Candidate for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York, a business management consultant and community council co-chair, by his own account.
Mohammad Shabani is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York, with a nomination filed on August 20, 2026. The City Clerk’s results for the February 13, 2017 by-election in Ward 42 Scarborough-Rouge River list a Mohammad Shabani with 30 votes of 10,418 declared, and The Local ties that run to him.
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Mohammad Shabani appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 19 Beaches-East York. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 20, 2026 and the campaign website vote4shabani.ca.
The City Clerk’s declaration of results for the by-election of Monday, February 13, 2017 for Councillor in Scarborough-Rouge River, Ward 42, as the ward was then, lists Mohammad Shabani with 30 votes. The 29 candidates’ declared totals add up to 10,418 votes, so his share was 0.29 percent, calculated by voche.me from those figures. Neethan Shan was elected with 4,765 votes. Three candidates tied at 30 votes, and the City’s table prints his name 19th of 29. The Local says he ran in Ward 42 and placed 19th of 29, which ties that entry to him. The Local calls the year 2017, matching the by-election.
His campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says he is a trained engineer, chemist and biologist and works as a business management consultant. It says he served as a community representative on the East Toronto Health Partners leadership table, won the 2022 Cathy Fooks and Malcolm Moffat Awards, served 4 years as co-chair of the Taylor Massey Residents Wellness Council, and volunteered for 10 years as a youth volleyball coach at the Crescent Town Club. The Local says he was co-chair of the Taylor-Massey Residents Wellness Council until 2025. East Toronto Health Partners’ page for the council lists a Mohammad Shabani among its members, with a short profile that gives no co-chair title. voche.me did not check his training, the awards or the coaching role with the bodies named.
His website sets out proposals that include a Vertical Sidewalk Bylaw that would require landlords to fix broken elevators within 48 hours, city-built mixed-income housing modelled on Vienna, a Toronto Community Investment Bank (a city-owned credit union), a downtown driving fee that would fund the TTC, and a voting system in which voters rate candidates and each area elects two people. In the Build Canada questionnaire he says he prefers the Vienna model to broad private upzoning and gives priority to expanding rapid transit.
TTCriders’ Ward 19 page records a Yes from him on all 18 of its transit questions and shows his comment on a program for riders with invisible disabilities. Build Canada lists him among the 5 candidates who answered its questionnaire. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results for Ward 19 has no entry under his name. No elected office is on record in his profile.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His Top Priorities page proposes a Vertical Sidewalk Bylaw requiring landlords to fix broken elevators within 48 hours, building-wide pest treatment through RentSafeTO inspections, a minimum number of working laundry machines, indoor bike storage with outdoor e-bike charging hubs, and a Tenant Home Renovation Standard.
Vote4Shabani · Top PrioritiesHis Housing Strategy page proposes that the City build mixed-income apartments directly (30 percent low-income, 40 percent middle-income or co-op, 30 percent market rent) that stay affordable for at least 99 years, approve qualifying non-profit projects within 60 days, and fund non-profits to buy aging apartment buildings.
Vote4Shabani · Housing StrategyHis Transportation Strategy page proposes a digital downtown driving fee with the money going to the TTC, more bus and protected bike lanes, higher parking rates, finishing the Ontario Line, and rezoning for 15-minute neighbourhoods.
Vote4Shabani · Transportation StrategyHis High Rise Hub page proposes shared streets with a walking-speed limit under 10 km/h, slow-speed rules outside Secord Public School, Crescent Town Elementary and George Webster Public School, and a community role for the new Dawes Road library.
Vote4Shabani · The High Rise HubEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates and Members of Council page, the City Clerk’s declarations of results for the 2022 general election and the February 13, 2017 Ward 42 by-election, nine pages of his campaign website (home, Meet your Candidate, Top Priorities, Housing Strategy, Transportation Strategy, Public Health and Safety, The High Rise Hub, Toronto Community Investment Bank and E-DEV, with the Banana Campaign and Press Release pages also saved), East Toronto Health Partners’ council page, The Local’s Ward 19 tracker, Build Canada’s Ward 19 page, TTCriders’ Ward 19 page, The Green Line’s Ward 19 profile and its list of ward debates, and two further Beach Metro pieces on the race. No elected office is on record in his profile. Every statement taken from his campaign website is written as his own account.
Ward context. The City’s Members of Council page lists Brad Bradford as the Ward 19 Beaches-East York councillor. The City’s list of certified candidates shows him as a candidate for Mayor, and The Local, The Green Line and Beach Metro each report that he is running for mayor and not for the ward seat, so none of the 13 Ward 19 candidates is a sitting councillor. The 13 on the City’s list are Syeda Jaana Ali, James Dann, Nate Erskine-Smith, Fatima Ibrahimi, Natalie Johnson, Kevin Morrison, Karsten Riedel, Mohammad Shabani, Adam Smith, Austin Vieira, Jeff Wahl, Devin Wilkins and Jennie Worden. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results for Ward 19 Beaches-East York lists 7 candidates: Brad Bradford (15,169 votes, elected), Jennie Worden (6,291), Adam Smith (1,902), Steven Thompson (1,735), Frank Marra (1,460), Donna Braniff (702) and Sébastien Auger (469). Of the 13 candidates, the Clerk’s 2022 Ward 19 table names two, Worden and Smith, and The Local says each of them ran there in 2022, in second and third place. No other 2026 Ward 19 candidate appears in that table. Build Canada’s Ward 19 page lists James Dann, Mohammad Shabani, Adam Smith, Austin Vieira and Jennie Worden as the 5 candidates who answered its questionnaire. TTCriders’ page shows answers to its 18 questions from 7 candidates (Ali, Dann, Erskine-Smith, Shabani, Smith, Wahl and Worden) and no response from the other 6. Beach Metro printed written answers from 11 of the 13 candidates on September 22, 2026. A candidate forum for Ward 19 was listed for September 28, 2026 at 5 Massey Square, organised by The Neighbourhood Organization, Don Valley Community Legal Services and the Taylor-Massey Oakridge Community Response Team, and Beach Metro lists a meet-and-greet at Beach United Church on October 5, 2026 that 12 candidates (all but Fatima Ibrahimi) confirmed they will attend. A listing records an invitation, and voche.me found no report of who took part in the forum.
Gaps. His degrees, professional training, the 2022 awards, the co-chair role and the volleyball coaching are his own account and were not checked with the bodies named. A web search for the awards found no page that names them. The Local places his earlier run in 2017 and the City Clerk’s document is a February 2017 by-election, and no other election result for him was found. Beach Metro’s Q&A series printed no answers from him. His Instagram profile opened and showed one post caption about a banana campaign that hands out bananas in place of flyers. His Facebook link was not opened. Build Canada’s questionnaire answers from him were read only in part. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The Local reports that he was co-chair of the council until 2025, and his campaign website says he served 4 years as co-chair. East Toronto Health Partners’ page for the council lists a Mohammad Shabani among its members. voche.me did not check the co-chair role with the council.
East Toronto Health Partners · Taylor-Massey Residents Wellness CouncilThe City Clerk’s declaration of results lists Mohammad Shabani with 30 votes, 19th of 29 in the table, with Neethan Shan elected. The Local ties the entry to him.
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