- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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