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1. Clock Tower: John Taylor exchanges with Staff 5 December 2016 and details of the vote: (Category); Created on 06 December 2016
2. Clock Tower: John Taylor exchanges with Staff 5 December 2016 and details of the vote: (Category); Created on 06 December 2016
3. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Southlake says it has no record of any offer by Board Member John Dunlap to donate land in the Protected Greenbelt for a new hospital: (Blog); ... meeting on 1 November 2022 included the graphic (right) showing the Rice lands coloured yellow. The Southlake logo straddles his land and the land immediately to the south owned by John Dunlap. He was ...; Created on 17 June 2024
4. Southlake and the Greenbelt: John Dunlap declared a Conflict of Interest: (Blog); Former Southlake Board member and King landowner John Dunlap declared a conflict of interest at the Southlake Board meeting on 22 September 2022 before resigning from the Board. The closed session minutes ...; Created on 13 January 2024
5. The Greenbelt Scandal: Michael Rice, John Dunlap, Steve Pellegrini and the new Southlake: (Blog); ... a new hospital. At no point did he say his immediate neighbour to the south, John Dunlap, was also minded to gift land for precisely the same purpose. I would have thought this relevant. Pellegrini knew ...; Created on 29 December 2023
6. Former Southlake Board Member and Land Agent, John Dunlap, offered Greenbelt land for new hospital: (Blog); JHct-N1iJi4 John Dunlap, the former Southlake Board member and land agent, is revealed as the mystery landowner who offered his own land at Bathurst and Davis Drive West as the site of a new acute hospital. ...; Created on 23 December 2023
7. Greenbelt Scandal (cont'd): Susan McGovern, John McGovern and Michael Ric: (Blog); ... at Bathurst in King for $80M and is the spouse of John McGovern, the Rice Group’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Planning. Nothing prepared me for this. I now realise the developers' tentacles ...; Created on 09 September 2023
8. Selling the Greenbelt: Southlake Board Member John Dunlap met Mayor Steve Pellegrini to discuss the possible location of a new hospital in King: (Blog); King landowner and former Southlake Board member John Dunlap met King Mayor Steve Pellegrini to discuss the possible location of a new acute hospital in the municipality. I do not know when this meeting ...; Created on 11 July 2023
9. Boris Johnson. Gone for Good: (Blog); Tomorrow (Monday 19 June 2023) the UK House of Commons will vote on a report from the Committee of Privileges which documents in fine detail how Boris Johnson, Prime Minister during the Covid pandemic, ...; Created on 18 June 2023
10. Selling the Greenbelt: The New Southlake was planned to be built on Greenbelt land in King owned by developer Michael Rice and former hospital Board member John Dunlap: (Blog); ... It was planned to straddle Greenbelt land owned by Rice and John Dunlap. The format of the meeting was agreed beforehand by King CAO Daniel Kostopolous and John McGovern, the Senior Vice President (Policy ...; Created on 27 April 2023
11. Why did Doug Ford give John Taylor a public dressing down?: (Blog); At a press conference in Oakville on 22 March 2023 Doug Ford singled out Newmarket Mayor John Taylor for criticism. But why? Ford was talking about the need for more homes when he branded Taylor an ...; Created on 25 March 2023
12. Greenbelt land broker, John Dunlap, owns land next to Michael Rice’s $80M purchase: (Blog); John Dunlap, the estate agent who acted for Bob Schickedanz in the sale of 687 acres of Greenbelt land west of Bathurst on 15 September 2022, owns land immediately adjacent to the land he just sold. In ...; Created on 02 February 2023
13. "Only about 12% of voters have cast their ballot" - Mayor John Taylo: (Blog); Newmarket’s Mayor, John Taylor, tells us that, as of this morning, Saturday, only 12% of voters have cast their ballot. Personally, I don’t blame the voters. I blame the system. I agree with Nam Kiwanuka ...; Created on 22 October 2022
14. Boris Johnson will be gone in six months: (Blog); Boris Johnson is an inveterate liar. The people who know him best will testify to that. Fellow journalists from opposite ends of the political spectrum like the former Telegraph editor Max Hastings ...; Created on 07 June 2022
15. Boris Johnson will be fine says fraudster Conrad Black: (Blog); The convicted fraudster, Conrad Black, has been rooting for Boris Johnson in the latter’s quest to become Britain’s next Prime Minister. It is easy to see why. They both display a casual disregard for ...; Created on 23 July 2019
16. John Taylor and Markham's Frank Scarpitti clash over new GO Rail stations ...: (Blog); ... committed to a new library” Vegh. He joins the Town’s Mayor, John Taylor, but sits directly opposite him in the hemicycle, thirty feet away. Tom tells us he is interested in the proposed 400-404 link road ...; Created on 09 January 2019
17. Newmarket Mayoral hopeful, John Taylor, confronts the Town’s spending watchdog.: (Blog); Tomorrow, Mayoral favourite John Taylor enters the lion’s den. Audience is underwhelmed. Photo: NewmarketToday. He will be addressing the Newmarket Taxpayers Advocacy Group (NTAG) faithful, ...; Created on 02 October 2018
18. John Bogart House (built 1811) to be removed: (Blog); ... home would be preserved and restored and physically moved “southerly to the corner of Leslie Street and Bogart Mill Trail”. John Bogart House Constructed in 1811 for John Bogart, a Quaker pioneer ...; Created on 06 February 2018
19. Former Newmarket Councillor, Maddie Di Muccio, loses defamation action against Regional Councillor John Taylor: (Blog); Maddie Di Muccio's defamation action against John Taylor has been dismissed by the Small Claims Court in Newmarket. Di Muccio had also claimed $5,000 for damage to her reputation. The Judge, Paul Kupferstein, ...; Created on 28 August 2017
20. John "I feel your pain" Taylor and the King George School Developmen: (Blog); I take it as an incontestable fact that if John Taylor lived in the beautiful historic house at 182 Church Street a block of townhouses would not be built 7' 5" away from his bedroom window. Taylor ...; Created on 14 May 2017
21. John4Newmarket: (Blog); I promised myself not to feel sorry for them but, increasingly, I do. I noted three years ago they were made for each other. They see swirling conspiracies everywhere. People are out to frame ...; Created on 01 February 2017
22. Di Muccio's husband wants Jack Zwicker to be trial judge in defamation action against John Taylo: (Blog); To the Small Claims Court in Eagle Street to hear Matilde Di Muccio's ludicrous action for defamation against Regional Councillor John Taylor. Her husband, John Blommesteyn, wants Jack Zwicker to be the ...; Created on 07 December 2016
23. Di Muccio drops libel action against John Taylor: (Blog); The tormented former Newmarket councillor, Maddie Di Muccio, has dropped her libel action against Regional Councillor John Taylor. But her husband, John Blommesteyn, on her behalf, served a new amended ...; Created on 24 October 2016
24. No Land Swap for the moment says John Taylor: (Blog); Newmarket Regional Councillor John Taylor tells us no land will be sold or transferred in relation to the Clock Tower site “unless in relation to a Council approved and endorsed development and only after ...; Created on 26 April 2016
25. John Heckbert spit-roasted: (Blog); At the end of this week’s Committee of the Whole (22 February) I approach John Heckbert who has just taken a deputation to Mulock Drive to lecture councillors on social media and to tell them why they ...; Created on 25 February 2016
26. Maddie Di Muccio libel action against John Taylor could be out of time.: (Blog); The trial was due to take place today (4 September 2015) in the Small Claims Court in Newmarket but was abruptly rescheduled by the trial judge to 15 October. His reasons were not given in open court. ...; Created on 04 September 2015
27. Failed council candidates Di Muccio and Blommesteyn use libel and campaign financing laws to harry their quarry, John Taylor: (Blog); ... imagine the fragile and notoriously litigious former Newmarket councillor, Maddie Di Muccio, saying anything remotely generous about regional councillor John Taylor. She hates him, perhaps even more so ...; Created on 13 July 2015
28. Maddie Di Muccio’s libel action claims John Taylor made her “a target of ridicule, hatred and/or contempt of others”: (Blog); On Monday 15 June 2015 the attention seeking former councilor, Maddie Di Muccio, tweets: Maddie Di Muccio ‏@MaddieDiMuccio Jun 15 Today I served court papers to Newmarket reg clr @_JohnTaylor for ...; Created on 17 June 2015
29. John Blommesteyn defending the indefensible: (Blog); There was a time not so long ago when John Blommesteyn would bring a deputation to Council neatly dressed in a dark suit and wearing a collar and tie. Yesterday, I observe a hot and sweaty John Blommesteyn ...; Created on 16 June 2015
30. Newmarket’s Code of Conduct: the strange case of John Blommesteyn: (Blog); I arrive in the Council Chamber for the Canada Post presentation. As I enter I see the large bulky form that is John Blommesteyn who is here to complain about the behaviour of Regional Councillor John ...; Created on 23 February 2015
31. John Alexander Blommesteyn and the company he keeps: (Blog); Ward 7 hopeful, John Alexander Blommesteyn, is the sole Director of the company, 7656092 Canada Inc which was incorporated on 22 September 2010. Interestingly, I see from the Corporations Canada ...; Created on 26 October 2014
32. John Blommesteyn and integrity: (Blog); John Blommesteyn, the wannabe councillor for Ward 7, has been parading his virtues in front of a sceptical public. Blommesteyn, who is married to the mercurial Maddie Di Muccio, tells us it takes integrity ...; Created on 20 October 2014
33. John Taylor says no to campaign cash from developers: (Blog); Regional Councillor, John Taylor, says he will not accept campaign contributions from developers and hopes all candidates running for election in Newmarket will do the same. Taylor tells me: “I’ve never ...; Created on 27 January 2014
34. Misogyny, Maddie Di Muccio and John Blommestyn: (Blog); Having sat through today's committee of the whole I have concluded that John Blommestyn and Maddie Di Muccio are made for each other. He is angry, argumentative and belligerent. He expects special treatment. ...; Created on 09 December 2013
35. Newmarket Town Hall Watch and John Blommesteyn: (Blog); I see that Newmarket Town Hall Watch is authored by Councillor Maddie Di Muccio's husband, John Blommesteyn. How curious. In a post dated 26 November on Glenway he confides he was disappointed with ...; Created on 07 December 2013
36. The Greenbelt Scandal: A Postscript on Southlake’s Acute Hospital at Bathurst that never got off the ground: (Blog); ... for John Dunlap’s land immediately to the south and adjacent to the Rice Block. As we know, only the Rice lands were removed from the Greenbelt. Dunlap was a member of the Southlake Board when his company ...; Created on 24 March 2026
37. The British War Dead in Afghanistan Defamed by Donald Trump: (Blog); ... Johnson, aged 38, from Collingham, Nottinghamshire, Flight Lieutenant Leigh Anthony Mitchelmore, aged 28, from Bournemouth, Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, aged 40, from Newquay, Cornwall, Flight ...; Created on 24 January 2026
38. Whatever happened to… the RCMP investigation into the Greenbelt scandal?: (Blog); 77Ck_L98qnE The RCMP investigation into the Ford Government’s Greenbelt scandal is now well into its third year. Why on earth is it taking so long? On 24 October 2025, the Toronto Star’s excellent ...; Created on 22 December 2025
39. The Conduct of Newmarket Public Library's Chief Executive, Tracy Munusam: (Blog); 83d16GcqgSs (Above: Darryl Gray (Chair) and Tracy Munusami (CEO) present the Library's "Report to the Community 2024" to Newmarket Councillors on 7 April 2025.) Next Wednesday, at 5.30pm on 17 December ...; Created on 10 December 2025
40. Terrific weather draws the crowds to Dawn Gallagher-Murphy's 4th taxpayer-funded BB: (Blog); Progressive Conservative MPP, Dawn Gallagher Murphy, celebrated her 4th Annual Taxpayer-funded BBQ yesterday at Riverwalk Commons in downtown Newmarket. It was a beautiful warm and sunny Sunday afternoon ...; Created on 29 September 2025
41. Who are the homeless in Newmarket?: (Blog); ... times change. The Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, Newmarket Mayor John Taylor, has been warning for years of an exponential growth in people experiencing homelessness. Noticeable increase ...; Created on 12 August 2025
42. The real Greenbelt Scandal: "When records are lost, destroyed, obfuscated, or never created in the first place...: (Blog); ... to memory and nothing was jotted down by the then Chief Executive, Arden Krystal. John Marshman, Southlake's Vice President of Capital and Facilities, who was also present on 1 November 2022, chaired ...; Created on 14 June 2025
43. Why doesn't the Town license Boarding Houses in Newmarket: (Blog); ... there are boarding houses out there, totally unregulated by the municipality. Zoning for People Newmarket’s Mayor, John Taylor, says the municipality doesn’t zone for people – they zone for uses. ...; Created on 18 May 2025
44. Bogus land valuation nets developer a multi-million dollar tax windfall: (Blog); rFhLUijWniM The former Glenway golf course lands in Newmarket were purchased by the developer Marianneville in 2010 for less than $10M. Since then, the old fairways are being progressively replaced by ...; Created on 03 May 2025
45. Democracy is the worst form of Government: (Blog); ... voters were swayed by Boris Johnson’s bogus claim that “We send the EU £350m a week: let’s fund our NHS instead” Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union committing the greatest self-inflicted ...; Created on 30 April 2025
46. Newmarket Public Library Report to the Community 2024: (Blog); Newmarket Public Library’s membership rocketed last year by an eye-watering 9,476 new members. We are told this was a 43.47% increase on 2023. These figures remind me of the old tractor production statistics ...; Created on 04 April 2025
47. The Federal election in Newmarket-Aurora is too close to call: (Blog); ... I recall Newmarket Mayor John Taylor demanding a debate in 2022 with Ford’s then Housing Minister, Steve Clark, who later presided over the Greenbelt scandal (and claimed ignorance of what was going on ...; Created on 26 March 2025
48. The Election in Newmarket Aurora: 10 days to go and time to consider tactical voting: (Blog); ... the Mayor of Newmarket, John Taylor, indicated he would attend the tour, which was meant to be confidential. Dawn Gallagher Murphy became agitated, incorrectly assuming I had disclosed the tour details. ...; Created on 17 February 2025
49. Glenway: a decade on: (Blog); A decade ago the residents of Glenway in the Town’s north west quadrant were battling to save their community from the developer, Marianneville, who planned to build over 700 new homes on the fairways ...; Created on 26 January 2025
50. Dawn Gallagher Murphy MPP: erratic, hostile and toxic says sacked office manager Teena Bogner: (Blog); An explosive story in this morning’s Newmarket Era paints Newmarket-Aurora’s Progressive Conservative MPP, Dawn Gallagher Murphy, as a strutting tyrant presiding over a toxic work environment. The exposé, ...; Created on 18 December 2024