, ethical judgement, and personal connection” in the face of AI.

Biography: According to his website, Gregory Rodriguez describes himself as a “close protection specialist and security consultant” licensed by the province, though Ontario’s public registry lists his security guard licence as expired. He also says that he’s volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross, the Out of the Cold program at St. Brigid’s, St. John Ambulance, and the Toronto Police.

On Instagram, Rodriguez has posted in support of Daniel Tate and far-right advocacy group IntegrityTO, and has posted in support of far-right personality Charlie Kirk. He has also previously likened Toronto to Sodom and Gomorrah and Gotham City. On his website, Rodriguez posted a letter about the provincial supervision of TCDSB, saying it should serve as a “wake-up call” that “progressive political influences” and “financial mismanagement” led to provincial intervention.

Rodriguez ran for TDSB trustee in Ward 20 in 2018, finishing third out of four candidates, and for TCDSB trustee in Ward 3 in 2022, losing to incumbent Ida Li Preti. In 2025, he ran for city councillor in Ward 25 – Scarborough-Rouge Park, finishing 18th out of 20.

Platform: On his website, Rodriguez says that he would ensure financial accountability, keep Christ at the centre of board policies, repair old schools, and be accessible to his constituents.

Biography: Benoit Fortin is the incumbent trustee for Conseil scolaire Viamonde Ward 2 – Toronto Est, having held the role since 2018. He is running unopposed for the Viamonde ward, and is therefore elected by acclamation. He was previously elected by acclamation in 2022.

Fortin is also a founding member of SkyPower, a global solar energy company, where he is vice president of development for Africa and India. He is listed as a board director of L’Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l’Ontario and the chair of the Conseil scolaire Viamonde.

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

Biography: Rhea Dechaine was elected trustee for Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir Ward 4 in 2023. Before that, she spent eight years on the parent council at Georges-Étienne-Cartier elementary, including four as co-president. Dechaine says she has 10 years of experience in finance, has organized numerous community events, and attended a MonAvenir school herself.

Platform: Dechaine says she has helped make “significant progress” on the project to bring a French-language Catholic high school to east Toronto, and will keep working on it if re-elected. She commits to listening to parents before making decisions, supporting families as they navigate the school system, and defends the French-language Catholic school system. Dechaine emphasises that students need more than academic achievement to succeed, and wants to make schools places where all students can feel “safe, welcomed, respected, and supported.”

Biography: Little information is available online about Clescadine Gustave. In a candidate survey conducted by Toronto Public Library in French and machine translated to English, Gustave said she has children who have attended MonAvenir schools.

Platform: Gustave said in the library survey that her first priority as a trustee would be to promote the Catholic faith within schools and to ensure students start and end each day with prayer. To fight bullying and discrimination, Gustave said schools need better training for principals and staff. She supports class size caps, saying classrooms should have one teacher for every 21 students, or one teacher and one teaching assistant for every 27 students.

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

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