Toronto Votes 2026: Scarborough Southwest council candidate Ariel-Rachel Karokis profile
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Local voters will cast their ballots on Monday, Oct. 26, in Toronto’s municipal election. Along with voting for mayor and school trustee, local voters will also be electing a new councillor for Ward 20 Scarborough Southwest.
There are eight candidates running for the council seat in Scarborough Southwest. For this Candidate Profile feature, Beach Metro Community News reached out to the candidates who we could find contact information for and asked them to send their profile and a photo in by a set deadline. We are only printing the profiles of those who responded by the deadline. The eight candidates registered to run for councillor in Scarborough Southwest in this month’s municipal election are Laikul Choudhury, Naser Kaid, Parthi Kandavel, Ariel-Rachel Karokis, Luigi Lisciandro, Sharmina Nasrin, Mohammad Ali Reza, and Kevin Rupasinghe.)
When you want change, you need to be the change. After years of consideration, I decided to finally run for City Council and become the change I’ve been wanting to see.
My name is Ariel-Rachel Karokis, I hold strong to my Christian Faith, I’m blessed to be the mother of three young little girls and to have the opportunity to raise them here in southwest Scarborough.
My background in Property Management and Development has given me the skills needed to keep a budget, stay on schedule, and to work well with others to accomplish our objectives.
Raising a family while the neighbourhoods around us are falling apart isn’t what I was planning. We need to build the streets, sidewalks, support our local businesses in this tough economic time, support and fund our Toronto police department. Crimes such as shootings, car thefts and home invasions are on all time highs.
Raising a family and trying to survive in this time and age has been difficult, and has only been getting harder. I will vote NO to tax increases. I will correct our spending, get the proper funding and investments we deserve, and build a stronger Scarborough for everyone.
