Candidate for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, a student running on housing, transit and local groceries.
Taiba Ahmed is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, with a nomination filed on May 8, 2026. Her campaign website says she studied political science and policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the only Ward 21 candidate whose answers appear on Build Canada’s page.
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Taiba Ahmed appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 8, 2026 and the campaign website taibafor21.ca.
Her campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says she studied political science and policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough and is an alumna of a Greater Toronto Area civic leadership cohort for youth. It says she has worked with tenant groups, newcomer organizations and youth centres. The site names no employer. The Local’s candidate tracker, written by that outlet’s journalists, says she is a student and research assistant at the University of Toronto Scarborough and, according to her LinkedIn page, a volunteer at The Second Chance Foundation and Crafting for a Cure. voche.me did not check those roles with the organizations.
Her website lists housing, transit, youth crime prevention and local groceries as her main areas. It says she opposes the City’s plan to allow six-unit and eight-unit buildings on quiet side streets in Scarborough, and wants as-of-right densification (building without a separate approval) limited to transit corridors and arterial roads. The Local reports the same position and adds that she wants a one-year pause on data centres while the City studies them. That is The Local’s account of her platform.
Build Canada’s Ward 21 page shows her as the only candidate of 11 to answer its questionnaire. She answered Yes to allowing many more homes as-of-right in every ward, with a comment that she will oppose downtown-style high-rise and condo development and favour housing types that fit neighbourhood character. She answered No to road-pricing measures such as congestion charges or tolls, Yes to raising additional local revenue for the infrastructure repair backlog, Yes to publishing project-level budgets and schedules for major capital projects, and Yes to requiring a person living in a park to leave when an indoor space that meets their needs has been offered. Those are her answers to a non-profit’s survey, and voche.me read only the first five questions on the page.
TTCriders’ Ward 21 page records no response from her to its 18 transit questions.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
Her website says she will expand funding for Toronto Community Housing and made-for-rent housing on City property, expand co-operatively owned housing, stop the sale of public land to speculators and investors, and restrict as-of-right densification to transit corridors and arterial roads.
Taiba Ahmed · campaign home pageHer website says she will push to speed up the Line 2 extension and the Eglinton East light rail line, overhaul bus schedules to reduce bunching and wait times, and add transit signal priority on Scarborough Centre arterial roads.
Taiba Ahmed · campaign home pageHer website says she supports a well-funded police force and also wants more transparent funding for crime prevention groups, the Neighbourhood Community Officer program (police officers assigned to one neighbourhood) expanded to all Scarborough Centre neighbourhoods, and a ward-level youth volunteer and employment program.
Taiba Ahmed · campaign home pageHer website says she will provide grants and zero-interest loans to local grocery stores, invest in regional distribution centres, and make more money and resources available to Scarborough food banks.
Taiba Ahmed · campaign home pageEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page, her campaign website home page (which carries her platform, story and quick facts), The Local’s Ward 21 tracker, Build Canada’s Ward 21 page, TTCriders’ Ward 21 page and The Green Line’s list of events for council candidates. Every statement taken from her campaign website is written as the campaign’s own account.
Ward context. The sitting Ward 21 councillor on the City’s Members of Council page is Michael Thompson, who is also a candidate. The 11 candidates on the City’s list are Taiba Ahmed, Bahareh Barahmand, Patience Evbagharu, Uthish Ganesh, Stella Kargiannakis, Nisha Kumari, Akina Lalla, Willie Reodica, Madura Shanmugaratnam, Michael Thompson and Krissan Veerasingam. The City Clerk’s 2022 results for Ward 21 list 6 candidates: Michael Thompson (9,977 votes, elected), Muhammad Ayub (2,478), Paul Beatty (1,857), Kiri Vadivelu (1,800), Hansie Daniel (1,375) and Luigi Lisciandro (570). Of the 2026 candidates, only Michael Thompson appears in the Clerk’s Ward 21 results. Build Canada’s Ward 21 page says 1 of 11 candidates, Taiba Ahmed, had answered its questionnaire. TTCriders’ Ward 21 page lists 8 of the 11 candidates and records answers to its 18 questions from 3 of them: Michael Thompson, Bahareh Barahmand and Krissan Veerasingam. The Green Line’s list of events for council candidates, opened on October 4, 2026, has no entry naming Ward 21 or Scarborough Centre, so voche.me states no debate date, host or attendance.
Gaps. Her website links Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Nextdoor accounts. Her Instagram profile opened with a web reader and returned a summary only, so nothing from it is used, and the other accounts were not opened. The pages her website links as sources and her platform documents were not opened. voche.me read the first five answers on Build Canada’s page and did not read the rest. The student and volunteer details come from her website and from The Local’s reading of her LinkedIn page. The questionnaire has not been sent.
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