- 1. Di Muccio v Taylor
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- Created on 04 March 2016
- 2. Clock Tower: John Taylor exchanges with Staff 5 December 2016 and details of the vote
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- Created on 06 December 2016
- 3. Clock Tower: John Taylor exchanges with Staff 5 December 2016 and details of the vote
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- Created on 06 December 2016
- 4. Taylor says Del Duca's attack on York Region's planners is unnecessary, derogatory and inaccura
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- ... Paul Freeman. Del Duca suggested that the region’s planners were in “self-preservation” mode. Newmarket’s John Taylor said the comment was unnecessary, derogatory and inaccurate. Excellent. When ...
- Created on 29 June 2023
- 5. Why did Doug Ford give John Taylor a public dressing down?
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- 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
- 6. "Only about 12% of voters have cast their ballot" - Mayor John Taylo
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- 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
- 7. Vegh silent as Taylor makes the case for support for Inn from the Cold
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- Former Executive Director of Inn from the Cold, Tom Vegh, sat silent this morning at a meeting of York Regional Council as Mayor John Taylor called for $1M of emergency funding to avoid the homelessness ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 8. Taylor votes against York Region’s Official Plan and slams colleagues for undermining the entire planning process
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- Last Thursday, Newmarket Mayor John Taylor, voted against endorsing York Region's Official Plan (ROP) which guides development over the next 30 years. An angry Taylor said he had never voted against a ...
- Created on 19 June 2022
- 9. Stop the Bradford Bypass campaign gets powerful advocate in new MP, Leah Taylor Roy
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- The new MP for Aurora, Oak Ridges and Richmond Hill, Leah Taylor Roy, has spoken out against the Provincial Government’s plans to build the Bradford Bypass and Highway 413. Earlier this month she told ...
- Created on 12 December 2021
- 10. Protecting the Greenbelt: Taylor's Way or Vegh'
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- ... in a 15-5 vote with Newmarket’s Mayor and Regional Councillor on opposite sides of the argument. The Town’s Mayor, John Taylor, condemns the proposal – privately initiated by developers - which he claims ...
- Created on 25 October 2021
- 11. Taylor and Mrakas say local handgun bans are impractical. Newbie MP Van Bynen begs to differ.
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- ... In a front page story in today’s ERA newspaper Mayor John Taylor of Newmarket and Mayor Tom Mrakas of Aurora both reject the argument that municipalities should be responsible for bringing in a ban on ...
- Created on 24 March 2021
- 12. Taylor pushes (again) for the Direct Election of Chair of York Region
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- This Thursday (22 October 2020) Newmarket Mayor John Taylor will tell York Regional Council that it is time to have a Regional Chair that is directly elected by the voters. Ever since the Region was established ...
- Created on 19 October 2020
- 13. Taylor wants “full re-build” of unlawfully demolished Simpson building
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- Newmarket Mayor, John Taylor, has confirmed he wants to see a full rebuild of the Simpson building at 184-186 Main Street South which was unlawfully demolished on 9 October by developer Bob Forrest. Taylor ...
- Created on 07 November 2019
- 14. John Taylor and Markham's Frank Scarpitti clash over new GO Rail stations ...
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- ... 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
- 15. Taylor and Vegh rule out supporting Racco in his bid to become Chair of York Regional Council
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- Newmarket Mayor John Taylor and Regional Councillor Tom Vegh said yesterday they would not be voting for Mario Racco for Regional Chair if he throws his hat into the ring on Thursday evening. Mario ...
- Created on 04 December 2018
- 16. Professor Taylor coasting to an easy win
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- All the signs point to John Taylor coasting to an easy win over his conservative challenger for Mayor of Newmarket. Still, there’s many a slip twixt cup and lip and things may yet go wrong. Voters ...
- Created on 08 October 2018
- 17. Newmarket Mayoral hopeful, John Taylor, confronts the Town’s spending watchdog.
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- 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. Taylor launches campaign for Mayor of Newmarket
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- Mayoral hopeful, John Taylor, last night launched his election campaign to a crowd of happy-clappy supporters in the Royal Canadian Legion Hall on Srigley Street. I wander along to see what all ...
- Created on 19 July 2018
- 19. Former Newmarket Councillor, Maddie Di Muccio, loses defamation action against Regional Councillor John Taylor
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- 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
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- 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. Blair Taylor. In my dreams
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- Blair Taylor is a one term member of the Ontario Municipal Board. He was appointed in 2012 full-time and his term expires on 16 October 2017. Before joining the OMB Taylor was a senior Partner in the law ...
- Created on 05 May 2017
- 22. Di Muccio v Taylor: The End
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- The long running soap opera - Di Muccio v Taylor - mercifully splutters to a close tomorrow with speeches from Taylor and Blommesteyn. The latter has been researching the law of defamation for years and ...
- Created on 02 May 2017
- 23. Di Muccio v Taylor: Day 1 of the Trial
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- Yesterday, I sat through the first day of the trial at Newmarket's Small Claims Court. Former Newmarket Councillor Maddie Di Muccio is trying to extract $5,000 in damages from John Taylor for defamation ...
- Created on 11 February 2017
- 24. Di Muccio v Taylor. The Trial.
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- ... Di Muccio against her nemesis, John Taylor, comes to trial. Di Muccio is demanding $5,000 in damages from Taylor who, she says, damaged her reputation, making her a target of ridicule, contempt and hatred ...
- Created on 11 February 2017
- 25. Di Muccio v Taylor (continued)
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- My spies tell me the trial date has now been set for 10 February 2017 at the Small Claims Court in Newmarket. At long last the end of this ludicrous psycho drama is in sight. Di Muccio's allegations ...
- Created on 30 December 2016
- 26. 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
- 27. Di Muccio v Taylor trial set for 7 December 2016
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- The much anticipated action for defamation brought by Maddie "death stare" Di Muccio against Regional Councillor John Taylor will come to trial on Wednesday 7 December 2016 at the Small Claims Court in ...
- Created on 30 November 2016
- 28. Di Muccio v Taylor postponed until the New Year
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- I am sitting outside the Small Claims Court this morning, waiting for the fun to begin, when John Taylor shuffles in looking like death warmed up. He tells me he is unwell and is going to ask for a postponement. ...
- Created on 28 October 2016
- 29. Di Muccio v Taylor goes to trial on Friday
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- Background: To the Small Claims Court in Newmarket for the latest episode in the Matilde Di Muccio (aka “Maddie”) soap opera. She is suing Regional Councillor John Taylor for defamation. In March 2016 ...
- Created on 26 October 2016
- 30. 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
- 31. October Trial Date set for Di Muccio v Taylor
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- Maddie Di Muccio’s defamation action against Regional Councillor John Taylor will be held in the Small Claims Court at Newmarket at 10am on Friday 28 October 2016. I had hoped the increasingly fragile ...
- Created on 05 May 2016
- 32. 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
- 33. Di Muccio v Taylor goes to full trial
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- Yesterday, at the Small Claims Court in Newmarket, Deputy Judge Bernard Aron ruled that Maddie Di Muccio’s libel action against regional councillor John Taylor should proceed to full trial. Di Muccio ...
- Created on 04 March 2016
- 34. Di Muccio v Taylor back in Court on 3 March
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- My spies tell me that Maddie Di Muccio’s ludicrous libel action against regional councillor John Taylor will be back in Newmarket’s Small Claims Court at 3pm on Thursday 3 March 2016. Instead of setting ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 35. Di Muccio v Taylor: the madness continues
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- To the Small Claims Court at Newmarket to see former Newmarket councillor, Maddie Di Muccio, attempt to extract $5, 000 in damages from Regional Councillor John Taylor for allegedly libeling her. ...
- Created on 03 February 2016
- 36. Di Muccio v Taylor back in Court
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- The long running soap opera, Di Muccio v Taylor, is back in the small claims court tomorrow (3 February). Former Newmarket councillor, the fragile Maddie Di Muccio, is trying to extract $5,000 in damages ...
- Created on 02 February 2016
- 37. February 3, 2016 is the new trial date for Di Muccio v Taylor.
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- The desperate bid by the attention-seeking former Newmarket councillor Maddie Di Muccio to extract $5, 000 in damages from Regional Councillor John Taylor for an alleged libel against her first came up ...
- Created on 14 November 2015
- 38. Maddie Di Muccio libel action against John Taylor could be out of time.
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- ... But he was ill mannered, impatient and rude. Unfortunately, I didn't get his name. He brusquely ordered the public to leave whilst asking Di Muccio and Taylor to stay behind. Section 6 of the Libel and ...
- Created on 04 September 2015
- 39. Di Muccio v Taylor: Trial date set for 4 September
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- The libel action brought by former Newmarket councillor Maddie Di Muccio against Regional Councillor John Taylor will be heard next Friday, 4 September 2015, at 10am in the Small Claims Court at the ...
- Created on 28 August 2015
- 40. Di Muccio v Taylor. What happens next?
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- I receive an email from a familiar name in the Newmarket Twitterverse telling me that Di Muccio v Taylor is being heard in the Small Claims Court so it is “no big deal”. On the contrary, it is a very ...
- Created on 29 July 2015
- 41. Di Muccio v Taylor goes to trial
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- To the Small Claims Court in Newmarket to see Maddie Di Muccio and John Taylor enter Room 2002 together where they will sit down at the same table with a judge presiding. These so called “settlement conferences” ...
- Created on 28 July 2015
- 42. Di Muccio's libel action against Taylor goes to Court tomorrow, Tuesday 28 July 201
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- Maddie Di Muccio's doomed libel action against John Taylor gets under way at the Small Claims Court tomorrow (Tuesday 28 July). A Settlement Conference which aims to resolve matters between the parties ...
- Created on 27 July 2015
- 43. 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
- 44. Di Muccio vs Taylor
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- Regional Councillor John Taylor has now filed a robust defence to Maddie Di Muccio’s ludicrous libel action in which she accuses him of making her “a target of ridicule, hatred and/or contempt of others”. ...
- Created on 07 July 2015
- 45. 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
- 46. Taylor’s move on “Sunset Clauses” overlooked by York Region planners but is now back in play
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- York Region’s Chief Planner, Valerie Shuttleworth, has admitted she overlooked a key proposal from Newmarket regional councillor John Taylor, made in January 2014, to force developers to act on planning ...
- Created on 27 May 2015
- 47. Taylor sidelined by Town staff over Secondary Plan strategy
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- ... official imprimatur. The policies will then be chiseled in stone. However, Regional Councillor John Taylor’s “binding implementation strategy” for the Plan – announced with a great fanfare last June ...
- Created on 19 January 2015
- 48. Taylor loses bid to become York Region Chair but wins nevertheless
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- ... John Taylor also throws his hat into the ring. A third contender pulls out and the pressure is on Taylor to do likewise. Emmerson’s proposer, Richmond Hill’s Mayor, David Barrow, describes him as “someone ...
- Created on 12 December 2014
- 49. Taylor, Wolk and Davis Drive
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- ... I see the completion of Davis Drive!” Gales of laughter bring the house down. What a delightfully witty Mayor he would be! Davis Drive: Taylor feels the pain For the many vocal critics of Tony Van Bynen ...
- Created on 08 October 2014
- 50. 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
- 51. Taylor moves to ban corporate donations to election candidates
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- ... developers and politicians in front of an audience that includes regional councillor, John Taylor, and councillors Dave Kerwin, Joe Sponga and Tom Hempen. The professor tells us that developers make ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 52. Mayor slams Taylor’s 15 storey cap
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- Newmarket Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, has cautioned Regional Councillor, John Taylor, not to put a motion before the Council to cap the height of new buildings at 15 storeys. Taylor wants a vote on building ...
- Created on 21 February 2012
- 53. 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