First-time candidate for Councillor in Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park, with a career in corporate management.
Dharshan Casinathen is a first-time candidate for Councillor in Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park, with a nomination filed on August 17, 2026. His campaign site describes a plan built on safety, movement and prosperity, and says he holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. The Local reports, citing his LinkedIn profile, that he is a senior manager at Labatt Breweries of Canada.
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Toronto municipal electionDharshan Casinathen appears on the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 17, 2026 and gives his campaign website, torontoward25.ca. voche.me treats that site as the campaign's own statement.
His campaign website, the campaign's own account, calls him a first-time candidate and says he grew up in Scarborough. It says he has led teams across insights, finance, technology and sales and holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. It describes a practical plan built on three pillars, safety, movement and prosperity, and says Ward 25 "deserves our fair share". voche.me confirmed none of these credentials with the school or an employer.
The Local's 2026 tracker, updated September 21, 2026, says his LinkedIn page lists him as a senior manager at Labatt Breweries of Canada. It says his site prioritizes safe streets, transit investment and prosperous small businesses, and that in Instagram videos he said potholes in the ward need to be fixed and that he would aim to be more transparent about 311 service requests. voche.me did not open those videos or his LinkedIn page. The Centennial Community and Recreation Association's listing of Ward 25 candidates, which reads as text the candidates supplied, says he is a lifelong Scarborough resident who came to business and corporate leadership from music and audio engineering. CP24's Your 30 Seconds series carries a video pitch from him dated September 23, 2026. voche.me could not read a transcript of it.
Build Canada's Ward 25 page records his answers to its questionnaire. He answered No to permitting more housing as of right in every ward, writing that he needs to understand the topic more before committing to a Yes. He answered No to road pricing, writing that there should be tolls for people coming into the city. He answered Yes to raising additional local revenue to repair infrastructure, adding "But it can not be through raising property taxes", and Yes to publishing project-level budgets. He chose "Lighting, maintenance, sanitation and active use of streets and parks" for the greatest additional public-safety investment and wrote that the Toronto Police Service budget should remain approximately constant after inflation, with line-by-line review to make room for neighbourhood patrols. He chose new rapid-transit lines and extensions for the next transit funding and wrote that the East Eglinton extension needs to get done. These are his answers to a news organization's questionnaire. TTCriders' Ward 25 page records "No response" from him to each of its 18 transit questions.
The City Clerk's declarations of results for the 2022 general election and the 2025 by-election list no candidate named Dharshan Casinathen in any race.
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His site describes a plan with three pillars. Under safety it lists clear driver and pedestrian visibility and practical maintenance. Under movement it says major transit starts and ends in Ward 25 and deserves investment. Under prosperity it lists tools for small businesses and skill-building programs for young families.
Dharshan Casinathen · campaign home pageHe chose new rapid-transit lines and extensions as the best use of the next transit funding and wrote that the East Eglinton extension needs to get done.
Build Canada · Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park candidate pageHe wrote that policing and all other services and spending should be reviewed by line item to find efficiencies, and that more revenue should not come from raising property taxes.
Build Canada · Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park candidate pageEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto's list of certified candidates, the City Clerk's declarations of results for the 2022 election and the 2025 by-election, the campaign website's text, The Local's Ward 25 tracker, TTCriders' and Build Canada's Ward 25 pages, the Centennial Community and Recreation Association's candidate listing and CP24's video page. Every statement taken from his campaign website is written as the campaign's own account.
Ward context. The City's Members of Council page for Ward 25 Scarborough-Rouge Park lists Councillor Neethan Shan, and the City Clerk's declaration of results for the September 29, 2025 by-election names him elected. The City's list of certified candidates shows 10 candidates for Councillor in the ward: Shawn Allen, Dharshan Casinathen, Ashan Fernando, Somas Kaneshapillai, Jannette Lumley, Zakir Patel, Dianna Robinson, Neethan Shan, Kannan S'ree Jr and Vane Stavrev. The 2025 by-election results name Shawn Allen, Zakir Patel, Dianna Robinson, Ashan Fernando and Neethan Shan among 20 candidates and do not name Casinathen. The ward's community associations list a candidate marketplace on October 10, 2026 and a candidate forum on October 13, 2026, both after the research date.
Gaps. His campaign site shows only its title when opened without scripts, so voche.me read the site's text from the script file that holds it. The site's own text was read, and no other page of it was found. His Instagram page, linked from the site, returned only the platform's menu and no posts, so nothing from social media is used. The City's decisions site returned HTTP 403, and he holds no public office on record, so no vote is cited. The CP24 video was not transcribed. The questionnaire has not been sent.
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