Jason Cherniak for Richmond Hill
209 - 10909 Yonge Street L4E 3C3 Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

Do you know a woman who has contributed to the Richmond Hill community and deserves recognition? You should nominate her for this award! https://www.yorkregion.com//10274545-rotary-club-of-richm/

I wish our Richmond Hill Regional councillors thought like this.

This year, due to COVID, Rotary's 13th annual tree planting in Oak Ridges, Richmond Hill, will be without school kids. I'm organizing volunteers to help and we only need 2 or 3 more. Please let me know if you would like to join us.

This past year has been very difficult for Richmond Hill. The City has deferred property tax payments, cut back on programs and laid off thousands of staff. Meanwhile, in only 6-months, Regional Councillor Joe DiPaola has spent $40,000 of tax payer money in expenses! Over $38,000 of that was for advertising and communications. As noted by YorkRegion.com reporter Sheila Wang, DiPaola accounts for 38% of all 9 councillors' expenses. He's also spent 285% more than the next ...highest spender. Communications from politicians is important. It was particularly important during the pandemic when people needed information. But the massive amount of spending - which included glossy promotional brochures and banner headlines in the local paper for DiPaola personally - go far beyond what was needed or helpful. He's been spending our money to sell himself and he needs to stop doing it now. https://www.yorkregion.com//10222283-richmond-hill-coun-/

Mayor Dave Barrow has delivered his 2020 State of the City Address. This year’s address focused on how Richmond Hill has weathered the global pandemic, includin...g providing tax relief, celebrating businesses that are making a difference and launching the Recover Richmond Hill Action Plan. Read a full transcript here: https://bit.ly/3k0jpP0

City of Richmond Hill needs serious people on city council - not people like Carmine Perrelli who just want to see themselves in print.

Great analysis by Marj Andre. In other news, Doug Ford is planning to secretly have his daughters over for Thanksgiving like he did for Easter.

Listen to the doctors! Stay home and take COVID seriously. Perhaps more importantly, force your tween and teen children to do the same. It's been obvious all summer that they are not social distancing when they meet at parks or local plazas.

Listen to the doctors! Stay home and take COVID seriously. Perhaps more importantly, force your tween and teen children to do the same. It's been obvious all summer that they are not social distancing when they meet at parks or local plazas.

I'm proud to be part of the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill Ontario. This year, as community service director, I was responsible for organizing the donations to Yellow Brick House, Mackenzie Health front-line workers and the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank. This Saturday from 11 - 4, we will be holding a bottle drive where people can drop off beer, wine and liquor bottles/cans. We will return them and use the money for local projects. We are also taking non-perishable foo...d donations for the food bank. I will be at the 10909 Yonge Street location (Yonge and Bernard, just north of Elgin Mills). Thank you to my landlord, Conservatory Group, for allowing us to use the parking lot. https://www.yorkregion.com//10206671-richmond-hill-rotary/

Today, I made closing submissions on behalf of the Yonge-Bernard Residents Association in support of lower heights and densities in the Yonge and Bernard Key Development Area in Richmond Hill. My client is opposing heights potentially as high as 60 storeys and residents and jobs of up to at least 14,300 surrounding the bus terminal. It was the 15th day of the hearing and it has been a lot of work (to say the least). I hope that the LPAT sees its way to making some of the changes that my client is recommending. If you are interested in seeing my submissions, they are online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUeZc_gKd5E

Doug Ford is not a good premier. He got out of the way for 6-months, but that seems to be over. Ford is saying little about criticism of his decision to vault Huyer, who acknowledged at that same press conference that he is not a public health expert, to the front lines of the province’s pandemic response, less than a year after Ontario’s auditor general identified serious problems in the coroner’s office. The coroner’s office came under fire for a cascade of failures duri...ng Dirk Huyer’s leadership. So why did Doug Ford put him in charge of Ontario’s COVID-19 outbreak response? https://www.thestar.com//the-coroners-office-was-widely-cr

I’m organizing logistics and will be at the Yonge and Bernard site for this fundraiser.

If you have any empty's, please hold onto them and drop them off on September 26 so that Rotary can use the money for charity.

Never forget who the real Doug Ford is. Ontario court rules Doug Ford’s gas-pump stickers attacking carbon-pricing are ‘unconstitutional’ https://www.thestar.com//ontario-court-rules-doug-fords-ga

Bankruptcy is meant to protect people who cannot pay their bills. If you declare all of your assets and debts, and admit that you are bankrupt, then the government protects you and forces your creditors to walk away without full payment. Nobody is allowed to conceal assets while using the bankruptcy process to wipe away debts. City of Richmond Hill Councillor Greg Beros had multiple mortgages on his home. Some of them were purchased by a company bearing the name of Susan Ma...cDonald. They seem to have gone into default, so that company sold the home by power of sale to John MacDonald (not sure if they are related). Greg Beros then went bankrupt. After his bankruptcy ended, the home was transferred back to him for a declared payment of $0. Greg Beros swore in an affidavit that the house had been held in trust for him by John MacDonald. This means that Beros was actually the owner of the equity/value in the house. How did Beros obtain that beneficial ownership? If before or during bankruptcy, it should have been disclosed and used to pay creditors. If after bankruptcy, how did Beros find the money? Another wrinkle is that despite claiming no payment for the house, Beros took out a mortgage the same day. Are we supposed to believe that money didn’t pay off the mortgage MacDonald had on the house? Or maybe MacDonald also gave his mortgage in trust for Beros? The only thing we know for sure is that land transfer tax was not paid on closing. I find it very strange that the person who bought Councillor Beros’ house before the bankruptcy later transferred it back to him for no declared payment after the bankruptcy. I also find it strange that Councillor Beros took out a mortgage the same day he supposedly paid nothing for the house. There is not enough public information available for me to say whether this was done legally. Greg Beros was an elected Councillor both during and after the bankruptcy, and he remains one today. I hope he can explain what he did. https://www.yorkregion.com//10139062-previously-bankrupt-/