- 1. Di Muccio's husband wants Jack Zwicker to be trial judge in defamation action against John Taylo
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- 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
- 2. Di Muccio drops libel action against John Taylor
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- 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
- 3. No Land Swap for the moment says John Taylor
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- 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
- 4. John Heckbert spit-roasted
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- 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
- 5. Maddie Di Muccio libel action against John Taylor could be out of time.
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- 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
- 6. Failed council candidates Di Muccio and Blommesteyn use libel and campaign financing laws to harry their quarry, John Taylor
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- ... 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
- 7. Maddie Di Muccio’s libel action claims John Taylor made her “a target of ridicule, hatred and/or contempt of others”
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- 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
- 8. John Blommesteyn defending the indefensible
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- 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
- 9. Newmarket’s Code of Conduct: the strange case of John Blommesteyn
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- 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
- 10. John Alexander Blommesteyn and the company he keeps
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- 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
- 11. John Blommesteyn and integrity
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- 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
- 12. John Taylor says no to campaign cash from developers
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- 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
- 13. Misogyny, Maddie Di Muccio and John Blommestyn
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- 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
- 14. Newmarket Town Hall Watch and John Blommesteyn
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- 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
- 15. Housing the homeless: the case against Tom "not in my patch" Mraka
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- ... by trained and qualified staff – then that’s good enough for him. The homeless men have gotta go somewhere else. Dodging At last week’s meeting, Mrakas dodged questions from Newmarket’s John Taylor. ...
- Created on 13 April 2024
- 16. Allow municipalities to build new homes for people in housing need says Richmond Hill’s Joe DiPaola
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- ... Whole on 7 March 2024 in a debate on homelessness DiPaola joined Newmarket’s John Taylor in calling for vigorous action to tackle the crisis in housing affordability and the relentless rise in homelessness. ...
- Created on 07 April 2024
- 17. Building on the Greenbelt: What happened on 24 January 2023?
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- ... Vice President of Capital Facilities, John Marshman. Who said what to whom remains a complete mystery. Records unnecessary Arden Krystal believes there are many instances where record keeping is ...
- Created on 05 April 2024
- 18. Southlake struggling to find a new site for its acute hospital complex
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- ... President of Capital Facilities, John Marshman and King’s Mayor, Steve Pellegrini. King and Southlake insist to this day they have no records of the meeting. It defies belief there are no records of ...
- Created on 27 March 2024
- 19. Aurora Mayor Tom Mrakas wants to house homeless men in York Region’s underused HQ
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- The Mayor of Aurora Tom Mrakas believes in “leadership that gets things done”. Except, I suppose, when it comes to providing shelter for homeless men. On Thursday, at York Region’s Committee of the ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 20. The Greenbelt Scandal, a new hospital and Southlake's "known opportunitie
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- ... else. No need to take notes Southlake’s former Chief Executive, Arden Krystal, who was there with the hospital’s Director of Capital and Facilities, John Marshman (photo below right), said it was ...
- Created on 03 March 2024
- 21. The Greenbelt Scandal and Southlake’s search for a new acute hospital site
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- It has taken over a year to establish in broad outline what happened when Michael Rice and John Dunlap offered land in the protected Greenbelt to Southlake for a new acute hospital. On 4 November 2022 ...
- Created on 24 February 2024
- 22. Tom Mrakas and Emergency Housing
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- ... didn’t raise any objections. "One of the best sites" In the run up to the 13 February 2024 meeting Newmarket Mayor John Taylor - who also chairs Housing York - told Newmarket Today: "The current site ...
- Created on 19 February 2024
- 23. We have a Government that stifles debate, ignores rules, trashes conventions and breaks the law. What is to be done?
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- ... consult people before legislating. (Photo: Boris Johnson - on his money-making speaking circuit - jokes with fellow Conservative Paul Calandra at last week's Realtor's Conference.) No meaningful consultatio ...
- Created on 06 December 2023
- 24. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Understanding what really happened and why
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- ... capital and facilities chief, John Marshman, eight months earlier in January 2022 suggesting they had land which might be suitable for a new hospital. We know from his evidence to the Integrity Commissioner ...
- Created on 30 November 2023
- 25. A Second Southlake in King: the “Bathurst and Davis Drive Opportunity”
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- On 16 January 2023 Southlake convened a site selection meeting to review the “Bathurst and Davis Dr Opportunity”. (see graphic right) The meeting considered the land requirements for the hospital complex ...
- Created on 17 November 2023
- 26. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Why don't they just ask him
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- ... stake - I find it astonishing that no-one on King Council has apparently asked Pellegrini who the mystery landowner is. Why don’t they just ask him? John Dunlap I’ve long believed the mystery man is ...
- Created on 07 November 2023
- 27. The Sophistry of Doug Ford
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- ... I've found this a reliable rule of thumb over the years." He was writing about the damagingly incompetent and chaotic premiership of Boris Johnson. But his words could equally apply to Doug Ford, a ...
- Created on 04 November 2023
- 28. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Developer Michael Rice makes no mention of a second Southlake when asking for Bathurst lands to be removed from the Greenbelt
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- ... the case, the lands are owned by John Dunlap, the land agent who facilitated the sale of the Bathurst lands from Bob Schickedanz to Michael Rice. As you know, at the time of the sale Mr Dunlap was a member ...
- Created on 30 October 2023
- 29. The Greenbelt Scandal: Chief Executive explains why Southlake has no records of the meeting when developer Michael Rice gifted land for a new hospital
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- ... Arden Krystal says that neither she nor the Vice President of Capital, Facilities and Business Development, John Marshman, (who was also present at the 1 November 2022 meeting) had ever met Michael Rice ...
- Created on 29 October 2023
- 30. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Decision on naming mystery landowner who "brought forward idea of donating lands" for a new Southlake will be made by King Township on 6 November 202
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- ... landowners” have now morphed into a discussion with a single landowner. My hunch is that the "other landowner" is John Dunlap, the former member of Southlake Board who was the land agent who facilitated ...
- Created on 28 October 2023
- 31. The Greenbelt Scandal: Why the RCMP should interview Steve Pellegrini under caution
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- ... and who was involved in the discussions. And who was the other party? Was it John Dunlap, the (now former) Southlake Board Member, landowner and land agent who facilitated the sale of the Greenbelt lands ...
- Created on 12 October 2023