The following captions are from the video of an exchange in the council chamber at city hall between Councillor Adam Vaughan and Robert Deluce and president and CEO of Porter Airlines. Councillor David Shiner was in the chair for this part of the meeting. NoJetsTO posted the video on YouTube on September 1. Councillor Vaughan questioned ...
The cSeries Saga Updated
Bombardier launched its CSeries jet series in 2008. The 100-seat passenger aircraft was due to go into service by mid 2014. Due to delays and an engine problem as late as last May, Bombardier isn’t expect to certify the aircraft until the second half of 2015, about a year from now. On August 29, the same ...
More on the Port Authority’s Annual Meeting
The Star weighed in on the port authority's September 3 annual general meeting. Quite rightly, the article pointed out the seeming inconsistency in the port authority's assertion that it is spending at least $3.1 million on the three studies the city requires before deciding on the airport expansion. Nope, insisted port authority prez Geoff Wilson, ...
John Sewell Observes
John Sewell's article in Post on September 3 calls three decisions that the new city council will have to tackle huge. They are deciding on what to do with the Gardiner expressway, to build or not build the Scarborough subway extension and choosing or not to expand the island airport. Mr. Sewell adds architect Ken ...
The Ipsos Reid Unethical Survey
On September 3, NoJets TO posted a media release that takes issue with the Ipsos Reid 2014 Public Opinion Survey - Toronto Port Authority Tracking Study. It quotes highly esteemed market research expert Allan Bowditch. Allan Bowditch is a fellow of the Market Research Society, CEO and chairman of Martin Hamblin GfK, a leading International market research company for ...
The Port Authority Meets the People
The Toronto Port Authority’s Annual General Meeting, held on Wednesday, September 3rd, was the usual performance of blather and obfuscation. Well, that’s not exactly fair. A lot of the citizen participants that we hang out with commented afterwards that this year they did not pump out quite as much propaganda as in the past and ...