Focus On The Lands, 2013-2014
Number of Articles: 92
On being a child of the Lands
Publication Date: December 17, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Historical
Filmmaker Geoff Norris writes about the anxiety of growing up on the Federal Lands in Pickering.Now Toronto
Ontario’s Greenbelt under threat
Publication Date: December 9, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
Environmental Defence highlights threats to the Greenbelt, including Pickering Airport – a “white elephant in waiting.”Environmental Defence
Durham’s now-elected regional chair on the future
Publication Date: December 7, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Newly elected chair of Durham Region, Roger Anderson, advocates development of Pickering airport in the 2020s.durhamregion.com
LOL comments on Greenbelt at Risk report
Publication Date: December 4, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
(video) Local cable TV show Durham Now airs comments from Land Over Landings about the Environmental Defence report Greenbelt at Risk, which points to the proposed Pickering airport as one of the top five risks.Rogers Cable TV
Pickering’s leaders too keen on sprawl
Publication Date: November 4, 2014
Tags: Environment
(letter to editor) Writer dissatisfied with Pickering leadership’s focus on urban sprawl projects.Pickering News Advertiser
Durham regional chair wants decision on airport
Publication Date: October 29, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Durham chair Anderson “...vows to put pressure on the federal government to make a clear decision about plans for a Pickering airport...”durhamregion.com
Municipal candidates on Pickering airport
Publication Date: October 22, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Candidates state their positions on Pickering airport at Ajax-Pickering Board of Trade debate.Ajax News Advertiser
Durham regional chair’s ideas on Pickering airport
Publication Date: October 9, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Durham chair Anderson thinks Pickering airport should be privately run and would be ideal shipping point for agricultural products.Uxbridge Cosmos
Our petition in House of Commons
Publication Date: October 8, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
(video) MP Matthew Kellway (NDP, Beaches-East York) continues to present our petition in the House of Commons.YouTube
Feds need to come clean on plans for Federal Lands
Publication Date: August 28, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture, Historical
(editorial) A call for the federal government to become much more specific about its plans for future use of the Federal Lands.Pickering News Advertiser
Our priceless natural assets
Publication Date: May 28, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Environment, Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor)Whitby high school student explains her generation’s concerns about building Pickering airport.Pickering News Advertiser
Pickering airport important to Scugog?
Publication Date: May 1, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(editorial) Editor thinks that “including the federal government’s stated intention to finally develop the Pickering airport lands” is good news for Scugog township.Port Perry Star
Never was, never will be a business case
Publication Date: April 23, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer corrects notion that a Pickering airport would benefit the region.Pickering News Advertiser
Think twice about a Pickering airport
Publication Date: April 18, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer questions why a Pickering airport needed.Clarington This Week
Liberal leader talks about Pickering airport
Publication Date: April 1, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Well, barely, in the first instance. When asked about building a Pickering airport, Justin Trudeau said: “I am not in a position to say whether or not I think the airport should go forward.”Pickering News Advertiser
Hope that Flaherty’s exit will stall airport plans
Publication Date: March 19, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Land Over Landings hopes that new finance minister Joe Oliver won’t continue Jim Flaherty’s Pickering airport project.Toronto Star
Growing up vs growing out
Publication Date: March 19, 2014
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor) Land Over Landings supports Ajax Mayor Parish’s vision for “in-fill” urban development, questions Pickering Mayor Ryan’s vision of building greenhouses on top of prime north Pickering farmland.Pickering News Advertiser
Pickering airport presents a risk
Publication Date: March 10, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Worries that local taxpayers with be burdened with a Pickering airport project that will potentially be over-built, under-used, with huge cost over-runs.Pickering News Advertiser
Mirabel no model for Pickering
Publication Date: March 8, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Land Over Landings responds to letter about jobs at failed Mirabel airport.Pickering News Advertiser
MP Chisu on proceeding with Pickering airport
Publication Date: February 27, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
MP Corneliu Chisu (Pickering-Scarborough East, Conservative) speaks in Parliament about proceeding with the Pickering Airport.Parliament of Canada, Hansard
MP begins reading our petition in House of Commons
Publication Date: February 26, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
MP Matthew Kellway (Beaches-East York, NDP) has begun reading our petition in the House of Commons.Hansard/CPAC
Shock and dismay over Pickering airport plan
Publication Date: February 20, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Pickering airport would be disaster for the community.Pickering News Advertiser
Mayor Ryan boosts Pickering airport
Publication Date: February 20, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Mayor Dave Ryan shared his views on Pickering airport during the annual Mayors’ Breakfast at Pickering-Ajax Board of Trade. (Ajax Mayor Steve Parish also addressed the invitation-only crowd.) Read p. 8 onwards.durhamregion.com
Pickering Council passes Federal Lands resolution
Publication Date: February 15, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(video: 131:20 to 191:37) Pickering Council debates and unanimously passes resolution regarding the Federal Lands.Rogers Durham TV
Let’s review Mirabel
Publication Date: February 15, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Mirabel airport has some jobs.Pickering News Advertiser
Councillor questions airport reference in federal budget
Publication Date: February 13, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Pickering councillor wonders what happened to City’s call for openness and transparency; per federal budget: “Government is consulting with a broad range of stakeholders on the future of the Pickering lands. To date, over 600 submissions have been received from the public. In the coming months, the Government will hold a series of roundtables with local stakeholders to ensure development benefits local businesses.” Who knew?Pickering News Advertiser
Airport would be horrible mistake
Publication Date: February 12, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer disputes claims in January 30 editorial.Pickering News Advertiser
Airport lands an opportunity to grow
Publication Date: February 12, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer disputes claims in January 30 editorial.Pickering News Advertiser
Airport editorial doesn’t fly
Publication Date: February 12, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer disputes claims in January 30 editorial. Pickering News Advertiser
Paving the land that feeds us
Publication Date: February 6, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(op-ed) Land Over Landings’ response to the January 30 editorial, “Bring on Pickering airport, but keep residents in loop.”Pickering News Advertiser
Pickering Lands and urban sprawl
Publication Date: February 4, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Environment
Is the federal government’s plan for the Pickering lands just a cover to allow more urban Now Toronto
Paving farmland no solution
Publication Date: February 4, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer disputes claims in January 30 editorial.Pickering News Advertiser
Appalled over Pickering airport support
Publication Date: February 2, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) Writer disputes claims of January 30 editorial.Pickering News Advertiser
Bring on Pickering airport
Publication Date: January 30, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
(editorial) Writer says airport would bring jobs, but a “chunk, even a small chunk” of land should be kept for local farmers and students of Durham College’s Centre for Food.Pickering News Advertiser
Report on Pickering’s resolution
Publication Date: January 30, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
News report (pp. 1, 6) on Pickering City Council’s unanimous support of the Jan. 27 motion. Uxbridge Cosmos
City Hall rally to protest Pickering airport
Publication Date: January 28, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Report on rally at Pickering City Hall before council votes unanimously to support a motion demanding federal government transparency on plans for the Federal Lands, including participation by the City and its citizens, a business case, a comprehensive environmental assessment, a commitment to respect designated Greenbelt, Moraine, and Green Space lands, etc. [CTV News at 11:30 also covered the Council meeting.]CITY-TV
Report on Pickering Council’s airport resolution
Publication Date: January 28, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(first 2:35 min of video broadcast) News report on Pickering City Council’s unanimous support of the Jan. 27 motion demanding federal government transparency on plans for the Federal Lands, including participation by local stakeholders.CHEX-TV Durham
Airport work should be open and transparent
Publication Date: January 28, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports
News report on Pickering City Council’s unanimous support of the Jan. 27 motion.Ajax News Advertiser
Canada’s messy big-ticket airport projects
Publication Date: January 22, 2014
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Historical
PhD candidate Bret Edwards is studying the history of Canada’s “messy and ill-conceived” airport projects in the jet age.The Toronto Review of Books blog
About demolitions
Publication Date: November 28, 2013
Tags: Historical
(online article, no longer accessible) A report on the ongoing heartbreak of home demolition on the Federal Lands.Daily Commercial News
Airport no, agriculture yes
Publication Date: November 19, 2013
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to editor) Writer responds to Nov. 4 letter (below) that suggested a Pickering airport would bring jobs and convenience.Pickering News Advertiser
More on Claremont public information meeting
Publication Date: October 24, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
Coverage (p. 4) of the same public information meeting at the Claremont Community Centre on the need to protect foodlands and fresh water sources.Uxbridge Cosmos
Claremont public info meeting on foodland protection
Publication Date: October 23, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
Coverage of public information meeting at Claremont Community Centre, featuring guest speaker Carl Cosack, of Food & Water First, on the need to protect foodlands and fresh water sources.Pickering News Advertiser
Turbulence ahead
Publication Date: October 18, 2013
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Is rising Tory star, MP Chris Alexander, at odds with his finance minister over the revived Pickering airport plan? Whichever way he turns, he faces strong opposition. Maclean’s targets that uncomfortable space between rock and hard place. The history, interviews, audio clips, interactive maps, it’s all there. And given nation-wide coverage too!Macleans.ca
Tour of the Lands
Publication Date: October 17, 2013
Tags: Aviation/Airports, Food/Water/Agriculture
Columnist Roger Varley writes (p. 7) about his Oct. 9 tour of the Pickering federal lands.Uxbridge Cosmos
Pickering airport project
Publication Date: October 16, 2013
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(video clip time frame 10:55 to 21:00) Ontario’s French television network news program 360 features a 10-minute documentary on the Pickering airport project.TFO 360
Paving over farmland for an airport we don’t need
Publication Date: October 10, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
Following his Oct. 9 tour of the Pickering Federal Lands, NDP MP Matthew Kellway emphasizes the importance of preserving these farmlands to sustain the GTA into the future.Huffington Post Canada
Airport plans leave farmers in the air
Publication Date: October 9, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture, Historical
The Tapscott family describes the difficulty of farming with year-to-year leases on the north Pickering lands.Toronto Star
Airport foes winning converts
Publication Date: October 8, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
(letter to the editor) and Over Landings chair Mary Delaney congratulates News Advertiser’s editor for finally recognizing the need for retaining agriculture on the Federal Lands.Pickering News Advertiser
Saving some farmland should be in airport plans
Publication Date: October 3, 2013
Tags: Food/Water/Agriculture
(editorial) In a shift in editorial stance from June, 2013, Pickering News Advertiser editor recognizes the importance of preserving farmland on the Federal Lands.Pickering News Advertiser