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- By the people, for the people?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.
- Constraints on Expansion - Island Airport Master Plan Reveals Fatal - Facilities Can't Cope with Existing Volumes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Toronto Port Authority yesterday released its new 'Master Plan' for the Island Airport. "This isn't so much a 'plan' as a list of unsolvable problems." said Brian Iler, Chair of CommunityAIR.
- Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
- Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
- Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
- The Hike Ontario Guide to Walks Around Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 199
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
- Ken Greenberg on Island Airport Expansion and Shared Values
People sometimes get amnesia - we forget the battles we fought to get where we are
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We are once more on the verge of making one of those decisions that comes along every generation that will have a profound impact on the shape of the city.
- Let Islanders Stay
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The service the Ward and Algonquin residents now render the people of Metro is valuable. There is no way the quality and continuity of this community's concern for the Islands and their users could be obtained solely from Metro employees and marina watchmen and guards.
- Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
- More Than an Island
A History of the Toronto Island
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A thorough history of the natural, social, political, and economic history of the Toronto Island.
- Nature on the Toronto Islands: An Explorer's Guide
Resource Type: Article
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
- Toronto Island
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Article in the August-September 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Toronto Islands
Plant Communities and Noteworthy Species
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Utopia: Towards a New Toronto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Torontonians begin to see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens' heads. "uTOpia" aims to capture and chronicle that spirit, collecting writing by many of the people inspired by and involved in the developing projects.
- Why Saying No to Toronto Airport Expansion Makes Sense
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Saying no to the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport and introduction of jet aircrafts is the economical, ecological and socially responsible thing to do.
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