Candidate for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, a teacher running on housing, jobs and the Kennedy Road bus lane.
Uthish Ganesh is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Councillor in Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, with a nomination filed on July 31, 2026. Both his campaign website and The Local describe him as a teacher at a high school in the ward. His website sets out six priorities with costs and timelines.
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Uthish Ganesh 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 July 31, 2026 and the campaign website ganeshforward21.ca.
His campaign website, the campaign’s own statement, says he grew up in Ward 21 in community housing, completed a Master’s degree at the University of Toronto, studied at Oxford University, and now teaches history and English at a high school in the ward, where it says he is a department head of English and a curriculum developer. It says he coaches basketball and has run food programs and town halls. voche.me did not check these claims with the schools, the board or the organizations.
The Local’s candidate tracker, written by that outlet’s journalists, says he is a teacher at Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute and a cohort member of Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Lived Experience Advisory Group. It says he has organized town halls on Scarborough’s safety and tenant rights with groups including Toronto police, the Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities, housing advocacy groups and the Toronto Transit Commission. That is The Local’s account.
His website’s Platform page lists six priorities: Homes for All, Jobs in Scarborough, Bring Back the Lane, Safe Streets, Food, and Public Space. It states a number or a timeline for most of them, such as 150 youth hired in the first 100 days and 1,000 summer youth jobs, and describes a plan costed at $1.16 million a year for the second. These are the campaign’s own figures and voche.me did not check them.
TTCriders’ Ward 21 page records no response from him to its 18 transit questions. Build Canada’s page lists him as yet to answer its questionnaire.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
His Platform page says every new development must include a share of rent-to-own homes, that 30 to 40 percent of construction, security and maintenance workers must come from within 3 to 5 kilometres of a site, and that every Toronto Community Housing building in the ward would be inspected with the findings published in year one.
Uthish Ganesh · PlatformHis Platform page says he will hire 150 youth in the first 100 days, create 1,000 youth summer jobs through a wage subsidy plan costed at $1.16 million a year, push a Council motion to protect and expand employment lands in Scarborough Centre, and require local hiring in developments.
Uthish Ganesh · PlatformHis Platform page says he will remove the Kennedy Road bus lane, convert the remaining bus lanes to carpool lanes during the morning and afternoon rush hours, push for service that matches what the Scarborough RT line provided, and require consultation before construction.
Uthish Ganesh · PlatformHis Platform page says he will grow the Neighbourhood Community Officer program (police officers assigned to one area), give a public accounting of where each police budget increase went, redraw patrol boundaries, and fund youth programming, recreation and jobs as safety spending.
Uthish Ganesh · PlatformEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, its Members of Council page, three pages of his campaign website (home, Meet Uthish and Platform), 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 his 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. His website’s menu also lists Know Your Ward, Get Involved, Contact and Donate pages, and the Know Your Ward page was not opened. His website links no social media account that voche.me could read. Personal and family details on his Meet Uthish page are left out. The Local’s statements about his advisory group seat and his town halls come from The Local alone. The questionnaire has not been sent.
His campaign website says he teaches history and English at a high school in the ward and is a department head of English. The Local names the school as Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute. voche.me did not check this with the school or the board.
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