2008-12-02T13:19:22Z http://blog.communityair.org/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-05-12:1039697 Peter Holt http://www.torontoisland.org 2008-05-13T08:08:47Z 2008-05-12T18:03:46Z
Comment by Peter Holt on Allan Sparrow]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-04-04:944313 Mary 2008-04-04T12:50:18Z 2008-04-04T12:50:18Z tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-25:918871 David Smiley 2008-03-30T08:26:26Z 2008-03-25T16:39:32Z We are continuing our Friday demos every week from 5:30 to 7:30. We occasionally take a week off (last Good Friday) but we have over 70 demonstrations behind us.

Jerry & Leida are away for the next 6 weeks so we need some more folks to come out and help us keep the beat. You don't have to drum but it is fun. We entertain ourselves as we hold the vigil and show our resistance to the presence of the airport. With a few more participants we could more effectively distribute our fliers.

Almost every week someone new turns out in response to the ad in Now. Sometimes it is a student in a journalism course, sometimes it is an activist that is curious. We need to keep spreading the word and sometimes we get to say hello to Robert Deluce.

So come on out in this improving weather and play with us.]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-25:918799 David Smiley 2008-03-30T08:26:09Z 2008-03-25T16:10:04Z
Jerry & Leida are away for the next 6 weeks so we need some more folks to come out and help us keep the beat. You don't have to drum but it is fun. We entertain ourselves as we hold the vigil and show our resistance to the presence of the airport. With a few more participants we could more effectively distribute our fliers.

Almost every week someone new turns out in response to the ad in Now. Sometimes it is a student in a journalism course, sometimes it is an activist that is curious. We need to keep spreading the word and sometimes we get to say hello to Robert Deluce.

So come on out in this improving weather and play with us.]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-24:915587 Glen Newbury 2008-03-24T11:55:08Z 2008-03-24T11:55:08Z
I'd like to be more positive about it and think the airport closing would be a very good for Toronto. It will help the revitalization that has been occurring in the city core.

City centered airports are a thing of the past like multi-storied highways, lead in paint & CFCs.

The land would have much better use as parkland, entertainment, education or mixed-residential.

Take Chicago for instance, they had the sense to bulldoze their downtown airport. It helped them, I believe it will help us.]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-21:910203 Barbara Malcolm 2008-03-24T11:29:11Z 2008-03-21T15:23:50Z Voyageur Bus Lines might be interested in sponsoring.
And perhaps Toronto Harbour Boat Tours.
And how about the Empire Sandy?]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-21:910198 Barbara Malcolm 2008-03-24T11:28:58Z 2008-03-21T15:20:48Z Voyageur Bus Lines might be interested in sponsoring.
And perhaps Toronto Harbour Boat Tours.
And how about the Empire Sandy?]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-16:897684 Steven 2008-03-24T11:28:35Z 2008-03-16T20:58:42Z tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-11:886530 Brian Iler 2008-03-24T11:28:14Z 2008-03-11T16:43:52Z "Thinking a bit about that explanation - it seems a bit odd – de-icing has happened a lot this winter, and one would therefore expect to see such a report frequently, or not at all. If it’s that common, why would anyone bother to report it – and twice in the space of several minutes?

And these are planes landing – one would expect that all deicing fluid would have been blown off on take-off, or dripped off during the hour-long flight.

Again, odd."]]> tag:blog.communityair.org,2008-03-05:874948 Barry Lipton 2008-03-05T22:54:57Z 2008-03-05T22:54:57Z Each plane had been de-iced an hour before and had taken off. During the take off phase excess glycol is blown off the plane by the force of the wind stream.
Something seems to be missing in Porters explanation]]>