Volunteers communicating the need for Pickering Airport
At around 2 pm on Monday, February 17th, a passenger jet with 80 people crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in high winds. The airport was closed for hours, and some runways will stay closed for days, reducing capacity. Fortunately, thanks to the quick response of the fire crews and the professionalism of the […]
On Monday, a surprise dramatic announcement took place that could cost taxpayers billions. Canada’s Transport Minister, Anita Anand, said the Federal Liberal government has decided against allowing the development of Pickering Airport. Minister Anand’s promised to transfer the “vast majority” of federal land set aside for economic development and an airport to Parks Canada. This […]
By Ted Nickerson & Mark Brooks Way back in 1972, after the federal government assembled the lands in Pickering for a future airport, the province established 5 Minister’s Zoning Orders (MZOs). The goal is to further protect for an airport by restricting uses on lands beyond those Pickering lands. In the past, as the future […]
Do you remember the future? Flying cars, high-speed trains, and robots servicing our every whim? The Greater Golden Horseshoe or just the “Toronto Region” to the rest of the world, has been Canadas golden child of growth since the 1970s. For decades the region has been an unstoppable economic engine fueled by immigration, industry, and […]
This year the Las Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team founded only six years ago, won the Stanley cup. How did a desert oasis in Nevada, with a population less than half of the 6.3 million of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), achieve something that Toronto hockey fans have been waiting 56 years for? Torontonians […]
May 17th, 2023, a landslide vote in the Durham Region council chambers approves of the new Pickering airport’s important role in the region’s economic development. The new airport is part of the region’s Official Plan, a plan that is the culmination of years of work completed through the Envision Durham process, the Municipal Comprehensive Review of Durham’s […]
Did the April 24th, 2023 Pickering City council meeting go absolutely BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) over a motion playing municipal politics with a federally mandated new airport? While the city has little control over if and when the airport is built, that did not stop two local councilors from putting forth […]
Pickering Airport is One Step Closer to Reality By: David Sprague, President Buttonville Flying Club April 22, 2023 Toronto: Recently, members of the Buttonville Flying Club attended a series of publicly held municipal planning meetings. On behalf of the 200 plus members of the Buttonville Flying Club, part of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, […]
The need for a new airport in Pickering is back under the magnifying glass of Transport Canada in what could be its final needs assessment. Launched, then withdrawn, the study is now back on. Nothing it seems can stop the final Pickering airport study from getting airborne. The Minister of Transport himself, the Honourable Omar […]
The new Pickering airport is a critical part of Canada’s future economic and aviation infrastructure. Yet the stories recently appearing in our local press rarely mention this. They do not quote aviation or business organizations and rarely touch on the benefits of the airport. Instead, they are covering the topic with a political focus. Why […]
