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Is patrickjohnstone.ca legit or a scam?
Official personal blog of elected mayor Patrick Johnstone with a 12-year domain age and zero scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a straightforward WordPress blog containing council meeting notes and personal posts from Patrick Johnstone. The domain is over 12 years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP that has zero abuse reports. Our research confirms the site is explicitly listed on Wikipedia and the City of New Westminster pages as the mayor's official website. No scam families, blocklist hits, or complaints appear in any of our checks. The combination of age, clean infrastructure, and verified identity gives high confidence this is a legitimate personal site.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for patrickjohnstone.ca, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain patrickjohnstone.ca is the personal website of Patrick Johnstone, Mayor of New Westminster, BC, Canada (elected 2022, previously councillor since 2014)
- Wikipedia page for Patrick Johnstone explicitly lists www.patrickjohnstone.ca as his website
- Official City of New Westminster mayor page confirms his identity and background; site contains blog posts on local council meetings dated into 2026
- Domain age listed as 4380 days (~12 years); page title matches 'Patrick Johnstone – Fan of cities; Mayor of a great one.'
- No search results link the domain to scams, fraud, phishing, malware, or complaints; 'scam' mentions appear only in unrelated blog content
- Reddit discussions reference the mayor and site in political contexts (elections, policy) with no domain-related issues
- Contact info on site (info@patrickjohnstone.ca) matches listings on city-affiliated and social media profiles
Our research confirmed patrickjohnstone.ca is the personal website of Patrick Johnstone, Mayor of New Westminster. It is listed on his Wikipedia page and the City of New Westminster mayor profile. No scam reports, complaints, or fraud mentions were found on any consumer sites or discussion forums. The site contains ongoing blog posts about local council business that align with his public role.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@patrickjohnstone.ca).
- Phone number listed (604 679 6784).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://patrickjohnstone.ca/
- 2200https://www.patrickjohnstone.ca/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
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Reputation Sources
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on patrickjohnstone.ca. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- patrickjohnstone.ca passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. patrickjohnstone.ca presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 87 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- patrickjohnstone.ca is 12.0 years old, registered on 6/5/2014 through Go Get Canada Domain Registrar Ltd.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. patrickjohnstone.ca is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- patrickjohnstone.ca resolves to an IP operated by DreamHost in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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