CommunityAIR - working towards a clean, green waterfront PoTO Directors’ Resignations Requested to Make Way for Reform For Immediate Release Monday, November 23, 2015 Contact: Brian Iler, Chair 416-835-4384 (cell) 416-598-0544 (work direct) In letters delivered to four of the six directors of Ports Toronto in office, CommunityAIR today requested their resignations. The text of the letter sent to Robert D. Poirier, ...
Gar Mahood Thanks Marc Garneau
Garfield (Gar) Mahood is a former executive of the Canadian Environmental Law Association but he is better known as a champion for the rights of non-smokers. A founding member of the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association in 1974, Mr. Mahood received the Canadian Cancer Society's R.M. Taylor Medal and Award, their highest award, in 1997. In 2007, he ...
Skirting Facts
The following exchange took place between CommunityAIR's Brian Iler and a poster who identifies her/himself as MD2. The exchange is on The Airline Website. The thread, Oh oh....maybe the Liberals are serious about no expansion, is a five-page discussion on the recent Liberal announcement on not opening the tripartite agreement. MD2's posts are spread throughout the ...
A Blast from the Past
Just when we thought that the Waterfront Czar had left us, former PortsToronto board member (2007-2015), chairman and letter-writer extraordinaire of turgid missives, Mark McQueen, showed that he can’t let go. His tweet, "Cllr fights to keep @BBishopAirport debate alive", October 22, links that master of due political process, Jim Karygiannis, and the questionable 2013 Public ...
Bombardier’s C Series Aircraft
The C Series Mystery Toronto Appearance On August 20, Bombardier quietly announced, … “one of the C Series aircraft’s demonstration stops in September will be at its Bombardier Toronto site where many employees will see the aircraft fly for the first time.” The Bombardier Downsview plant assembles the turboprop Q400 that Porter Airlines flies. Why would Bombardier ...
PortsToronto Announces New App – Billy™
On September 1, Ports Toronto announced launch of ‘Billy™’, a new mobile app, not to be confused with Ikea’s Billy bookcases. App as Convenience Billy™ will do wonderful things according to the press release. Indeed, Billy™ offers: a flight-tracking tool ”that provides real-time flight updates; weather and traffic conditions for both departure and arrival cities”; airport information, including directions ...