Friends of Pickering Airport

2026

• 01/07 Canada’s Sovereignty Dilemma: F35 or Gripen Jets in a Changing World?

2025

• 11/23 Is Building out Markham Airport, Pickering Airports Plan B?
• 08/04 Toronto’s Economic Bottleneck: Airport Slots
• 06/29 Can Canada overcome a provincial mindset to build new airports?
• 04/15 Why was Pickering Airport Cancelled?
• 03/30 A Rabbit-hole of Pickering Airport Conspiracies opens wide
• 03/22 Southern Ontario Airport Capacity Study has Vanished!
• 03/13 New Canadian Airport Strategy can Beat Trump Tariffs
• 03/01 Canada’s $90 Billion Dollar High-Speed Rail obsolete before it is complete
• 02/19 Another accident at Pearson should be a teachable moment
• 02/02 Why stop Pickering Airports development now?

2024

• 10/03 Overcoming the Scarcity for Profit Corporate mindset
• 06/24 Passenger Recovery Snapshot
• 06/09 Let Pickering Grow – Revoke Airport MZO 102/72
• 05/05 The Meigs Field Massacre and Canadian Airports

2023

• 10/30 Pickering’s Union East Station – Intermodal Transit Magic
• 09/18 MEGATOR – Toronto in the year 2100
• 08/09 Federal Inaction Fueling a Housing, Productivity and Aviation Crisis in Toronto.
• 07/03 Time for an NHL expansion team in the GTA
• 06/25 The Goals and tactics of NIMBYism
• 06/16 Pickering Airport Passenger Routes Part 2
• 05/26 Pickering Airports role as a Hydrogen hub
• 05/19 Development plan with new Airport Wins vote 20 to 6 at Durham Region
• 05/16 Pickering Airport Passenger Routes Part 1
• 05/11 Farming and The Full Economic Development of the Federal Pickering Lands
• 05/08 What is Pickering Airport’s Employment Zone?
• 05/03 Can a Green Fee save Pearson Airport and surrounding businesses from Mayhem?
• 05/02 Monday Night BANANA Politics in Pickering
• 04/25 A Letter from the President of the Buttonville Flying Club.
• 04/19 Final Pickering Airport Capacity Study Airborne Again!
• 04/10 Can Aristotle help us understand recent Pickering Airport media coverage?
• 03/30 Why do Advanced Industries Locate Near Airports?
• 03/29 What are the Next Steps on the Path to Pickering Airport?
• 03/25 Philosophically Speaking…#3: A Pyrrhic Victory?
• 03/22 Philosophically Speaking…#2: Where’s the Business Case?
• 03/20 Philosophically Speaking…#1: Class 1 Farmland
• 03/16 Supporting Pickering Airport is the right path
• 03/10 Final Update – Aviation Recovers in 2023
• 02/28 In the name of Peace Order and Good Governance
• 02/27 Key Canadian Airports Are Carbon Neutral
• 02/12 The Real History of Pickering Airport
• 02/01 Federal Pickering Lands: The Solid Archaeological Knowledge Base
• 01/31 The Press and Aviation
• 01/12 Airports and the Global Economy
• 01/04 Reversing the growth of Toronto’s Air Travel Mayhem

2022

• 12/22 New Pickering Airport to cut your property taxes in half
• 12/11 A call for Support of the Strategic Vision of Aviation, Rail, and Road in Pickering
• 11/30 Does Toronto’s Growth Reduce Cropland?
• 11/06 The Moral Case for Pickering Airport 
• 10/04 On-Track for Full Aviation Recovery in 2023
• 06/11 Drones Over Ukraine
• 04/08 Aviation Empowering Canadians to Help Ukraine
• 03/29 Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation in Canada
• 03/16 News Flash:  Full Aviation Passenger Recovery in 2023
• 02/16 Canadian Oil Industry’s Net-Zero Vision Courtesy of Aviation
• 01/19 “The Big Lie” But Who is Telling It?!
• 01/05 eFuel: Aviation and Big Oil’s Plan for a Net-Zero Carbon Future

2021

• 11/24 Why Organized Labour Will Like Pickering Airport
• 10/18 Aviation’s Moment of Truth in Canada’s Post-COVID Recovery
• 09/04 Future Air Mobility – Complementing Public Transit
• 08/09 Just-Released FOI Provides Shocking Insight into Pickering Airport Fight
• 07/20 Buttonville Airport’s Closure Expected to Hasten Pickering Airport’s Development
• 06/24 Aviation to Beat Road Transportation to Net-zero Carbon Emissions with SAF
• 06/23 An incredulous respond to a question in Parliament on who is leasing the Pickering Lands
• 06/13 Explaining Canadas Sustainable Aviation Fuel opportunity
• 06/04 Passenger Aviation in the Toronto Region Will Recover Sooner than Expected
• 05/25 How e-Regional Air Freight will Change Everything
• 05/17 Understanding the Political Financing of Jennifer O’Connell, MP Pickering Uxbridge
• 05/02 New Luxury Tax Hurting Shift to Low Carbon Aviation
• 05/01 New Tax a Destructive Uninformed Assault on Aviation
• 04/24 e-Regional airlines and Pickering Airport
• 04/14 Planning Canada’s Electric Flight Future
• 04/12 Canada’s Biggest Post Pandemic Problem – Restarting Aviation
• 04/02 Did A Government MP give lobbyists a sneak peek at a confidential report?
• 03/26 Unleashing a Golden Age of Canadian GA
• 03/20 Proposed Markham Development Ignores the Future Pickering Airport?
• 03/05 Aviation’s Two Paths To A Net-Zero Carbon Future
• 03/03 Critique of the Land Over Landings Research Paper 11 – Indoor Farming and North Pickering
• 02/08 A Storm over a Pickering Airport skating Pond
• 01/30 A New Green Aerotropolis Takes Shape Near Toronto
• 01/29 Time to kill the Contrail Multiplier Zombie
• 01/25 Agriculture Leases in Rouge National Urban Park
• 01/15 Aviation 25% of carbon emissions by 2050 is a Myth
• 01/14 Failed Anti-Airport Petition raises big Questions
• 01/10 How Pickering Airport Will Save Lives
• 01/06 Why Building Pickering Airport is good for your Health

2020

• 12/29 Transform Pickering: The Airport Perspective
• 12/19 Pickering Airport, Social Media and Censorship in the Post Truth world
• 12/13 Is Parks Canada Being Set Up for a Nasty Surprise?
• 12/02 Assault on Oshawa Airport Misguided
• 11/25 We need Pickering Airport now!
• 11/11 Who is funding Anti-Airport Politics in Pickering?
• 11/06 They Have Crossed the Line!
• 10/26 Is an MP authorized E-Petition promoting Misinformation to reward supporters?
• 10/18 Saving the Businesses on the Pickering Lands
• 10/10 Who is Leasing the Pickering Airport Lands?
• 10/05 Supporting Aviation Key to Canada’s Pandemic Recovery
• 09/17 The New Aircraft of Pickering Airport: A Quest for Efficiency  
• 08/29 Misinformation to Stall Airport
• 08/07 Toronto’s Pandemic Recovery Will Require New Airport Infrastructure
• 07/29 Canadian Airports Will Be Carbon Neutral
• 07/19 A call for Transparency on Government land leases
• 07/06 Aviation Will Come Roaring Back!
• 06/27 CBC Misses the Big Story
• 06/18 Attack of the McMansions
• 05/14 Pickering Utility Airport Economics
• 04/12 $4 Billion in “Modest Expansions” Accounting
• 04/04 Ending the “Build Pickering Last” Strategy
• 03/25 Pickering Airport in a Post-Pandemic Toronto
• 03/19 O’Connell’s Baffling Misread Of The KPMG Report.
• 03/11 KPMG Report Reaffirms Need for Pickering Airport
• 03/10 Pickering Airport Featured in COPA Magazine
• 03/03 Business and General Aviation at Pickering Airport
• 02/27 Yes to Building Canada with Pickering Airport
• 02/15 Rail Blockades Reinforce Need for Pickering Airport
• 02/05 Canada’s Carbon Neutral Aviation Challenge
• 01/25 How Many Jobs Will Pickering Airport Create?
• 01/12 Surprising Aviation facts in the age of Climate Anxiety

2019

• 12/27 Trees and Pickering Airport
• 11/30 Can an EcoHack Cut Global Warming from Aviation in Half?
• 11/19 Pickering a Better Alternative to Oshawa
• 11/08 Greta’s Canadian Oops: Why Emissions Will Go Up If Flying Is Banned
• 10/03 What’s Inside The KPMG Pickering Airport Report?
• 09/20 Which Political Parties Support Building Pickering Airport?
• 09/09 Whitchurch-Stouffville Oddball Justifications for Opposing Pickering Airport
• 08/04 Via Rail and Pickering Airport – Harmony by the Numbers
• 08/01 Pickering Airport’s Heat Island Advantage
• 07/17 Pickering Airport Symbiosis with Passenger Rail
• 07/03 Pickering Airport Brochure: Facts and Considerations
• 06/30 Pickering Airport Facts and Considerations
• 05/29 SOMAC announced, GTAA joins voices calling for Pickering Airport.
• 05/17 Time to Get Real About Aviation and Global Warming
• 04/20 Does Canada’s New Carbon Tax Encourage Air Travel?
• 03/25 Toronto Dead last again: Pearson’s growing on time Performance Calamity
• 03/18 What is the real goal of a biased Pickering Airport Troll Poll?
• 03/02 Pickering Airport and CORSIA – Opening the door to a clean aviation economy.
• 02/10 Three-Part Harmony of the Pickering Lands Aviation Sector Analysis
• 02/04 When will the Pickering Airport Needs Assessment Analysis be released?

2018

• 12/27 What If The Gatwick Drone Attack Happened In Toronto ?
• 12/12 A Pearson MegaHub and Toronto’s Missing Airport
• 11/26 Exploring the intertwined future of Oshawa, Buttonville and Pickering Airports.
• 10/23 How loud will Pickering Airport be?
• 09/06 Will the Pickering Airport Cost Tax Payers Billions of Dollars a Year?
• 07/20 Will building Pickering Airport help or hurt Toronto’s food security?
• 07/09 Toronto’s Urgent Generation WOW Challenge
• 06/24 Why low cost carriers and their passengers will love Pickering’s new airport.
• 05/23 Will Toronto miss out on aviations green revolution?
• 05/17 Pickering airports urgent timeline
• 05/04 The Building Enthusiasm for Pickering Airport
• 04/23 Pearson airport’s slot capacity explored
• 04/13 Land Over Landings Billion dollar ask of the Canadian tax payer.
• 04/05 Will the GTAA be hurt when Pickering airport opens?
• 03/29 Is creeping risk the new normal for congested Pearson Airport?
• 03/21 Is Stouffville’s town council funding an airport misinformation war ?
• 03/04 Is Pearson airport reducing safety to increase capacity?
• 02/25 Are Pickering insiders setting up a multi-million dollar tax payer funded windfall?
• 02/19 Solving Torontos Jet noise problem
• 02/12 Pickering and Toronto’s Major Jet Airports.
• 02/07 The infrastructure paradox: How building Pickering airport can help fight global warming.
• 01/30 Does Land over Landings have a conflict of interest?
• 01/25 Is building Pickering better than building a sixth runway at Pearson ?
• 01/21 Is building out Hamilton airport a better idea than Pickering airport?
• 01/17 Why and how will the GTAA oppose Pickering airport?
• 01/13 Is Pickering airport another Mirabel?
• 01/12 Will Pearson airports planned congestion hurt Air Canada?
• 01/09 Managed congestion- the GTAA’s answer to its capacity problem.
• 01/02 Are the Pickering lands the best government investment ever?

2017

• 12/24 What does Heathrow style congestion at Pearson mean for Toronto’s future?
• 12/23 What is Pearson Airport’s Capacity Problem?