Focus On The Lands, 2019-2020
Number of Articles: 112
First series of interviews very anti-airport but civil
Publication Date: March 20, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(Part 4) Dr Polonsky, who was Independent Advisor to the Transport Minister and wrote the report "Jets & Jobs," expresses his views on Pickering airport in this series of articles. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
We cannot ignore progress when it comes to a Pickering airport
Publication Date: March 15, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) The writer sees Mirabel and Pickering as distinctly different issues. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
Prep complete, time to start the Pickering airport interviews
Publication Date: March 13, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(Part 3) Dr Polonsky, who was Independent Advisor to the Transport Minister and wrote the report "Jets & Jobs," expresses his views on Pickering airport in this series of articles. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
Politicians talking without much thought about Pickering airport
Publication Date: March 11, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) The writer takes apart politicians’ claims. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
Prep time sheds light on the Pickering question
Publication Date: March 6, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(Part 2) Dr Polonsky, who was Independent Advisor to the Transport Minister and wrote the report "Jets & Jobs," expresses his views on Pickering airport in this series of articles. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
An airport in Pickering is long overdue
Publication Date: March 4, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) The writer sees the airport as a “boost to our community in both job creation and the quality of life.” (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
No need for runways in Pickering
Publication Date: March 4, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(letter to the editor) The writer advises everyone “to listen skeptically to the land developers and politicians who have nothing to lose and much to gain by supporting this project.” (reader sign-in requiredDurhamRegion.com
Transport Canada: Fact Sheet and FAQs
Publication Date: February 27, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Transport Canada has updated its Pickering Lands information page. The Transport Minister now expects to receive the KPMG airport study report “within the next few months.”Government of Canada, Transport Canada
A phone call starts an 18-month look into a Pickering airport
Publication Date: February 27, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
(Part 1) Dr Polonsky, who was Independent Advisor to the Transport Minister and wrote the report "Jets & Jobs," expresses his views on Pickering airport in the first of a series of articles. (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
City of Pickering’s invitation to “The GTA’s Next Economic Engine” event
Publication Date: February 1, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
Pickering's plans to promote its empty provincial employment lands (they straddle Hwy 407) to Toronto as a business opportunity have morphed into an expensive ratepayer-financed lobbying campaign to build Pickering airport.City of Pickering
Pickering to take Hwy 407 development message to Toronto
Publication Date: January 30, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
The City of Pickering will be promoting an airport at April’s Toronto Region Board of Trade's "Toronto East Aerotropolis" event. A $60,000 budget has been approved to cover speakers’ fees and business sponsorship is being sought to offset the cost. (We will learn at the event that a group of developers stepped right in.) (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com
Pickering to take Hwy. 407 development message to Toronto
Publication Date: January 30, 2019
Tags: Aviation/Airports
City of Pickering will be promoting an airport at an April 9 Toronto Board of Trade "Toronto East Aerotropolis" event. Note the claim that guest speaker John Kasarda’s “participation is covered through the city’s work with the Canadian Urban Institute, and the approved guest speaker fee will retain [Richard] Florida." So will taxpayers be off the hook? (reader sign-in required)DurhamRegion.com