- 1. Van Bynen backs Bob Forrest and says Clock Tower development is just what Main Street needs
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- Newmarket’s Mayor, retired bank manager Tony Van Bynen, has finally nailed his colours to the mast. Van Bynen, so often a master of softly modulated equivocation, bluntly tells the Era newspaper today ...
- Created on 11 April 2016
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 4. Showdown looms between Main Street Business and Van Bynen over condo in the heart of the Historic Downtown
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- ... the Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District. For years, Van Bynen, forever the bean-counting bank manager, had dragged his feet on bringing forward an implementing By-Law on the grounds ...
- Created on 20 December 2015
- 5. 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
- 6. Van Bynen set to give approval to condo blighting Newmarket’s historic Main Street
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- ... disregarding the Town’s official policy which seeks to limit any development to three storeys. Newmarket Mayor, the secretive former bank manager, Tony Van Bynen, looks set ...
- Created on 16 November 2015
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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
- 12. 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