Candidate for Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir in Ward 3 Toronto Ouest, a school council president running for the first time.
Yelena Nichilo is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir in Ward 3 Toronto Ouest, with a nomination filed on August 18, 2026 and a campaign website. Her site and ONFR describe her as president of the parent council of École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Cœur de Toronto, and ONFR says she is running for the first time. Her site lists four priorities: transparency and accountability, a stronger voice for parents, responsible management of public funds and better consultation on decisions that affect schools.
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Yelena Nichilo appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir in Ward 3 Toronto Ouest. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as August 18, 2026 and a campaign website, voteyelenanichilo.ca. Ward 3 Toronto Ouest covers City wards 1 to 13. The board’s members page lists Nathalie Dufour-Séguin for the Toronto-Ouest region, and the City’s list for Ward 3 names three candidates: Angela Ogang, Josiane Aboungono and Yelena Nichilo.
Her site says she has been a member of the parent council of École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Cœur de Toronto since 2019 and its president for three years. It says she created and led a committee on stronger ties with parents, and that the council under her leadership started parent groups for each class, a free five-day-a-week morning snack program and a wider set of French-language after-school activities. Her site also says she has more than 20 years in financial services, including 13 years at one of Canada’s five largest banks, and is now Director of Operations at a financial services firm. It says she studied economics at the Glendon campus of York University. Those are her own statements, and voche.me did not check them.
ONFR’s article of September 14, 2026 calls her president of the parent council of that school and says she is running for the first time. It reports that she decided to run because of what she describes as a lack of transparency and communication about a school yard project at École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Cœur de Toronto, and that she wants to bring change to the board from the inside and expects trustees to ask hard questions and demand transparency. ONFR’s article of September 21, 2026 quotes her on the voters’ list: she told ONFR that the way the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) organizes its database adds steps for eligible voters who want to vote for francophone trustees, and she called the system outdated, undemocratic and hostile to francophones. These are her statements, and the English is voche.me’s paraphrase of the French articles.
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Her site says parents deserve to understand how decisions about their children are made and how public funds are spent. It says she will push for clearer communication and accountability at every level of the board.
Yelena Nichilo campaign website · PrioritiesHer site says she will be accessible and responsive, and wants better communication between families, parent councils, trustees and the board so that parents are heard before important decisions are made.
Yelena Nichilo campaign website · PrioritiesHer site says she will use her background in finance, operations, policy and compliance to ask questions, examine how funds are used and push for stronger oversight.
Yelena Nichilo campaign website · PrioritiesHer site says that for major projects families should receive clear information, enough notice and a real chance to give input while it can still change the outcome.
Yelena Nichilo campaign website · PrioritiesEvidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, four pages of her campaign website, two ONFR articles of September 2026, her Know Your Vote T.O. page, the board’s trustee page and the City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results. Name, office, ward and nomination date are as the City prints them. Her campaign website is the campaign’s own statement, so each claim taken from it is attributed in the sentence that carries it.
ONFR’s article of September 14, 2026 also carries her statements about how current trustees have acted. They rest on her account alone, the article names no trustee and carries no response from any trustee, and no board record that voche.me could read covers them. voche.me looked for a second source in a name search and on the board’s pages and found none, so those statements are left out of this record. The City Clerk’s 2022 declaration lists no entry under her name. Her Instagram profile showed a short bio that calls her a candidate for MonAvenir, with no readable captions, so nothing else from it is used. Her Know Your Vote T.O. page carries written answers in French, which are her own words and which the project does not check.
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Her site says she has been a member of the parent council since 2019 and its president for three years. ONFR’s article of September 14, 2026 calls her president of the parent council of that school.
Yelena Nichilo campaign website · About YelenaHer site says she has more than 20 years in financial services, including 13 years at one of Canada’s five largest banks, and is now Director of Operations at a financial services firm. voche.me did not check this.
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