- 1. What the UK National Archives say about Tony Blair's first visit to Canada as P
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- ... explain why. So an email of 12 February 2001 concerning Conrad Black and his “possible peerage” is missing. At some point, hopefully, it will surface. Tony Blair in Canada The papers which document ...
- Created on 31 December 2022
- 2. A Blast from the Past: Tony Blair's first Prime Minister's Question Ti
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- Yesterday I stumbled upon a YouTube video from the UK Parliament marking 20 years of televised proceedings of the House of Commons. I had quite forgotten that I played a minor supporting role in Tony ...
- Created on 21 October 2022
- 3. Does Tony Van Bynen regret signing the nomination papers of the People’s Party of Canada candidate in the 2019 Federal Election in Newmarket-Aurora?
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- In 2019 the Liberal candidate for Newmarket-Aurora, Tony Van Bynen, signed the nomination papers for the then candididate for the People's Party of Canada, Andrew McCaughtrie. Why did he do this? What ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 4. Yvonne Kelly backs Southlake’s Intensive Care Unit Nurses as Tony Van Bynen dodges the question and stays silent.
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- Does Newmarket-Aurora's former Liberal MP, Tony Van Bynen, have a view on the crisis in intensive care at Southlake? If so, he is keeping it to himself. He chooses to say nothing even as Alberta’s ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 5. Tony Van Bynen and the myth of the “strong community leader”
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- A week ago, the Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, dropped in on Tony Van Bynen’s campaign office on Davis Drive opposite Southlake. She tweets: "Tony Van Bynen is a strong community leader and ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 6. Tony Van Bynen’s record in the House of Commons
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- Newmarket-Aurora’s former MP and now Liberal candidate, Tony Van Bynen, told us affordable housing would be one of his top priorities. But the record shows he hasn't mentioned it in the House of Commons ...
- Created on 07 September 2021
- 7. A Message from Tony: MPs and Advertising
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- ... course, their opinions on the taxpayers’ dollar. Spending up six-fold Latest figures from the Parliament of Canada website show Newmarket-Aurora’s Tony Van Bynen has increased his advertising spend ...
- Created on 06 August 2021
- 8. Tony Van Bynen MP: the first year
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- ... doing to prevent and treat cancer. All in all, about five minutes work. The Benefits of Retirement 2019 was a very good year for Tony Van Bynen, the retired Mayor of Newmarket. In January 2019, he ...
- Created on 25 October 2020
- 9. The Danforth Tragedy: does Tony Van Bynen still want a ban on handguns?
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- ... been truly lamentable. Three months after the Nova Scotia massacre we still don’t know what kind of inquiry to expect. We hear the sound of silence. Newmarket-Aurora MP, Tony Van Bynen, reverting to ...
- Created on 21 July 2020
- 10. Tony Van Bynen MP and his Priorities
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- Why did Newmarket-Aurora MP, Tony Van Bynen, miss the key House of Commons Health Committee meeting yesterday concerning the crisis in long-term care? Instead he travels 412km to Ottawa to read a question ...
- Created on 14 May 2020
- 11. We should back Tony Van Bynen’s call for a nationwide ban on handguns
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- During last October’s Federal Election campaign Tony Van Bynen, now MP for Newmarket-Aurora, made it explicitly clear he was in favour of a ban on handguns. On 20 April 2020, in the wake of the mass ...
- Created on 29 April 2020
- 12. Tony Van Bynen sets out his priorities in first speech in the House of Commons
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- Newmarket-Aurora’s new MP, Tony Van Bynen, yesterday made his first speech in the House of Commons. The self-styled “Voice for Fiscal Prudence” told fellow MPs that climate change, affordable housing, ...
- Created on 12 December 2019
- 13. Keeping Tabs on Tony
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- Yesterday I emailed my new MP – Newmarket-Aurora’s Tony Van Bynen – to congratulate him again on his stunning victory in last month’s Federal Election. I wanted to try out his new official email address: ...
- Created on 24 November 2019
- 14. Tony Van Bynen MP
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- The 69 year old former Mayor of Newmarket, Tony Van Bynen, is our new MP. It is an astonishing achievement for someone who was not even a member of the Liberal Party until a few months ago. It has been ...
- Created on 22 October 2019
- 15. Wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen backs rival from People’s Party of Canada
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- The Liberal candidate for Newmarket-Aurora, former banker Tony Van Bynen, signed the nomination papers of Andrew McCaughtrie, the candidate for the People’s Party of Canada. Why did Van Bynen do this? ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 16. Why should we trust Tony Van Bynen?
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- The Liberal Party member of a few month’s standing and wannabe MP, Tony Van Bynen, wants us to vote for him on 21 October because he is a “trusted community leader”. Where is the evidence for that ...
- Created on 29 September 2019
- 17. Wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen gets 9 October deadline to say if he objects to details of his $67,068.33 severance pay from York Region being made public
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- Former Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen has been given a deadline of 9 October 2019 to tell York Region if he has any objection to their releasing to me the letter in which he claimed a severance payment ...
- Created on 25 September 2019
- 18. Liberal wannabe MP Tony Van Bynen says Let’s Chat at Tim’s
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- When I chat to our wannabe Liberal MP, Tony Van Bynen, at Tim’s I have no idea we are being closely observed by two members of the public (who are unknown to me). They nurse their coffees and wait to ...
- Created on 15 September 2019
- 19. Wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen shifted second shadowy $67,068 severance payment from 2018 to 2019 “for tax planning purposes”
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- Tony Van Bynen, the wannabe Liberal MP for Newmarket-Aurora, arranged for his severance payment of $67,068.33 from York Region - which he claimed in 2018 - to be paid in 2019 “for tax planning purposes”. ...
- Created on 13 September 2019
- 20. Wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen keeps quiet about second severance payment of $67,000
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- Former Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen received severance payments totalling $162,699 when he retired from municipal politics and not just the $95,631 previously reported. The wannabe Liberal MP Van ...
- Created on 30 August 2019
- 21. Canvassing Schedule for Newmarket-Aurora's wannabe MP Tony Van Byne
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- Tony may block me from reading his tweets but I still get to know what’s happening. I asked the Liberal Party if it is OK for one of their candidates to block people from reading his tweets. They haven’t ...
- Created on 26 August 2019
- 22. Tony Van Bynen running neck and neck with Lois Brown. Believe it or not.
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- Wannabe Federal Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen is neck and neck with his Conservative rival, the listless and invisible Lois Brown. Tony Van Bynen In its latest prediction (18 August 2019) the election ...
- Created on 19 August 2019
- 23. You're blocked. You can't follow or see @TonyVanBynen's Twe
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- Tony Van Bynen, the freshly minted 69 year old Liberal candidate for Newmarket-Aurora and our next MP, continues to block me from reading his Tweets. I have tweeted the Liberal Party (@liberal_party) ...
- Created on 03 August 2019
- 24. Tony Van Bynen’s acceptance speech tonight will paint a radical picture of Canada’s future
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- Tonight (Monday 8 July 2019) is a big occasion for Tony Van Bynen - and for members of the Liberal Party in Newmarket-Aurora. Van Bynen at the Keith Bridge at Davis Drive. Alas the bridge didn’t meet ...
- Created on 08 July 2019
- 25. Don't mislead the voters says wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen (as he does just that
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- Former Newmarket Mayor and wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Bynen told election candidates in 2014 that “voters deserve facts”. What he said then is still very relevant today. We don’t want to send someone ...
- Created on 04 July 2019
- 26. Tony Van Bynen MP - the Voice for Fiscal Prudence
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- ... Street, Newmarket. The Newmarket-Aurora Liberal Association says: “Tony Van Bynen is the only qualified nomination contestant to have successfully completed the nomination application process. Therefore, ...
- Created on 28 June 2019
- 27. Tony Van Bynen’s severance pay
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- Who could possibly begrudge our former Mayor Tony Van Bynen his severance pay of $95,631.11? Surely all reasonable people believe he deserves to be compensated for his altered circumstances? As a private ...
- Created on 27 June 2019
- 28. Why does Tony Van Bynen want to be a Liberal MP?
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- ... nomination process recognises this and encourages Liberal Associations to cast the net wide to attract women candidates and those from under-represented groups. Tony Van Bynen’s profile somehow doesn’t ...
- Created on 24 June 2019
- 29. Where is our wannabe Liberal MP Tony Van Trappist?
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- ... office on “constituency Fridays” but neither is our 68 year old ex-Mayor and wannabe Liberal MP, Tony Van Trappist. I think the old banker just wants another pension. Outside Elliott's office today ...
- Created on 21 June 2019
- 30. Dining on our Dollar (continued): Tony Van Trappist and his “business lunches”
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- Only the cold-hearted and mean-spirited would begrudge the $95,631.11 severance payment to Newmarket’s former Mayor, Tony Van Trappist, who stepped down from office last October. Over his three terms as ...
- Created on 31 March 2019
- 31. Doug Ford, Tony Van Trappist and the Sunshine List and I'm laughing out loud
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- ... Tony Van Trappist, who appears in the Sunshine List with a salary of $120,393.14 plus taxable benefits of $7,656.20. Now I am gently chortling. If you believe that you believe in the tooth fairy. Then ...
- Created on 24 March 2018
- 32. Tony Van Bynen decides not to seek re-election
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- Newmarket Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, has finally decided to lay down his gavel. He has announced he is not seeking re-election. I shall, of course, miss him. For years he blocked me from reading his ...
- Created on 01 February 2018
- 33. Metrolinx, Tony Van Trappist and the 2041 Draft Transportation Plan
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- ... I spot our Mayor, Tony Van Trappist, at the far end of the room. I hope to hear his views on the big transit and planning issues. His default position is to say next to nothing, adopting a "I'm here to ...
- Created on 09 November 2017
- 34. Donald Trump and Tony Van Trappist
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- For years, Newmarket's Mayor, Tony Van Trappist, has blocked me from viewing his Tweets. And now I read that Donald Trump is blocking the renowned Toronto Star Washington correspondent, Daniel Dale from ...
- Created on 05 October 2017
- 35. How much did Newmarket Mayor, Tony Van Trappist, make in 2016? Was it (a) $117,162 (b) $148,560 (c) $160,564 or (d) more than that?
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- ... and Benefits Other Expenses Total Tony Van Bynen $94,222.41 $7,651.62 $15,320.69 $117,194.72 $8,560.93 $125,755.65 Appendix ...
- Created on 01 April 2017
- 36. OMB Reform and Tony Van Bynen
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- I have been following the municipal career of Mayor Tony Van Bynen long enough to know he talks the talk but doesn’t always walk the walk. The secretive retired banker says he wants to reform the ...
- Created on 11 October 2016
- 37. Tony Van Bynen and elections
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- Newmarket’s retired banker Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, is pleased with himself. He used his column in yesterday’s Era newspaper (25 August) to proclaim: “I am pleased to announce I was elected as a representative ...
- Created on 26 August 2016
- 38. The Pretence of Tony Van Bynen
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- On 21 October 2013, Newmarket’s Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, signed By-law 2013-51, bringing into force the Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District which specifies a 3 storey height cap on ...
- Created on 02 May 2016
- 39. Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen and Councillors to be asked to disclose any private contact with Clock Tower developer Bob Forrest
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- The Mayor and councillors say they believe in transparency. So I invite them all voluntarily to disclose any contact they have had with Bob Forrest and Chris Bobyk concerning the controversial Clock Tower ...
- Created on 13 April 2016
- 40. Reform of the OMB, Highland Gate, Glenway and Tony Van Bynen
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- ... of Newmarket, Tony Van Bynen, is well placed to challenge the developers and campaign to retain open space in urban neighbourhoods. But to believe that is to misunderstand the man and how he operates. ...
- Created on 28 March 2016
- 41. Tony Van Bynen and the OMB
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- ... the capacious brain of Newmarket Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, for years. Unfortunately, he has chosen not to let the rest of us into his thinking. As a retired bank manager, he is by nature cautious and secretive, ...
- Created on 21 February 2016
- 42. Silken Laumann, Tony Van Bynen and the reform of the OMB
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- Before the last Municipal election Tony Van Bynen promised reform of the OMB would be the centerpiece of his third term. Van Bynen, told voters he would “bring real change to the Ontario Municipal Board ...
- Created on 22 November 2015
- 43. The Sunshine List, Tony Van Bynen and Geoffrey Dawe
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- ... Tony Van Bynen, loudly complained to the Toronto Star that they got his salary wrong. The paper subsequently published a correction – revising it sharply downwards from $182,000 to $159,856 but even that ...
- Created on 28 June 2015
- 44. Official: Newmarket Mayor Tony Van Bynen gets paid for being on Hydro Board
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- Bob Shelton, Newmarket’s Chief Administrative Officer, confirmed this afternoon (Thursday 18 June) that the Mayor receives remuneration from Newmarket-Tay Power. He serves as a Director by virtue of ...
- Created on 18 June 2015
- 45. Newmarket Hydro, Newmarket-Tay Power, Paul Ferguson, Tony Van Bynen and the Remuneration of Board Members
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- ... directly to Board members? Sunshine List controversy After the brouhaha over Tony Van Bynen’s salary as reported in the Sunshine List I was left wondering if his declared remuneration included moneys ...
- Created on 14 June 2015
- 46. Tony Van Bynen and the rate for the job
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- I was surprised to read in Saturday’s Toronto Star (11 April) that Newmarket’s Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, appears 4th in a list of “what Mayors in some Canadian cities earned in 2014”. It gives the impression ...
- Created on 14 April 2015
- 47. Mayor Tony Van Bynen’s election literature
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- The Mayor’s latest glossy election leaflet arrived today. But why isn’t there a flattering photograph of the great man himself with a mop of hair on top of his head? Answer: He doesn’t look like that ...
- Created on 16 October 2014
- 48. Tony Van Bynen
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- Mayor Tony Van Bynen has many fine qualities but leading from the front is not one of them. He is a process and procedure man above all. He is good at chairing meetings. I marvel at the exaggerated ...
- Created on 06 October 2014
- 49. Letter to Mayor Tony Van Bynen and Newmarket Councillors
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- By e mail on 4 December 2012 Mayor Van Bynen, I am writing to share a concern that Slessor’s lawyer may have placed the Town of Newmarket’s Council and staff onto a path that (without speedy action) ...
- Created on 05 December 2012
- 50. Sandra Cobena: the new face of Newmarket-Aurora Conservatives
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- ... when he was the candidate last time round, so, for that reason if for no other, I’m glad’s he’s gone. I’d be very surprised if the sitting Liberal MP, 73 year old Tony Van Bynen, seeks another term. ...
- Created on 10 December 2023