Toronto City Council is the governing body of the municipal government of Toronto,Ontario. Meeting at Toronto City Hall,it comprises 25 city councillors and the mayor of Toronto. The current term began on November 15,2022.
Raymond Sung Joon Cho is a Canadian politician who has served as the Ontario minister of seniors and accessibility since June 29,2018. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party,Cho has sat as a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) since 2016. He currently represents Scarborough North,and is the Legislative Assembly's oldest sitting MPP. Cho's over 30-year long political career began in 1991 when he was first elected to the Metro Toronto Council. Following amalgamation in 1998,Cho ran for Toronto City Council,where he re-elected eight times until resigning in 2016 following a successful run for Scarborough—Rouge River in a provincial by-election. Prior to entering politics,Cho worked as a social worker.
Lorenzo Berardinetti is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the Toronto riding of Scarborough Southwest.
Michael Thompson is a Canadian politician who has been a Toronto city councillor since 2003. He currently represents Ward 21 Scarborough Centre.
Maria Augimeri is a Canadian politician. From 1985 to 2018,she served as a local politician in Toronto,holding office as a school board trustee,and as a council member in North York,Metropolitan Toronto,and on Toronto City Council. In 2019,Augimeri stood as the New Democratic candidate for the riding of Humber River-Black Creek.
Glenn De Baeremaeker is a former city councillor in Toronto,Ontario,Canada,who represented Ward 38,one of the two former Scarborough Centre wards from 2003-2018. The son of working-class parents,he has a master's degree in international development and spent six months in Ethiopia at the height of the 1980s famine.
Michael Anthony Del Grande is a Canadian politician. Elected in 2003,he is a former Toronto city councillor,representing Scarborough—Agincourt. He announced in February 2014 that he would not run for re-election,and instead ran for election in 2014 to the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
John L. Parker is a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York East from 1995 to 1999. From 2006 to 2014 he was a Toronto city councillor for Ward 26,which includes the neighbourhoods of Leaside and Flemingdon Park. From 2010 to 2014 he was appointed as Deputy Speaker.
Paul Ainslie is a city councillor in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. In 2006,he was appointed as an interim councillor in ward 41,and was then elected as the councillor for Ward 43 in Scarborough East. On October 22,2018 he was elected as Councillor for Ward 24 Scarborough-Guildwood.
Ronald Moeser was a Canadian politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a city councillor for Ward 44 in Scarborough from 1988 to 1997 and then a councillor for the amalgamated city of Toronto from 1998 to 2003 and then 2006 until his death in 2017.
The 2010 Toronto municipal election was held on October 25,2010 to elect a mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. In addition,school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board,Toronto Catholic District School Board,Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario. Candidate registration opened on January 4,2010 and ended on September 10. Advance polls were open October 5,6,7,8 and 12,13,16 and 17.
Kristyn Wong-Tam is a Canadian politician who has represented Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2022 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).
Michelle Holland,is a Canadian politician,who was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2010 city council election,defeating Adrian Heaps in Ward 35.
Neethan Shanmugarajah (Neethan Shan) (Tamil:நீதன்சண்முகராஜா,romanized: NītaṉCaṇmukarājā;born December 24,1978),is a Canadian politician who represented Ward 42 Scarborough—Rouge River on Toronto City Council from February 2017 to November 2018. Shan was the first Tamil Canadian to sit on Toronto's City Council. Shan is currently the Chair of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Shan was elected to the TDSB in 2016 and again in 2022. Shan has sought public office 13 times since 2003;8 of which were municipally and provincially,5. He won 4 times:YRDSB Trustee in 2006,TDSB Trustee in 2016,Toronto City Councillor in 2017 and TDSB Trustee in 2022.
Ward 22 Scarborough—Agincourt is a municipal ward in the Scarborough section of Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It's represented on Toronto City Council by Nick Mantas. It covers the area of the City of Toronto bounded by Steeles Avenue East to the north,Highway 401 to the south,Victoria Park Avenue to the west,and Midland Avenue to the east. It contains the neighbourhoods of L'Amoreaux,Tam O'Shanter and part of Agincourt.
The 2022 Toronto municipal election was held on October 24,2022,to elect the mayor and 25 city councillors in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. In addition,school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board,Toronto Catholic District School Board,Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir. The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario.
Ward 15 Don Valley West is a municipal electoral division in Toronto,Ontario that has been represented in the Toronto City Council since the 2018 municipal election. It was last contested in a by-election in 2024,with Rachel Chernos Lin elected to succeed Jaye Robinson as the councillor for the 2022–2026 term.
Jamaal Michael Anthony Myers is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) since August 11,2023. Myers has represented Ward 23 Scarborough North on Toronto City Council since November 15,2022. Before entering politics,he worked as a corporate lawyer.
The 2022–2026 Toronto City Council term is the present term of Toronto City Council. It initially consisted of members elected in the 2022 municipal election held on October 24. Following the election,voters returned city councillors in the city's 25 wards as well as the mayor of Toronto,who is elected city-wide. The city uses a first-past-the-post system to elect all positions.
Ward 20 Scarborough Southwest is a municipal ward in the Scarborough section of Toronto,Ontario,Canada represented by Parthi Kandavel who won the by-election on November 30,2023. The seat was temporarily vacant between July 26,2023 and November 30,2023 following the resignation of Gary Crawford to run in the 2023 Scarborough—Guildwood provincial by-election. It covers the area of the City of Toronto bounded by Eglinton Avenue East to the north,Lake Ontario to the south,Victoria Park Avenue to the west,and Markham Road to the east. It contains the neighbourhoods of Birch Cliff,Birch Cliff Heights,Clairlea,Cliffcrest,Cliffside,Fallingbrook,Hunt Club,Oakridge,Scarborough Junction,and the western half of Scarborough Village.
