Editorial
Worrisome costs at Pearson airport
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http://www.thestar.com/article/350294
Plane stupid
No wonder Pickering airport plan has new wings – transit review was
done by airport authority
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http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=162153
Draft figures show
Toronto's airport has higher fees, less efficiency than Vancouver or
Calgary
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http://www.thestar.com/article/346757
Pearson disputes
report finding airport inefficient
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http://www.thestar.com/article/350092
Airport or
agriculture?
Land Over Landings members discuss best use for airport lands
Tue Mar 11, 2008
PICKERING - The long-time
designation of lands for a possible airport in north Pickering has
actually turned into a golden opportunity, says a Brougham resident
and local historian.
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http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/pickering/article/95193
Airport business plan takes flight
Draft recommends seeking regional funding for Oshawa
airport
Feb. 05, 2008
Oshawa -
Two years after council debated closing the Oshawa
Municipal Airport, plans are underway to make sure
it sticks around for at least the next 25 years.
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http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/Oshawa/article/93313
A fox minding the henhouse
Jan. 26, 2008
The key to figuring out
why the Greater Toronto Airport Authority would rather build a new
airport in Pickering, northeast of Toronto, than help Hamilton
International airport grow, is seeing the authority for what it is.
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http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/315306
Revived Pickering airport plan: threat to Hamilton?
Jan. 25, 2008
Plans for an airport at Pickering have
resurfaced, raising worries it will be a threat to Hamilton's
economy.
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http://www.thespec.com/article/314736
News Release
June 19, 2007
Documents
Underline Transport Canada's Mismanagement of
Pickering Lands
New evidence of Transport Canada’s mismanagement of
the Pickering Lands has surfaced in documents
obtained by MP Mark Holland under the Access to
Information Act.
http://markholland.ca/news/2007/070619airport.htm
Tue, October 17, 2006
'People are growing old'
Pickering picket
supports those appealing evictions
By IAN ROBERTSON, TORONTO SUN
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/10/17/2048837-sun.html
MPs are periodically given the
opportunity to make a one-minute statement in the House of Commons
on any matter of concern. On October 5, 2006, Mark Holland addressed
the demolitions and evictions on the Pickering Lands.
Proposed Pickering Airport
http://markholland.ca/issues/airportso31oct506.htm
The Oshawa Presbytery (of
the United Church) passed a motion to petition the Government of
Canada to halt the current plans to development of an airport of any
kind on the lands in Pickering and to enter into long term leases
with the tenant farmers.
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September 19, 2006
OSHAWA PRESBYTERY
Simcoe Street United Church in Oshawa
Letter from Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon
to MP Mark Holland
http://www.markholland.ca/issues/cannonreply31aug06.htm
August 14, 2006 Minister must end silence on Pickering
Airport proposal -- Holland
http://www.markholland.ca/news/2006/060814airport.htm
Letter to Hon. Lawrence
Cannon, Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Communities
(May 3, 2006)
PDF
Honour government commitment on airport,
Holland tells Conservatives
“In recent months we made great progress on (issues regarding) the
proposed Pickering Airport and tenants, and former Transport
Minister Jean Lapierre made a number of clear commitments,” says
Holland. “I expect the new government to follow through on these,
and will be seeking a meeting with the new Transport Minister at the
earliest possible to discuss this."
Click here to read the full
news release PDF
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