- 1. Housing the homeless: the case against Tom "not in my patch" Mraka
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- ... The Mayor, Tom Mrakas, voted against the proposal and the new shelter - which had been in the works for years - was rejected by Aurora Council 4-3. In an on-line post the day after the vote, Mrakas ...
- Created on 13 April 2024
- 2. Allow municipalities to build new homes for people in housing need says Richmond Hill’s Joe DiPaola
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- ... of the Regional Council thought of Joe DiPaola’s thought-provoking contribution. But this was Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti's veiled rebuke: “We, the Region and our local municipalities, are absolutely ...
- Created on 07 April 2024
- 3. Building on the Greenbelt: What happened on 24 January 2023?
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- ... to memory. Mayor Steve Pellegrini, who fabricates, presides. King’s Chief Administrative Officer, Daniel Kostopoulos, is there too with Southlake’s Chief Executive, Arden Krystal, and the hospital’s ...
- Created on 05 April 2024
- 4. 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
- 5. The Greenbelt Scandal and Southlake’s search for a new acute hospital site
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- ... offered their own lands in the protected Greenbelt west of Bathurst in King as the location of a new acute hospital. The Mayor of King, Steve Pellegrini, was a key intermediary between Southlake and ...
- Created on 24 February 2024
- 6. Tom Mrakas and Emergency Housing
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- It is difficult not to feel disappointed with Aurora Mayor Tom Mrakas who, last week, voted against York Region’s proposed 55-unit transitional housing/ emergency shelter for men at 14452 Yonge Street. ...
- Created on 19 February 2024
- 7. Frank Scarpitti and his dreams of a Mega City
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- Last month, Markham's Mayor, Frank Scarpitti, told MPPs he wants to see all nine lower tier municipalities in York Region abolished – Newmarket included. In their place he wants a new mega-city, presumably ...
- Created on 10 February 2024
- 8. Southlake and the Greenbelt: John Dunlap declared a Conflict of Interest
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- ... Dunlap had told King Mayor, Steve Pellegrini, two years earlier that he was minded to gift land to Southlake for a new hospital. Dunlap and Rice have both stated - each independently of the other - ...
- Created on 13 January 2024
- 9. The Greenbelt Scandal: Michael Rice, John Dunlap, Steve Pellegrini and the new Southlake
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- ... King Mayor, Steve Pellegrini, who cannot always be relied upon to tell the truth, knew from at least the second week of March 2020 that the wealthy King landowner and Southlake Board member, John Dunlap, ...
- Created on 29 December 2023
- 10. Former Southlake Board Member and Land Agent, John Dunlap, offered Greenbelt land for new hospital
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- ... letter to King Mayor Steve Pellegrini on 20 July 2020 Dunlap wrote: “Further to our discussion, my family would be interested in donating land to create a new site for Southlake Regional Hospital. Our ...
- Created on 23 December 2023