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Ward 3

Northeast London — Kilally corridor · north of Fanshawe Park Road

Researched July 2, 2026 · updated July 3, 2026 · 4 candidates registered

Your ward at a glance

Four candidates and counting: first-term incumbent Peter Cuddy faces Ben Durham, Harkirat Kaur, and sitting school-board trustee Leroy Osbourne; nominations stay open until August 21, 2026. The race is about growth in the northeast (tower proposals, dug-up roads) and an incumbent whose early 2025 brought three controversies alongside his record. Boundary note: areas north of Fanshawe Park Road join Ward 3, while most of the Huron Heights core is expected to move to Ward 4.

What Ward 3 is wrestling with

Honestly told: the situation, the numbers, and what to ask the people who want your vote.

■ CITY DECIDES

The tower fight at Highbury and Kilally

Neighbours pushed back on a proposal for three 14-storey towers just south of Kilally Road, and in 2025 London's Planning and Environment Committee rejected it. City planning staff had recommended against it, citing a high water table, well-water and traffic impacts raised by nearby residents, and a conservation-authority setback requirement. Councillor Cuddy called the plan "not responsible... not sustainable." Developers can appeal such decisions to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

The honest numbers ▾

Three proposed 14-storey towers (402 units) at 1470–1474 Highbury Avenue North; staff cited roughly 400,000 litres of groundwater pumping per day during construction and a UTRCA-required 25-metre setback from an on-site watercourse.

Ask your candidates

Which specific sites in Ward 3 should take high-density growth, and which are off-limits?

■ CITY DECIDES

Kilally Road is getting dug up

Kilally Road is being rebuilt: the city's Kilally Infrastructure Project is upgrading underground pipes, services, and the road itself from Webster Street to Clarke Road, explicitly framed as supporting active transportation and future growth in this part of the city.

The honest numbers ▾

Construction is planned in stages: Webster–Sandford (2026), Sandford–Clarke (2027), surface work and cleanup (2028). City of London (Get Involved) ↗

Ask your candidates

Name one concrete step you'd take to keep the Kilally Road work on schedule.

■ CITY DECIDES

Which ward are you in now?

Some residents will vote in a different ward than in 2022: the final boundary option moves the Ward 3/Ward 4 line and adds territory north of Fanshawe Park Road to Ward 3. Some current Ward 3 files, including Huron Heights-specific ones, may shift to the new Ward 4 councillor instead. Confirm your new ward on the city's interactive map rather than assuming continuity.

The honest numbers ▾

The 2025 population estimate for the then-current Ward 3 was 27,299 — the smallest ward population cited in the boundary review's example table.

Ask your candidates

Which neighbourhoods that are new to Ward 3 will you visit first, and when?

■ CITY DECIDES

What sidewalk money reaches Ward 3?

London's Connectivity Plan and the Renew London capital program include sidewalk, cycling, and road work relevant to the ward's growth areas. We couldn't confirm specific Ward 3 line items in this research pass.

The honest numbers ▾

Roughly $385 million citywide in 2026; no Ward 3-specific project list confirmed.

Ask your candidates

Which sidewalk and cycling connections inside the new Ward 3 would you push to fund first?

Who’s running

Listed alphabetically. Identical treatment for every candidate — that’s the deal.

CUDDY DURHAM KAUR OSBOURNE

Peter Cuddy

First-term Ward 3 councillor elected in 2022, former Vice-Chair of the Thames Valley District School Board (2018–2022), and a longtime London bakery/coffee shop owner with an MA in Economic History and an Ivey MBA; he sits on the Planning and Environment, Audit, and Strategic Priorities and Policy committees.

RECORD · 2022–2026 →

SPECIFICITYNo platform published yet — checked July 3, 2026

PLATFORM, RECORD & CONTACT▾

Record — WHAT THEY DID

How they voted — the landmark-vote scorecard →

NOTES

He has filed for re-election and his campaign site displays a "My Promises To You" section, but it is a single image graphic rather than readable text — and the image file on the live page is named "Cuddy_Pillars_2022.png" with a September 2022 upload timestamp, indicating the promises displayed are his 2022 campaign pillars. No 2026-specific platform text was found on the site as of July 3, 2026; the "no platform" status here means no readable 2026 platform, not that no platform exists. campaign site graphic (filename and timestamp visible in URL) ↗

He was removed from the London Public Library Board in early 2025 after missing three consecutive meetings; his removal prompted council discussion about rules for missed meetings on external boards and commissions. Per a CTV headline, he addressed the removal publicly alongside the January 2025 video incident (described as apologetic but defiant); no fuller response to the removal itself was located in this research pass. CTV News ↗

In January 2025, cellphone video showed him in a heated, vulgar exchange with a political strategist who was attempting to serve him with legal papers outside his home; the videos prompted a Code of Conduct complaint, which the Integrity Commissioner decided not to investigate. Cuddy discussed the incident publicly, described in CTV coverage as apologetic but defiant about the videos. No formal misconduct finding was made against him. CTV News ↗

His bid to seek a Progressive Conservative nomination in London-Fanshawe was reported as "derailed" around the same period; details — including whether the riding was provincial or federal — were not confirmed in this research pass, and the only source located is a local podcast's episode description (an interview in which Cuddy himself appeared). Craig Needles Podcast ↗

Our questionnaire QUESTIONS GOING OUT

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

WEBSITE ↗EMAIL PHONE

Ben Durham

Video production company owner raised in London and a Huron Heights resident since 2020, serving on community boards including the Old North East Neighbourhood Association; a first-time candidate whose public track record is civic blogging and data work, including an independently built accessible map of the new 2026 ward boundaries.

SPECIFICITY0 concrete proposals · 4 aspirational themes

PLATFORM, RECORD & CONTACT▾

Platform — WHAT THEY SAY

Traffic & Safety — "Traffic is getting worse. Solutions exist, so let's implement them ASAP." — pillar statement; his blog shows granular, dated engagement with named Ward 3 intersections and files campaign site ↗
Communication — "Better comms from both the City of London and Council: no more surprises."
Fiscal Responsibility — "Your taxes should work for you. Let's plug the leaks."
Housing — "Our neighbours are falling through the cracks of the system… But there are solutions."

NOTES

His stated residence (Huron Heights, in the current Ward 3) is an area this research suggests may shift into the new Ward 4 for 2026. Council candidates in Ontario are not required to live in the ward they run in, so this is not disqualifying, but some of the neighbourhood advocacy he campaigns from may fall to the new Ward 4 councillor instead.

Our questionnaire QUESTIONS GOING OUT

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

WEBSITE ↗EMAIL PHONE

Harkirat Kaur

Frontline support worker and nursing student, also known as "Hanna," who immigrated to Canada in 2010 as an international student and moved to London in 2021, where she bought her first home; a first-time candidate who describes herself as "not a career politician."

SPECIFICITY0 concrete proposals · 3 aspirational themes

PLATFORM, RECORD & CONTACT▾

Platform — WHAT THEY SAY

Affordable Living — addressing rising costs and housing accessibility. — theme, no mechanism given campaign site ↗
Safer Communities — neighbourhood safety and community support systems. — theme, no mechanism given
Stronger Services — healthcare, mental health support, and improved local services. — theme, no mechanism given

NOTES

No news coverage of her candidacy was located beyond the City's official candidate list as of the research date; her profile draws on her own campaign site.

Her campaign site (voteharkirat.ca) loaded during the July 2 research pass but returned a "404 Not Found" page on a July 3 recheck, with and without "www". The platform themes shown here were captured while the site was live and could not be re-verified; the site remains her officially listed campaign website and may return.

Her Facebook page was reviewed by human check on July 4, 2026: no campaign content was visible there either. With her website returning 404 since July 3, no live campaign presence could be located at last check — stated as a gap, not a judgment; re-check before the August 21 nomination deadline.

Our questionnaire QUESTIONS GOING OUT

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

WEBSITE ↗EMAIL PHONE FACEBOOK ↗

Leroy Osbourne

Sitting Thames Valley District School Board trustee for Wards 2–6, first elected in 2022, with a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counselling, an MBA in progress, and a background as a counsellor and student affairs administrator; his stated trustee priorities have centred on equity, inclusion, and diversity for marginalized students.

SPECIFICITY4 concrete proposals · 0 aspirational themes

PLATFORM, RECORD & CONTACT▾

Platform — WHAT THEY SAY

Housing — two named homeownership pathways: a "Save-As-You-Rent" program that builds a down payment while renting at market rate, and a Tiny Home Community Land Trust offering ownership at below-market prices, which he says "won't touch your property taxes." — program models named; no costings, unit counts, or city-budget mechanism published campaign site ↗
Transit & traffic — adaptive traffic signals that adjust in real time plus on-demand electric micro-transit shuttles running door-to-hub, which his site says would cut wait times "by up to 40%," with secure storage at transit hubs. — the 40% figure is candidate-stated and was not independently verified
Homelessness — a Housing First response: stabilize individuals in 24/7 triage centres, then move them into managed modular shelter housing with comprehensive support; his site cites a claim that every $10 spent on Housing First models saves $21.72 in emergency-service costs. — the $10-to-$21.72 ratio is candidate-cited; the underlying study was not identified or verified in this pass campaign site — homelessness approach ↗
Infrastructure — use AI cameras and predictive-maintenance software to catch infrastructure problems before they become emergencies, citing "two major collapses on Highbury Avenue in four months." — the collapse count is candidate-stated and was not independently verified

NOTES

He is running for council while a sitting TVDSB trustee; his site's "What I Learned at the School Board" page describes his trustee term as 2022–2026, and school-board seats are on the same October 26, 2026 ballot, so the roles would not overlap beyond this term. campaign site — school board page ↗

The July 2 pass could extract only three headline priorities from his site; on July 3 the site (rebuilt as a script-rendered app) was fully readable and his platform entry now reflects it. His platform figures — the 40% wait-time reduction, the $10-to-$21.72 Housing First savings ratio, and two Highbury Avenue collapses in four months — are stated on his campaign site and were not independently verified.

Our questionnaire QUESTIONS GOING OUT

Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.

WEBSITE ↗EMAIL PHONE

Compare side-by-side ▾

	CUDDY	DURHAM	KAUR	OSBOURNE
SPECIFICITY	Platform image-only (2022 pillars graphic); no readable 2026 platform	0 concrete · 4 aspirational	0 concrete · 3 aspirational (site offline at July 3 recheck)	4 concrete · 0 aspirational (figures candidate-stated)
HELD OFFICE	Ward 3 councillor, 2022–2026; TVDSB vice-chair, 2018–2022	None	None	TVDSB trustee (Wards 2–6), 2022–present
ON GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT	Opposed the 1470–1474 Highbury towers at committee: "not responsible... not sustainable"	Published a detailed explainer on the Highbury towers file; platform urges implementing traffic-safety solutions "ASAP"	No position published	Proposes Save-As-You-Rent and a Tiny Home Community Land Trust for homeownership; AI-adaptive signals and on-demand micro-transit; AI predictive maintenance for infrastructure
QUESTIONNAIRE	Not yet sent	Not yet sent	Not yet sent	Not yet sent

Same rows for every candidate. “No position published” is information too.

The race

Four candidates were on the City's official (not-yet-certified) list as of June 30, 2026: incumbent Peter Cuddy plus three challengers — Ben Durham, Harkirat Kaur, and Leroy Osbourne. The nomination period is open until August 21, 2026, so the field could grow. This is a contested incumbent race, not an acclamation or an open seat.

Cuddy enters the race a well-known incumbent. He has a documented constructive record: the Family Centre Huron Heights child-care opening in May 2025, park and sidewalk files, and opposition to the Highbury towers. He also carries three roughly contemporaneous early-2025 controversies: removal from the library board for missed meetings; a viral, vulgar confrontation with a process server that the Integrity Commissioner declined to formally investigate; and a derailed Progressive Conservative nomination bid. None of the three rises to a formal misconduct finding against him — a factual distinction worth keeping straight.

The three challengers are running very different campaigns. Durham has the deepest local paper trail: active blogging on named intersections and the Highbury towers file, an independently built ward-boundary map, and ties to existing Huron Heights-area civic groups.

Osbourne holds elected office now, as a TVDSB trustee, and as of the July 3 read of his rebuilt campaign site he has the field's most mechanism-specific published platform (Save-As-You-Rent homeownership, a Tiny Home land trust, AI-adaptive traffic signals, Housing First triage centres) — with the caveat that its figures are candidate-stated. He also carries a live storyline of his own: the province placed TVDSB under supervision in April 2025, stripping trustees of decision-making power, and Osbourne has publicly challenged the takeover, saying trustees are being "scapegoated to distract from lack of provincial funding."

Kaur is a first-time candidate running on general affordability, safety, and services themes, without yet a detailed platform or news footprint — and her campaign site was offline at the July 3 recheck. One ward-specific wrinkle: because the new boundary shifts away from the Huron Heights core, some of the civic geography that Cuddy and Durham campaign from may not fully match the ward they would represent after November 15, 2026.

Before you go

The rest is showing up

You’ve read the ward. Ward races here can come down to a few hundred ballots, sometimes fewer. In a race that close, your vote is one of the ones that decides it. You don’t need to know everything. You just need to show up, informed.

How to vote in Ward 3

ADVANCE

Oct 1

ADVANCE

Oct 3

ADVANCE

Oct 5–10

ELECTION DAY

Oct 26 · 10 am – 8 pm

You’ll need ID with your name and address. Full voting guide — where, what to bring, who can vote →

WHAT WE COULDN’T CONFIRM YET ▾

The new Ward 3 street-level boundary is not confirmed from a primary map; which named neighbourhoods fall in new Ward 3 versus new Ward 4 should be checked against the city's interactive ward map before relying on boundary claims.
Recreation and community-facility capacity in growth-area neighbourhoods (e.g., Stoney Creek) was flagged as a plausible pressure point but not confirmed as an active council file, so it is not listed as a ward issue here.
Peter Cuddy's "My Promises To You" graphic was re-examined July 3: the live image file is named "Cuddy_Pillars_2022.png" (September 2022 upload timestamp), so the promises displayed appear to be his 2022 pillars; no readable 2026 platform text was found anywhere on the site. petercuddy.ca also has a TLS certificate covering only the www hostname — links here use https://www.petercuddy.ca.
The subject matter of the lawsuit behind the January 2025 process-server confrontation, and any connection to Cuddy's derailed PC nomination bid, were not confirmed; no source found explicitly connects the two events and no causal link is asserted.
Whether Cuddy's PC nomination bid was for the provincial or federal London-Fanshawe riding was not disambiguated.
RESOLVED July 3: Leroy Osbourne's rebuilt campaign site is fully readable (it is script-rendered); his platform entry now reflects it, replacing the three bare headline priorities from July 2. His site's media page lists coverage of his candidacy filing, but those articles were not independently pulled in this pass.
Harkirat Kaur's campaign site (voteharkirat.ca) returned a 404 on the July 3 recheck after loading on July 2; her platform themes could not be re-verified and her entry notes this.
No independent news profiles of Kaur's or Osbourne's municipal candidacies were located; their entries rely on their own campaign sites (plus Osbourne's separate trustee-related coverage).
Several CBC and CTV articles could not be fetched directly; facts drawn from them come from search-engine snippets and secondary summaries.
Whether the developer has appealed the committee's rejection of the 1470–1474 Highbury Avenue North towers to the Ontario Land Tribunal was not checked.
Some cautions and honest-numbers claims on this page are not yet tied to a linked primary source; they are pending primary-link verification before final publish.