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Ward 07 — Humber River-Black Creek

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Reading this in real time: every registrant figure below — who’s filed, incumbency, candidate counts — is a snapshot as of 2026-08-14, from the City Clerk’s candidate feeds. Nominations close Friday, August 21, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. — this page re-pulls and re-stamps every registrant figure after that date. Geography, transit, development and census figures are structural facts that don’t move at nomination close and are dated separately, section by section.

Humber River-Black Creek sits in Toronto's northwest, in the old municipality of North York, bounded by the Humber River to the west, Keele Street to the east, Steeles Avenue to the north, and a jagged southern line running along Black Creek, Sheppard Avenue West, Jane Street and Highway 401. Its best-known area is Jane and Finch, long a focus of City-led neighbourhood planning — the Jane Finch Secondary Plan and Community Development Plan took legal effect in most of the area in 2025, and Toronto's newest light-rail line, Line 6 Finch West, opened along Finch Avenue West through the ward in December 2025. The ward also touches York University's western edge and includes the Black Creek Pioneer Village heritage site near Jane Street and Steeles Avenue. It is one of the city's more actively redeveloping wards: an independent development tracker counted three dozen residential and institutional projects underway or recently completed here as of late 2023, several timed to the new transit line.

The race & the 2022 baseline

2022 result: Anthony Perruzza won by 38.7 percentage points over the runner-up — a landslide, not a close call. Source: City of Toronto official 2022 election results, as_of 2026-08-16.

This ward’s own 2022 turnout was 22.09% (14,616 of 66,162 eligible electors cast a ballot) — compared to a citywide 2022 turnout of 29.7% that year. Source: City of Toronto, City Clerk’s Office, “Elections – Voter Statistics” (2022 dataset), cross-checked against the Clerk’s own 2022 Municipal Election Report.

Who’s running here in 2026 (3)

Every candidate filed in this ward as of 2026-08-16, alphabetical by surname, identical fields for every name. Bios are synthesized only from each candidate’s own published campaign material and registry facts — never from news coverage, opposition material, or this project’s own judgment (see Receipts below).

Lorna Antwi

Registered 2026-05-11 · Website: https://www.lornaantwi.com/

Lorna Antwi is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 7 (Humber River-Black Creek), in the 2026 municipal election, registered on May 11, 2026. Her campaign site describes her as a counsellor with Toronto Shelter and Support Services and a lifelong Humber River-Black Creek resident who attended local schools including Brookview Middle School. Her platform lists ten planks: affordable housing and tenant protections, community safety and mental-health supports, streets, parks, and infrastructure, youth opportunity and mentorship, small-business support, property-tax fairness for seniors and families, food security, support for families and children with disabilities, lower property taxes, and safe community spaces.

Amanda Coombs

Registered 2026-05-01 · Website: https://www.voteamandacoombs.com

Amanda Coombs is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 7 (Humber River-Black Creek), in the 2026 municipal election, registered on May 1, 2026. Her campaign site describes her as Executive Director of a non-profit providing mental-health, academic, employment, and justice-related support for youth, founder of Back 2 Basickz Youth Support Services, and a member of the Toronto Community Crisis Team. It states her focus as affordability, housing stability, community safety, and stronger community support systems, and lists commitments to creating opportunities for youth and families, advocating for mental health and community wellness, and promoting affordable and accessible community resources.

Anthony Perruzza (incumbent)

Registered 2026-07-30 · Website: https://www.anthonyperruzza.com/

Anthony Perruzza is the incumbent candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 7 (Humber River-Black Creek), in the 2026 municipal election, registered on July 30, 2026. His site functions primarily as a councillor's office-update page rather than a campaign platform; it describes his advocacy for relocating the temporary shelter at 1677 Wilson Avenue, including motions moved at Council and coordination with police and residents, and covers local items such as a net-zero community centre groundbreaking and a review of speed-camera ticketing fairness. As of August 14, 2026, no separate itemized 2026 campaign platform was found on the site.

Absence of a website, a bio, or any campaign material on this page is a fact about the public record and this project’s search on 2026-08-14 — not a judgment about any candidate’s effort, seriousness, or worth. Every candidate below gets the identical fields, the identical format, and the identical treatment, alphabetically by surname, whether incumbent or first-time, well-resourced or not.

Geography & boundaries

Legally defined (per the province's 2018 ward redistricting, reproduced on Wikipedia): the ward commences at the intersection of the city's northerly limit with Keele Street; runs south along Keele to Grandravine Drive; generally west along Grandravine to Black Creek; generally southeast along Black Creek to Sheppard Avenue West; west along Sheppard to Jane Street; south along Jane to Highway 401; west along Highway 401 to the Humber River; then generally northwest along the Humber River back to the city's northerly limit. Community council: North York. The current ward is an amalgamation of the western section of the old (pre-2018) Ward 7 York West and the eastern section of the old Ward 8 York West. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_7_Humber_River%E2%80%94Black_Creek, accessed 2026-08-14] [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8d0d-CityPlanning-Map-Ward-7.pdf (City of Toronto ward map), accessed 2026-08-14]

Named neighbourhoods commonly associated with the ward, per source: Humber Summit, Humbermede, Humberlea, York University Heights, Jane and Finch, and the extreme western part of Downsview. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_7_Humber_River%E2%80%94Black_Creek, accessed 2026-08-14] Within the "Jane and Finch" area itself, a separate source distinguishes two sub-areas: the portion from Finch north to Steeles is commonly called Black Creek, while the portion from Finch south to Sheppard is commonly called Glenfield-Jane Heights — this is the source's own stated distinction, not a formal ward-neighbourhood mapping this project asserts. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_and_Finch, accessed 2026-08-14]

Civic texture — what’s live here

Transit & development

TTC service. Line 6 Finch West LRT opened December 7, 2025: 11 km, 18 stops, running along Finch Avenue West from Finch West Station (at Keele Street, the ward's eastern boundary) to Humber College Station near Highway 427. Peak headways run roughly every 6½ minutes (Mon–Fri, 7–10am and 3–7pm); full service now runs until 1am daily as of March 15, 2026. The line connects to TTC Line 1, roughly 30 TTC bus routes, and regional carriers (York Region Transit, MiWay, and others). [Source: https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/Line-6-Finch-West, accessed 2026-08-14] The line's 18 stops, in order, are: Finch West, Sentinel, Tobermory, Driftwood, Jane and Finch, Norfinch Oakdale, Signet Arrow, Emery, Milvan Rumike, Duncanwoods, Pearldale, Rowntree Mills, Mount Olive, Stevenson, Albion, Martin Grove, Westmore, and Humber College. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_Finch_West, accessed 2026-08-14] A ward-specific development report (see below) directly ties the Sentinel, Norfinch Oakdale, and Emery stops to projects sited within Ward 7; Tobermory and Driftwood sit immediately beside, respectively, the York Woods library branch and the Driftwood Community Recreation Centre, both themselves inside the ward (§5) — the stops west of Emery are not independently confirmed as inside Ward 7 (see §8; Ward 1 Etobicoke North's own research brief treats Humber College Station, the line's western terminus, as inside that ward, not this one).

Line 1 subway. The Line 1 Yonge-University extension (opened December 17, 2017) runs six stations, 8.6 km, from Sheppard West Station through York University to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, including York University Station and Pioneer Village Station — named after the nearby Black Creek Pioneer Village heritage site — near the ward's northwest. Finch West Station, at Keele Street and Finch Avenue West, sits on the ward's eastern boundary and now also serves as the eastern terminus of Line 6. [Source: https://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-line-1-extension-information-2017, accessed 2026-08-14] [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Village_station, accessed 2026-08-14]

Development pattern. UrbanToronto's Ward 7 Custom Location Report (dated September 2023 — historical texture, not a current count) tracked 36 projects in various stages: 24 pre-construction, 2 under construction, 10 recently completed, totalling 13,129 tracked new dwellings, with an average building height of 45.2 m (max 154.84 m) and an average Floor Space Index of 2.59 across the ward. Notable named projects: the Humber River Long Term Care Home (2111 Finch Ave W, 320 long-term-care beds, near the Norfinch Oakdale LRT stop); Casa Emery Village (2345 Finch Ave W, a 10-tower multi-phase project by Medallion Corporation totalling 2,237 units — three towers complete as of the report — near the Emery stop); and 470 Sentinel Road (Ranee Management/Kirkor Architects, five infill buildings adding 1,720 units on an existing tower-in-the-park site, near the Sentinel stop). [Source: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2023/09/utpro-instant-reports-torontos-ward-7-humber-river-black-creek-hotbed-diverse.53774, accessed 2026-08-14] This sits alongside the Jane Finch Secondary Plan / OPA 633 land-use framework and Community Development Plan described in §3, both explicitly framed by the City as growth-management ahead of and around the new LRT line.

Local commons

Toronto Public Library branches and Parks, Forestry & Recreation community/recreation centres located inside this ward’s boundary, joined by geographic coordinates (see Receipts) — complete citywide datasets for both layers, every ward covered.

Public libraries (5)

Community & recreation centres (19)

Parks aren’t listed here: parks joining is partial citywide — not shown rather than shown unevenly. The citywide parks join has fetched and joined 400 of the dataset’s 1,511 Park-type rows so far; that 400-row sample isn’t evenly distributed enough per ward to publish per-ward park lists or counts responsibly yet.

Local media landscape

Networks & local commons

As of August 17, 2026, this project's public organization registry maps 96 organizations directly to Ward 7 (Humber River-Black Creek) — corrected the same day from the 3 this brief had stated since mid-August, when a registry-wide bug was found: the public ward pages had been reading only the single canonical `"Ward 7 (Humber River-Black Creek)"` tag spelling and silently missing every alternate format the registry's own geography join (`org_placements.csv`) already resolves (bare `"Ward 7"`, a bare riding name, and more). The 3 organizations named below remain this ward's own individually-verified, hand-researched anchors — that research is untouched by this fix. The 93 more behind today's 96 total are principally bulk City/CRA register rows (early-years childcare, K-12 parent councils) captured registry-wide rather than ward-by-ward, carrying the weaker `seed-web-verified` status rather than a direct confirmation; 14 of the 96 total carry `verified-live` status:

These are a starting point, not a finished map. This brief's Local Commons section above already names Ward 7's civic-infrastructure anchors; those are the next nodes the sweep will connect these organizations to as it goes deeper, and city-wide organization mapping is underway ward by ward to reach the rest of this ward's faith communities, resident and tenant associations, cultural groups, service organizations, and the dozens of other categories this project tracks.

If you lead, work with, or simply know of an organization rooted in this ward, this project's tribes directory at https://unitetolove.ca/tribes/directory.html is where to add it or correct what's already there — every addition is checked against a public source before it's published.

The ward in numbers (2021 Census)

Source: City of Toronto Ward Profiles (25-Ward Model), Statistics Canada 2021 Census custom tabulations, City Planning Division, published December 2023. Household income reflects the 2020 reference year.

Population111,200
Median age37.6
Median household income (2020)$73,000
Renter / owner household split52.0% / 48.0%
Top home languages (excl. English/French)Vietnamese (5,795), Spanish (5,360), Italian (3,685)
Land area30.7 km²

See the citywide summary table for the same census columns, all 25 wards, one page.

What else is on your ballot

Every Toronto voter marks three races on October 26, 2026: this ward’s councillor (above), the citywide mayor, and one school trustee.

This ward’s trustee-crosswalk precision note: TDSB confirmed (The Etobicoke Voice: TDSB Ward1 = Etobicoke North + Humber River-Black Creek; corroborated by incumbent Matias de Dovitiis, ex-Humber River-Black Creek trustee, filing in new Ward1 per registry candidates.csv). TCDSB: NOT ESTABLISHED - a single local blog post also labelled a 'TCDSB Ward1 (Etobicoke North + Humber River-Black Creek)' but this directly contradicts TCDSB's own official board page (which lists Ward1 as simply 'Etobicoke' / 'North Etobicoke' and states elsewhere that TCDSB, unlike TDSB, has NOT restructured boundaries) - treated as an uncorroborated/likely copy-paste error, not used. Viamonde exact. MonAvenir not disambiguated.

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What this page doesn’t cover yet

This ward’s research brief names these additional gaps, plainly, rather than guessing over them:

Receipts — where every figure on this page comes from

This ward’s research-brief sources:

Per-candidate research notes, QA flags, and source-capture logs are kept in this project’s internal working files, not published here; every bio and every fact on this page is drawn from that work but the page itself states the fact, not the working notes behind it.

Found a mistake?

That’s the system working. Every figure on this page traces to a public source or a candidate’s own published material, cited in the Receipts section above; if one is wrong, out of date, or reads differently than the source supports, we want to know before anyone else repeats it. Send it to the corrections page — it takes thirty seconds, and every correction is published, dated, and left visible.