The Honourable Chrystia Freeland PC, MP Dear Chrystia, We take some pride in being relatively informed and involved citizens. So we won’t apologize for keeping you informed about our views. A previous Liberal government, at the urging of an ill-informed promoter, Toronto Liberal MP Dennis Mills, made Toronto a port even though it failed to meet the government’s ...
Online surveys are useless
The magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, recently announced its readers’ choice awards. We read about it in the Toronto Star as it gushed this: Toronto's Billy Bishop fourth overall among international airports, while Porter Airlines placed ninth among international airlines. Really? A small regional airline, with huge ongoing operational challenges, as the many, many posts on ...
Waterfront for All
We’re pleased there’s a new umbrella waterfront organization, just founded, called Waterfront for All. Its website is  www.waterfrontforall.ca CommunityAIR has been an active participant in its formative discussions. Here’s its first press release, issued today: Don River Flood Protection Key to Unlocking Potential of Toronto’s Waterfront on October 20, 2016 A new citizens group, Waterfront for All, is welcoming today’s ...
Airline Industry and Climate Change
George Monbiot is a British journalist who writes a column for the Guardian newspaper. His specialty is the impact of technology on climate change. He often writes about the airline industry, and the controversy of expanding London’s Heathrow Airport. In a recent article, he concludes that the British “Prime Minister cannot uphold the Paris agreement on ...