Northeast London: Fanshawe College area · Kilally corridor · Stoney Creek · north of Fanshawe Park Road
Six candidates: first-term incumbent Peter Cuddy faces five challengers. Nominations closed August 21, 2026; the City certified the list on August 24. The race is about growth in the northeast, with the Kilally corridor now split with Ward 4 by the new boundary and what Fanshawe College's enrolment shock means for the neighbourhoods around campus. The ward's boundaries were redrawn for this election: areas north of Fanshawe Park Road join Ward 3, while most of the Huron Heights core moves to Ward 4.
Two candidates carry a prior election record. Peter Cuddy, the incumbent, was elected Ward 3 councillor in 2022 with 1,433 votes (36.17%) of five candidates, per the City's certified results. Leroy Osbourne, the sitting TVDSB trustee for Wards 2-6, was elected in 2022 with 5,142 votes (19.53%), the second of two seats, per the City's certified results.
The rest of the field, in alphabetical order: Ben Durham, Harkirat Kaur, Riya Philip, and Zak Rahim.
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Elected Ward 3 councillor in 2022: 1,433 votes (36.17%) of five candidates, per the City's certified results.
Sent out September 3, 2026. Answers are posted here word for word when they arrive. Anything back within a week goes up September 10.
Sent out September 3, 2026. Answers are posted here word for word when they arrive. Anything back within a week goes up September 10.
Sent out September 3, 2026. Answers are posted here word for word when they arrive. Anything back within a week goes up September 10.
Elected Thames Valley trustee for Wards 2-6 in 2022: 5,142 votes (19.53%), the second of two seats, per the City's certified results.
Received September 27, 2026 · updated September 27, 2026
What is the one thing you most want to have changed in London by the end of this term? Tell us what a resident would be able to see in 2030 that shows you did it, and what you would be willing to give up to get it.
“I would like to see that we truly made significant strides in homelessness. My proposal to setup a modern day psychiatric hospital space aka a mental health village, on light commercial zoned land on the outskirts, with micro shelters, a HART hub and intensive housing in one space to truly start giving the unhoused an authentic and comprehensive plan to find purpose and real help to get back on their feet again. The downtown plan for the first five years would be what I would give up.”
A councillor is one vote of fifteen, and staff write the reports council votes on. Tell us about a time, in any part of your life, when you needed a decision from people who mostly disagreed with you and got it. Who did you have to bring around, what did you change in your ask, and what did you give up?
“I have performed that dynamic in different spaces from being part of a workplace negotiation team, a school board trustee and now at the doors of voters who have a competing ward candidate sign on their lawn. For job contract negotiations. We ask for the moon based on what we think could be achievable. Knowing beforehand, what are non-negotiable items, to items that are open to compromise, to making asks that could be throwaways. The opposing party has three negotiators; I was tasked with research for our side. I also went to the negotiations to observe and take note of the opposing team dynamics. Who was the pragmatic, who could be the softie, who was the hardliner and what their MO around that. We tended to need to bring around the CFO and be mindful of the total compensation package to see what could be decreased in the lower-priority pile to ensure we got the high-priority and possibly more expensive items that the membership would want. For the 'bring around' sometimes that would require letting go of outdated costly entitlements to get benefits that would help 90% of the membership. It was typically trying to strive for a win-win and in other cases, holding the line on issues of principle or matters that would create morality issues or trust issues if the compromise was allowed to leave the negotiation room.”
Name one thing the people you'd represent will ask you for that city council cannot actually decide. Say plainly what you would tell them, who does hold that decision, and what you would do to move it anyway.
“Aspects of affordability. There are variables or a spectrum of concerns in that area that is not municipal. From gas prices, to interest rates, to food costs. Higher level of government hold the keys and responsibility for some of the things I have mentioned. What I would move would be lessening the burden on Londoners through having the city invest in better financial products that large pension plans participate in now that municipalities can now. Look at ways for the City to have income-producing assets. Lobby the provincial to reimburse the City on initiatives that decrease hospital says and EMS calls. I would look at way that are within the control of the city to change how the City does busy and put less burden on Londoners via properties taxes, to subsidizing more services from these new income sources to bring relief.”
Pick the issue you most want to be known for. Where do you feel torn on it, and what is the strongest argument against your own position?
“Bringing about a modern-day psychiatric hospital model which provides stabilization communities for the homeless, will have a HART Hub and an intensive housing building all on one site. I am torn between allocating resources to address this and not being able to purse affordable first time homeownership. My strongest argument against my position, is we do not know if the provincial government will one day stop providing financial support for HART hubs in turn creating a tremendous financial burden on the city.”
Point us to one thing you have already done for people in London, before this campaign, that a reader could check and that shows how you would do this job. A web address is welcome.
“As TVDSB Trustee, I was the lead policy writer for the School Council Policy and procedure. I expanded and articulated the purview of school councils to ensure they knew their power, authority and involvement at the school level and that they were given orientation on important aspects like reporting bullying in their school, understanding the complaint process, understanding the strategic plan and knowing how to make recommendations to the Board of Trustees just to name a few. I also orchestrated what the principal was now required to consult with school councils about as per the school council procedures. My work and engagement in this instance was to ensure that parents were empowered to get involved in their child's school and be able to have a path to their elected official at the Board level. School Councils Policy | Thames Valley District School Board https://www.tvdsb.ca/media-manager/media-pages/policies-and-procedures/school-councils-procedure/”
Sent out September 3, 2026. Answers are posted here word for word when they arrive. Anything back within a week goes up September 10.
Sent out September 3, 2026. Answers are posted here word for word when they arrive. Anything back within a week goes up September 10.
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Under the boundaries council approved in December 2024, Fanshawe College's main campus sits in Ward 3, per the City's official boundary data. The college is in a documented enrolment shock: it projected roughly 5,000 fewer international students for 2025-26 under the federal permit cap, suspended future intakes for 40 programs while cutting staffing by about 35%, and is leaving its south London campus. The permit caps are federal and college funding is provincial, so a councillor can't fix Fanshawe's budget. What the city does control is the neighbourhoods around campus: rental licensing under by-law CP-19, property-standards enforcement, and transit service to the campus.
About 5,000 fewer international students projected for 2025-26; future intakes suspended for 40 programs; staffing cut by roughly 35% (about 400 full-time positions). CBC London (program cuts) ↗
Fanshawe's enrolment drop is driven from Ottawa and Queen's Park. What would you actually do with the city's own levers, rental licensing, property standards, transit, for the neighbourhoods around campus?
Ward 3's best-known growth fights sit right on its new edge. The three-tower proposal at 1470-1474 Highbury Avenue North (402 units, rejected by the Planning and Environment Committee in 2025 after staff cited groundwater and setback concerns) is on the Ward 4 side of the 2026 boundary, per the City's official boundary data, and as of August 2, 2026 we could not confirm whether the refusal was appealed. The Kilally Infrastructure Project rebuilding the road from Webster Street to Clarke Road runs through both wards: construction is staged into 2028, and the JW Carson Bridge closure on Clarke Road (July 13 to August 14, 2026) is part of the same growth work. Whoever wins Ward 3 and Ward 4 will inherit this corridor together.
Construction is planned in stages: Webster-Sandford (2026), Sandford-Clarke (2027), surface work and cleanup (2028). City of London (Get Involved) ↗
Which specific sites on the ward's stretch of the Kilally corridor should take high-density growth, and how would you work with the Ward 4 councillor on the shared road work?
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 2025 population estimate for the then-current Ward 3 was 27,299, the smallest ward population cited in the boundary review's example table.
Which neighbourhoods that are new to Ward 3 will you visit first, and when?
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.
Roughly $385 million citywide in 2026; no Ward 3-specific project list confirmed.
Which sidewalk and cycling connections inside the new Ward 3 would you push to fund first?
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