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@globeandmail @marcusbgee "...small, practical victories." 2 wks after my 1st deputation on #TorontoFire, Deputy Chief announced retirement. 1 wk later Chief did too.
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38 Seconds. That's what Toronto's firefighters used to leave behind at the fire station. Quit complaining. Do something. It's your city too.
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Good points by Chris Glover…
$3B will add 23M passengers at Pearson
Billy Bishop will cost $5B to add 8M passengers
And where’s the money going to come from?
Pearson will self-finance through retained earnings
There’s no way Billy Bishop’s $30M revenue can finance $5B
Chris Glover@chrisglover
The cost to expand Billy Bishop Airport has now ballooned to $5 billion—and the math isn't mathing. #ONpoli
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Tony Araujo retweetledi
The Toronto left: The Islands belong to THE PEOPLE!!
Normals: So, bridge or tunnel?
Toronto left: Ew. Neither. No poor people.
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“…great waterfronts, like great downtowns and great cities, are not one thing or another. They are bustling mixes of activity – the messy urbanism that is part of Toronto’s DNA.” theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
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@g_meslin Residential uses adjacent to two sides of YHU, Parc Cherbourg literally right across the street and Mont Bruno park under the flight path. It’s called city living.
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@allsecondscount Billy Bishop has had a few years handling around 2.8M passengers, and the YHU terminal is described as having a capacity of 4M. That feels more like ‘similar’ than ‘double’ to me. The runways are longer. Its location also is not adjacent central waterfront, harbour, and parks.
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This is legit hilarious in that there is a large community of real people, with substantive arguments and concerns, opposing airport expansion, while the main voices of support are PCPO politicians, lobbyists, and anonymous reply guys like ‘Robert Cowboy’.
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@g_meslin Double the terminal capacity / double the runway length = similar? I’d be pleased with similar for Toronto’s second airport.
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@allsecondscount We also have two airports. Billy Bishop’s current capacity is similar to YHU.
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@JessicaBellTO @LongBranchMike1 Imagine if we had a great park accessible to the city like New York or Chicago or London?
Graham Churchill@GraChurch
Dear Premier Ford, Great cities have unique places people want to visit. Toronto has few of them. But it does have two, or it could: the Toronto Islands and the Harbourfront. Both will be destroyed by expanding Billy Bishop airport. If you want to make Toronto a great place people want to visit, put a train/passenger bridge on the Eastern and Western Gaps and put in a circular tram to go around it. It would turn the harbour into an amazing playground with the best view in the world and make Toronto a must visit destination. Don’t destroy Toronto with an island airport.
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Toronto Port Authority just confirmed in hearings late today the Billy Bishop airport expansion will cost a massive $4B to $5B.
Who is going to pay for it?
Is this expansion even economically viable?
We also learned the provincial government and the federal government are in secret closed door conversations with the Port Authority over the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and the rest of us are in the dark, including the City of Toronto.
Toronto residents don't want this airport expansion, and the people in charge know it.
That's why they're not telling us about what's in store for us.
They're not telling us about the business case, the increase in pollution, the noise, the health impacts, or the impact on tourism and housing construction.
Jessica Bell@JessicaBellTO
I’m at the hearings today for the Ontario government’s takeover of Billy Bishop Airport. Minister of Transportation Sarkaria is speaking first: he’s speaking slowly, and is spending a lot of time talking about tolls, highways, drivers, and the tunnel under the 401 (he calls it a revolutionary concept).
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@markrmcqueen @JohnLorinc That’s Harbourfront property isn’t it? They seem to be rolling in extra funds lately. Some how, an agency that’s been close to insolvency forever, also found the funds to pave two parking lots at Marina Quay West and the Rees Street lot. Go figure @JohnLorinc
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"Similarly, the bureaucrats need to be empowered to say no to community groups that want to constantly tinker with a project, resulting in additional cost and more delay and, eventually, more cynicism."
RT @JohnLorinc Why does it take so long for the City of Toronto to get things done? First, they need to admit there's a problem thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar
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@markrmcqueen @BBishopAirport @Bombardier Medevac jets have been landing at @BBishopAirport for ages. No one notices though, because they’re generally quieter than the Q400.
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If I’m not mistaken, a medevac Challenger can already conduct a “performance landing” at @BBishopAirport under certain circumstances. A 350 / 650 @Bombardier business jet would invariably fail the TPA’s existing strict noise restrictions.
Chris Glover@chrisglover
In the chamber today, I overheard Doug Ford’s Minister of Education say that Carney is behind the push for jets at Billy Bishop Airport. While heckling a Liberal MPP during Question Period this morning, the minister said “the Prime Minister’s Challenger can’t land [at Billy Bishop], that’s why they’re giving us money. So the Prime Minister’s Challenger can land there.” #ONpoli #CDNpoli
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UrbanToronto@Urban_Toronto
Plans have been filed for 2 Bloor Street East that would introduce a new use within the podium of the Hudson’s Bay Centre, bringing self-storage to one of Toronto’s busiest intersections, repurposing the largest vacant site at Yonge & Bloor. urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/04/s…
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Problems with UP Express tracks dating back to 2015 defy repair attempts, confidential Metrolinx report reveals. Another reason to expand Billy Bishop Airport thestar.com/news/gta/probl… via @torontostar
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Tony Araujo retweetledi
@MorePerfectUS This thing carries enough people to fill 10 full ride shares but it only provides one job. These eliminate 9 jobs each and the tech industry is trying to push them on my city
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@markrmcqueen @Toronto_Fire You forgot to mention that the ferry subsidy isn’t the end of it. Islanders pay a lower fare then anyone else too. And the biggest one, the controlled process for valuation of their houses means their property taxes are 20%-30% of other waterfront dwellers
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Little known fact: Toronto taxpayers spend >$10M / yr subsidizing the winter ferry service for ~600 island residents. Plus the dedicated @Toronto_Fire hall, which “costs Toronto [taxpayers] $25,925 to answer a call on the Islands [in the off-season], as opposed to $2,926 in the rest of the city.”
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
Billy Bishop airport expansion gets Toronto Island residents in fight mode: ‘It’s a sin’ trib.al/575q1Rw
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@jen_keesmaat What idiotic claptrap! Just because you can get an AI app to draw a 10,000 foot runway at CYTZ doesn’t make it so. You debase your réputation by retweeting such BS.
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Please read and retweet the tweet below. It says it all.
Think of it this way: anything can be destructive at the wrong scale.
If you replace your residential street with a four-lane highway, you destroy your neighbourhood.
If you put a wrong-sized airport on a waterfront, you destroy it as a place for gathering, respite, and connection.
Ford’s expansion plan must be stopped. It’s another assault on the livability of our city, driven by someone settling old scores, who doesn’t care about the city as a thriving urban place.
We’re building a dense, urban, walkable city, and this airport expansion isn’t necessary. And it conflicts with that goal.
“This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.”
Neil Pasricha@NeilPasricha
Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney), I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront. I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony. When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake. Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario. Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4) Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7) Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8) Prime Minister Carney: It is not too late. Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake. We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this. We don’t need this. We can already go anywhere we want to go. I live right in downtown Toronto. I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow. I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year. In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11) Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins. Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar). We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here. If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country. We don’t want this. This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness. Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12) I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15) Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised. Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18) Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19) Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets. Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached) Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached) (Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … ) We can’t afford this. Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21) Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23) In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25) Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28) Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport. (Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?) Prime Minister Carney: We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this. Please say no to this expansion plan. Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake. At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33) Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do. The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country. Would New York City pave over Central Park? Would Paris put runways on the Seine? We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford. It's not too late. Please say no. 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(30) proquest.com/docview/301464… (31) #Early_life,_family,_and_education" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Ford… (32) theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/g… (33) youtube.com/watch?v=6pbVWy… // CC: Minister of Transport @SteveMcKinnon, Minister of Environment @JulieDabrusin, Mayor of Toronto @OliviaChow, MP @RunChiNguyenRun, MP @J_Maloney, MP @JulieDzerowicz, MP @Coteau, MP @Rob_Oliphant, MP @Vgasparro, MP @Yvan_Baker, MP @Jzerucelli, Ontario Minister of Transportation @PrabSarkaria, Ontario Minister of Infrastructure @KingaSurmaMPP, @PortsToronto, MPP @MaritStiles, MPP @JessicaBellTO, MPP @ChrisGlover, Councillor @BravoDavenport, Councillor @DianneSaxxe, Candidate @Massey_Toronto, @Nieuport, @JenniferQuinnTO, @Envirodefense, @BirdsCanada, @NoJetsTo, @CycleTO, @TheGlobeAndMail, @TorontoStar, @CBCToronto, @TheCurrentCBC, @BlogTO English
@cselley It’s not. They had to climb a fence to access the tracks
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Home of the free, my eye!
Dark Kate@KateBDoll
Dodgers “no fun” security made these fine lads put their tarps back on. Five thumbs down
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@jonkay She was on RDI Montreal crying the blues about how dangerous her life has become lately. Surprised they gave her the time of day. What a load.
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Tony Araujo retweetledi
Dangerous vigilantism. He should have left it to the police not to investigate.
ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/…
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Hey Doug. First bicycle lanes. Now speed cameras? Hands off. Torontonians elected a government to represent their interests not the interests of suburban commuters. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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