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Ward 23 — Scarborough North

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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.

Scarborough North sits in the city's northeast corner, bordered by Steeles Avenue (the Markham boundary) to the north, Highway 401 to the south, Midland Avenue to the west, and Neilson Road to the east. It's a low-rise, largely residential suburban ward whose named neighbourhoods — Malvern, Milliken, Morningside Heights, and the eastern half of Agincourt — have no subway or LRT line of their own and are served entirely by TTC and GO bus/rail connections at the ward's edges. The ward is currently the site of two connected, ward-specific planning stories: a City-approved pilot allowing five- and six-unit "multiplex" housing on typical single-family lots (a first for Toronto, unique to this ward), and a long-running private redevelopment proposal to rebuild the aging Malvern Town Centre mall into a mixed-use, multi-tower neighbourhood.

The race & the 2022 baseline

2022 result: Jamaal Myers won by 24.6 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 25.09% (15,388 of 61,338 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 (5)

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).

Han Dong

Registered 2026-06-17 · Website: https://www.votehandong.ca/

Han Dong is a candidate for Ward 23 Scarborough North, registered on June 17, 2026. His campaign site describes his family arriving in Scarborough in 1990, working the night shift at his parents' 24-hour coffee shop, and his subsequent political career as an Ontario MPP (2014-2018) and Member of Parliament (2019-2025). The site states general priorities of affordability, housing, public safety, transit, and community services, and says he would draw on his provincial and federal experience to bring investment and a more fiscally prudent approach to City Hall. As of August 14, 2026, the site's dedicated "Platform" page was a placeholder reading "Platform Coming Soon," with no itemized policy commitments yet published.

Sajawal Javed

Registered 2026-07-15 · Website: no campaign website on file

Sajawal Javed is a candidate for Toronto City Council, Ward 23 Scarborough North, in the 2026 municipal election, registered on July 15, 2026. As of August 14, 2026, no campaign website had been located; an Instagram account is on file for the campaign, but its posts were not available to this synthesis from local records.

Kevin Li

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

Kevin Li is a candidate for Ward 23 Scarborough North, registered on May 1, 2026. His campaign site describes him assisting the late Councillor Cynthia Lai until her death in 2022 and continuing to informally help residents since, including walking what the site describes as every street in the ward over eight years; it also describes a background as a former teacher and small-business founder. His platform lists community safety and stronger community policing; better city services and responsible spending, including keeping tax increases below income growth; support for families, seniors, and youth; and accountability measures such as no self-approved pay raises, committing to serve a full term, and donating 10 percent of his salary to local food banks.

Jamaal Myers (incumbent)

Registered 2026-05-19 · Website: https://electjamaalmyers.ca/

Jamaal Myers is the incumbent councillor for Ward 23 Scarborough North, registered as a candidate on May 19, 2026. His campaign site describes his record since first being elected in 2022, including chairing the TTC since 2023 and freezing TTC fares for three years, a sixplex housing pilot he links to $471 million in federal affordable-housing funding, securing funding for the Scarborough Busway (opening September 2026) and for widening Steeles Avenue (construction starting 2027), and opening youth hubs at two libraries. His forward priorities include faster transit and safer streets, affordable homes in safer neighbourhoods, modernized city services, investment in youth and seniors, and support for local businesses and jobs.

John-Mark Oleh

Registered 2026-07-14 · Website: https://www.johnmarkoleh.ca/

John-Mark Oleh is a candidate for Ward 23 Scarborough North, registered on July 14, 2026. His campaign site describes growing up in the Malvern area of Scarborough North and attending school in the community. His platform lists four priorities: respect for every tax dollar, including publishing regular spending updates for the ward; transit that respects residents' time, including advocating for more reliable and frequent bus service and better bus shelters and lighting; healthcare that supports every resident, including community healthcare partnerships and youth mental-health support; and Scarborough's "fair share" of infrastructure investment, including safer roads and more funding for parks and recreation.

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 (Elections Ontario boundary text, reproduced on Wikipedia): commencing at the intersection of the northerly limit of the City with the Rouge River; thence generally southerly along the river to the electric power transmission line; thence westerly along that transmission line to Morningside Avenue; thence southerly along Morningside Avenue to Neilson Road; thence generally southerly along Neilson Road to Highway No. 401; thence westerly along the highway to Midland Avenue; thence northerly along Midland Avenue to the northerly limit of the City; thence easterly along that limit back to the point of commencement. In plain terms: Steeles Avenue East to the north (the boundary with Markham), Highway 401 to the south, Midland Avenue to the west, and Neilson Road/the Rouge River corridor to the east. Community council: Scarborough. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_23_Scarborough_North, accessed 2026-08-14] [Source: https://www.elections.on.ca/content/dam/NGW/sitecontent/2017/preo/122-eds-legal-descriptions-english/096ScarboroughNorthLegalDescriptionENGLISH.pdf (Elections Ontario legal description, as cited by the Wikipedia article above), accessed 2026-08-14 — link confirmed via the Wikipedia citation, not independently re-fetched and rendered] [Source: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9483-CityPlanning-Map-Ward-23.pdf (City of Toronto ward map PDF), accessed 2026-08-14]

Named neighbourhoods/areas commonly associated with the ward, per the sitting councillor's own constituency-office description and an independent candidate-tracker outlet: Agincourt, Milliken, Malvern, and Morningside Heights. [Source: https://www.jamaalmyers.com/our-ward, accessed 2026-08-14] [Source: https://thelocal.to/ward-23-scarborough-north/, accessed 2026-08-14]

Important caveat on "Agincourt" and "Milliken": both names refer to larger historical areas that straddle Midland Avenue, the ward's own western boundary. Wikipedia's Agincourt neighbourhood article states plainly: "The section of Agincourt west of Midland Avenue belongs to the electoral district of Scarborough—Agincourt, while the section to the east is part of Scarborough North" — i.e., only the Midland-to-the-east portion of Agincourt is this ward; the portion west of Midland (including the historic Agincourt Public Library building, "on the west side of Midland Avenue, just north of Sheppard Avenue") is not. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agincourt,_Toronto, accessed 2026-08-14] Milliken is described by Wikipedia as "centred on Kennedy Road and Steeles Avenue" — Kennedy Road sits well west of Midland Avenue in Scarborough's arterial-road sequence, so at least part of the area commonly called "Milliken" likely falls in the adjacent ward rather than this one; this brief does not assert a precise split for Milliken the way it can for Agincourt (no source found states the Milliken/ward-22 split as explicitly as the Agincourt Wikipedia article does). See §8. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken,_Toronto, accessed 2026-08-14]

Civic texture — what’s live here

Transit & development

No subway or LRT line runs within Ward 23's boundaries; the ward is served entirely by TTC bus routes and, at its southwest edge, the Milliken GO Station (Stouffville line, GO Transit/Metrolinx) — though this brief could not confirm the station's exact address (39 Redlea Avenue) sits inside rather than just outside the ward's western Midland Avenue boundary; see §8. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken_GO_Station, accessed 2026-08-14] TTC bus routes reported as serving the ward, per the ward councillor's constituency-office website (facts stated below are TTC service/route facts as described there; this brief did not independently cross-verify each route/date against a TTC service-change bulletin — see §8): the 903 Kennedy–SCC Express (launched September 2023, runs on Midland and Kennedy with dedicated lanes and signal priority); the 904 Sheppard–Kennedy Express (launched September 2024); the 334 Eglinton East (launched February 2026, part of the Line 5 Eglinton surface bus network); and the 830 Middlefield (launched February 2026, described as designed for school travel within Scarborough North). The same source describes service increases on routes 129 McCowan North, 38 Highland Creek, 131 Nugget, 939 Finch Express, 902 Markham Road Express, 39 Finch East, 53 Steeles East, 57 Midland, 21 Brimley, 85 Sheppard East, and 43 Kennedy. [Source: https://www.jamaalmyers.com/ttc-in-ward-23, accessed 2026-08-14] Development: the ward's most significant live planning activity is residential — the Ward 23 Multiplex Study (ward-wide low-rise intensification, §3) and the Malvern Town Centre master-plan redevelopment (large-scale, multi-tower, §3) — rather than a single dominant transit-infrastructure project of the kind found in some other wards.

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 (3)

Community & recreation centres (14)

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 114 organizations directly to Ward 23 (Scarborough North) — up from the 87 this brief stated the previous day. A dedicated dork-library sweep completed the same day ran a full category-by-category search across the ward's own named areas (Malvern, Milliken, Morningside Heights, and the eastern half of Agincourt only — the historic Agincourt/Milliken cores west of Midland Avenue are a different ward, and seven plausible-looking finds on that side of the line were independently confirmed outside the boundary and excluded) and against its top five home languages besides English and French (Cantonese, Mandarin, Tamil, Tagalog and Urdu). Nineteen further organizations and groups were newly added — residents' associations, a housing co-op, congregations, food-security programs, an arts collective, and a community-wealth-building initiative among them, spanning faith, food systems, mutual aid, environment, and ethnocultural categories — and eight already-registered Ward 23 organizations, found again independently by this same sweep, had their location corrected on the record: several carried the wrong ward entirely (a cluster of Malvern churches had been tagged to Scarborough-Rouge Park), others a generic "Toronto" tag or a ward label the site's own classifier doesn't recognize without the literal word "Ward." Among the corrections is the Malvern Family Resource Centre, a major multi-service hub (EarlyON, youth, a 55+ seniors' centre, newcomer settlement, survivor support) that had never carried a ward-specific tag at all. The remaining 87 organizations behind today's total are principally bulk City/CRA register rows (early-years childcare, K-12 parent councils) captured registry-wide rather than ward-by-ward; 8 of the 114 carry `verified-live` status, the rest `seed-web-verified` or, for two thinly-sourced finds, `seed-unverified` pending a fuller confirmation pass. This sweep also found real gaps worth stating plainly: no BIA exists anywhere in the ward (checked against the City's own BIA list), no union local could be pinned inside the Tapscott Road employment corridor, and — despite a cricket-heavy South Asian population share — no movement/play club or rec league was independently confirmed as ward-based.

This brief's Local Commons section above already names Ward 23's civic-infrastructure anchors; those, plus the organizations above, are the backbone the city-wide network map builds outward from.

City-wide organization mapping is underway ward by ward. If you lead, work with, or simply know of a congregation, resident or tenant association, cultural group, or service 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.

Population94,025
Median age42.8
Median household income (2020)$87,000
Renter / owner household split20.6% / 79.4%
Top home languages (excl. English/French)Yue (Cantonese) (17,135), Mandarin (10,290), Tamil (6,050)
Land area30.4 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: NOT ESTABLISHED. TCDSB: see ward 20 note - UNRESOLVED. 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?

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