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Focus On The Lands, 2015-2016

Number of Articles: 95

Left in limbo by 1970s airport plan

Publication Date: December 30, 2016

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The Globe’s end-of-year look at the Pickering airport story. They got the heading wrong but the article tells the story well. Globe and Mail

Harvesting what we sow: the Pickering airport lands

Publication Date: December 24, 2016

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A perceptive reflection by two participants of the Abundance GTA tour last October 15 of the Pickering Federal Lands and the Rouge National Urban Park.Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

Agri-business: a made-in-Durham asset

Publication Date: December 19, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Land Over Landings’ chair praises op-ed piece by the associate dean of the Durham College Centre for Food and the Centre’s emphasis on agriculture, culinary, and hospitality-related education. Pickering News Advertiser, durhamregion.com

Pickering airport should proceed

Publication Date: December 18, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Get it started! Create those jobs! This reader isn’t worried that yet another government study failed to give the green light.Pickering News Advertiser, durhamdregion.com

Hopes Pickering airport never takes flight

Publication Date: December 12, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Letter writer does not want to see paradise paved.Whitby This Week, durhamregion.com

Mayor Ryan’s garden debacle

Publication Date: December 9, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Letter writer is not a fan of Pickering’s pro-airport mayor.Pickering News Advertiser, durhamregion.com

Polonsky did his job

Publication Date: December 7, 2016

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(editorial) Published in all of Metroland Media's Durham Region newspapers.durhamregion.com

Interview with Dr Polonsky

Publication Date: December 3, 2016

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Dr Polonsky's thoughts about his report.durhamregion.com

Polonsky report: Is that all there is?

Publication Date: December 1, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Channelling Peggy Lee, letter writer assesses the report’s contents.durhamregion.com

Report on potential Pickering airport released

Publication Date: November 29, 2016

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Local coverage on the release of the Polonsky report.Pickering News Advertiser

The Polonsky Report is out

Publication Date: November 28, 2016

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(media release) Dr Polonsky’s report, “Jets & Jobs,” is quietly released. As an “independent advisor” to Transport Canada he’d been tasked to “conduct market sounding by engaging with targeted stakeholders on the potential future development of the Pickering Lands.” He went further, but it’s unclear how many local stakeholders were interviewed. He found little interest in any economic development other than an airport or agriculture on the remaining Federal Lands. The Transport Minister basically deferred any decision until the second study – the Pickering Lands Aviation Sector Analysis (PLASA) – is completed and released in 2018.Transport Canada

Oshawa MP pushes for Pickering airport?!

Publication Date: November 25, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Writer wants to know why Dr Carrie and Oshawa are promoting Pickering and not Oshawa’s airport.Oshawa This Week

They’re with us!

Publication Date: November 22, 2016

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Support from our friends at Food & Water First on the Dundalk Highlands.Twitter capture

Pickering appoints new councillor

Publication Date: November 21, 2016

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Furious doesn’t begin to describe it.CBC News

Combat apathy with transparency on airport debate

Publication Date: November 21, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Land Over Landings’ executive committee member Reid Williamson writes.durhamregion.com

Farmland too important to pave over

Publication Date: November 17, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Sandra Campbell, original POP activist and co-author of The Moveable Airport, spoke before Pickering’s Planning and Development Committee last Monday night. This edited version of her speech appeared in the Toronto Star.the star.ca

Airport push averted

Publication Date: November 17, 2016

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Uxbridge Cosmos gives good overage to the airport meeting at Pickering City Hall. See article on p. 1 and first two letters to the editor on p. 4.thecosmos.ca

Council meeting details

Publication Date: November 16, 2016

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More complete coverage of the Nov. 14 (and 15!) Pickering airport debate at City Hall. The overflow crowd is the largest in memory, and the original call for Ottawa to expedite the planning and implementation of an airport finally becomes a call to expedite the process to enable a decision on the future of the Lands. Not quite the same thing! The motion is passed unanimously around 12:30 a.m., the mayor clearly unhappy. Pickering News Advertiser

Council meeting on Twitter

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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After the 24 official delegations finish up, more than a dozen unscheduled delegations speak. Nearly all oppose Pickering airport. Twitter has a more detailed tally and some comments about the committee’s vote, which is approved after an amendment that passes the sniff test. Twitter capture

Another Council meeting progress report

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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(video) The Council meeting is the lead story on CTV Toronto’s 11:30 p.m. newscast, the results of the vote still to come. The following day, the site shows the results of CTV’s online poll: Should the federal government build the Pickering airport?
Total number of votes: 1,462; Yes: 422 (29 %); No: 1,040 (71 %).
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Council meeting progress report

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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(video) Clip from 11:30 p.m. newscast. Reporter hasn’t anticipated an amended proposal, which was unanimously passed by Council after his report was filed. The change in wording is small but critical: Pickering will now ask the federal government to expedite a decision on a Pickering airport. The reversal has been reset to zero. But the same councillors have to confirm the decision on November 21 when they reconvene as Executive Council.citynews.ca

Group opposes fast-tracking of airport

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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The Council meeting is getting under way. CTV recaps the lead-up to it.

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Global report before the Council meeting

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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(video, segment runs from 11:07 to 13:34) Global TV’s 5:30 p.m. newscast, before the Planning & Development Committee meeting where the contentious report will be debated.globalnews. ca

Pickering Council’s plan called “stunning” reversal

Publication Date: November 14, 2016

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More news on Pickering Council’s proposed request to the federal government to fast-track construction of Pickering airport.thestar.com

Oshawa MP calls for action on Pickering airport issue

Publication Date: November 10, 2016

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MP Colin Carrie asks: Where’s Dr Polonsky’s report? When is Pickering airport going to be built? Oshawa This Week, durhamregion.com

Pickering Council to push for airport

Publication Date: November 10, 2016

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The Cosmos spreads the word to Uxbridge residents (second item).thecosmos.ca

Pickering Council could ask Ottawa to expedite airport

Publication Date: November 10, 2016

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More from our local news source.durhamregion.com

Sustain Ontario backs us

Publication Date: November 9, 2016

Land Over Landings recently joined the Sustain Ontario network owing to their strong, active advocacy for protecting farmland and food production across Ontario. When they hear of the latest airport threat they immediately appeal to their network of 57 members on our behalf.sustainontario.com

Pickering caught in about-face on airport policy?

Publication Date: November 9, 2016

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Pickering’s mayor says he’s personally in favour of an airport, believing it will create much-needed jobs and a new staff report will urge Ottawa to “get on with it.” CBC News

Toronto’s accidental breadbasket

Publication Date: October 22, 2016

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Sandra Campbell, author of The Moveable Airport, has been involved in the fight against a Pickering airport since the early days of People or Planes. This year she developed Abundance GTA, an eco-arts project to inform/engage Torontonians in the crusade to permanently protect the farmlands and natural habitat on the remaining Federal Lands. Along for the day was Toronto Star columnist Shawn Micaleff.thestar.com

Pickering-Uxbridge MP talks about proposed airport

Publication Date: September 14, 2016

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Pickering-Uxbridge MP Jennifer O’Connell discusses airport, jobs, and other federal priorities.durhamregion.com

An idea that shouldn’t get off the ground

Publication Date: August 13, 2016

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(letters to the editor) Big response to the article “Airport is win-win-win at Pickering,” in Toronto Star (item below).thestar.com

Pickering airport a “win-win-win”

Publication Date: August 6, 2016

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(op-ed)Pilot Samer Bishay tells Toronto Star readers why a Pickering airport would be a “win-win-win.” startouch.thestar.com

Yet another airport study

Publication Date: August 4, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Land Over Landings’ chair makes clear our position on the latest study.durhamregion.com

Transport Canada study follows Transport Canada study

Publication Date: July 24, 2016

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Transport Canada has yet to formally announce its latest Pickering airport study, the “Pickering Lands Aviation Sector Analysis,” which is to be done by KPMG. The general public is getting only minimal information via local media.durhamregion.com

Clues to Transport Canada studies

Publication Date: July 11, 2016

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A detail or two on Dr Polonsky’s report to Transport Canada. And another sliver of information on the department’s second study. durhamradionews.com

Durham regional chair on Pickering airport

Publication Date: July 5, 2016

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Durham Region’s chair, Roger Anderson, delivers his annual plug for a Pickering airport, this time to the Scugog Chamber of Commerce, claiming: “This is a win for us.” durhamregion.com

More in Ontario’s transfer of Rouge Park to RNUP

Publication Date: June 22, 2016

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Coverage of Ontario Minister Brad Duguid’s announcement recommending transfer of the provincial Rouge lands to the RNUP, plus reference to our AGM and the announcement of our upcoming campaign calling for the transfer of the remaining Federal Lands to the RNUP.durhamregion.com

Coalition to call for rest of Federal Lands to RNUP

Publication Date: June 21, 2016

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Article about the coalition we announced at our AGM that will be calling for the remaining Federal Lands to be added to the Rouge National Urban Park. Also mentions Transport Canada’s first public acknowledgement of their launch of “Pickering Lands Aviation Sector Analysis” study. InsideToronto.com

Ontario will transfer Rouge Park to RNUP

Publication Date: June 18, 2016

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Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development and Growth, Brad Duguid, announces that he will recommend that Ontario transfer its Rouge property to Parks Canada to become part of the Rouge National Urban Park. Another piece of good news: the farmers in the northern section, originally part of the “airport site,” will have 30-year leases with Parks Canada.CTV News

New airport will be good for environment

Publication Date: April 4, 2016

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(letter to the editor) A pilot who wants to see a Buttonville replacement on the Federal Lands thinks that building Pickering airport (“Pickering Airpark”) will help save our planet.durhamregion.com

Mayor’s airport vision vs Council’s environmental one

Publication Date: March 31, 2016

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Pickering’s mayor constantly promotes a Pickering airport, yet Pickering Council commits to protecting the air, water, and land, and to protecting and promoting people’s right to a healthy environment. Good for Council, we say. Pickering News Advertiser

Durham regional chair criticised on airport stance

Publication Date: March 15, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Writer says our regional chair needs to do his homework on Pickering airport.durhamregion.com

Where does Pickering’s mayor get his airport numbers?

Publication Date: March 13, 2016

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(letter to the editor) Writer challenges Pickering’s mayor to reveal the sources of the numbers he quotes when touting the advantages of a Pickering airport. durhamregion.com

Polonsky Report on future of Federal Lands: tiny clues

Publication Date: March 13, 2016

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Dr Gary Polonsky offers insights into his Independent Advisor report to the Transport Minister.Pickering News Advertiser, durhamregion.com

Durham regional chair quotes different airport date

Publication Date: March 12, 2016

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Three days after the February Ajax-Pickering Board of Trade meeting, Durham’s regional chair, who attended that breakfast, tells a Clarington audience that Pearson will reach capacity in 2038, whereas the GTAA consultant had said that Pearson’s current 5-runway configuration will reach capacity in 2032. So which is it, Mr Anderson?! Clarington This Week

Our petition gets read in House of Commons

Publication Date: March 1, 2016

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Initial reading of our “new” petition by the new government in the House of Commons.Parliament of Canada, Hansard

More on “All About Airports” breakfast

Publication Date: February 29, 2016

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More coverage of the recent Ajax-Pickering Board of Trade “All About Airports” meeting. Pickering News Advertiser

GTAA updates APBOT on southern Ontario aviation needs

Publication Date: February 19, 2016

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The October 2015 GTAA consultants’ white paper never discusses Pickering airport; the only mention is reference to “Pickering site” on a map. At this breakfast it’s another story, perhaps obliged, while in Pickering, to include a couple of “Pickering airport” slides in their presentation. Mayor Ryan, unconcerned by contradictions, says he favours an airport in Pickering, as Pearson will reach its capacity of 65 million annual passengers in 2032. Really? Ajax News Advertiser

LOL’s youth wing write to the PM

Publication Date: February 9, 2016

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Local coverage of the letter from LOL’s youth wing to the Youth Minister – Prime Minister Trudeau.Pickering News Advertiser

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