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Comment on Allan Sparrow

Peter Holt — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:08:47 GMT

What's not to like... would've liked to see a bit more about Sue and Marc... a bit more about the Island community and downtown neighbourhood preservation, a bit more about his and their friendship with Jane Jacobs, the ugly story of Allan's struggle for civilian oversight of the police... and more about his novel... and more about stuff about him that I don't know about... but hey, I liked it... heck... Allan probably wrote it! I am looking forward to hearing more about what is planned for September 5th. Btw, 32 years ago, Allan was my Best Man... what more can I say?

Comment by Peter Holt on Allan Sparrow

Comment on PORTER AIR MARKS EARTH HOUR BY LAUNCHING SERVICE TO NEWARK

Mary — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:50:18 GMT

Brilliant!!!

Comment on Deluce still Dreams of the Bridge to the Island Airport

David Smiley — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:26:26 GMT

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.

Comment on Deluce still Dreams of the Bridge to the Island Airport

David Smiley — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:26:09 GMT

Comment on It's just a drawing, but it's a nice drawing!

Glen Newbury — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:55:08 GMT

Why, because we are impotent citizens in the face of larger interests? Or because we should subsidize a money losing proposition or a private monopoly (a la the exclusion of Jazz)? Or the ever-growing number of people that live nearby enjoy wafting in the fumes and listening to planes doing 5:30 am preflight engine revs?

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.

Comment on TWO NEW SPONSORS OF CAIR FUNDRAISER

Barbara Malcolm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:29:11 GMT

Coach Canada/Greyhound/
Voyageur Bus Lines might be interested in sponsoring.
And perhaps Toronto Harbour Boat Tours.
And how about the Empire Sandy?

Comment on TWO NEW SPONSORS OF CAIR FUNDRAISER

Barbara Malcolm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:28:58 GMT

Coach Canada/Greyhound/
Voyageur Bus Lines might be interested in sponsoring.
And perhaps Toronto Harbour Boat Tours.
And how about the Empire Sandy?

Comment on It's just a drawing, but it's a nice drawing!

Steven — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:28:35 GMT

You...do know you're not going to be able to shut the airport down...right?

Comment on Globe and Mail article March 4, 2008

Brian Iler — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:28:14 GMT

I agree - I said something similar to Jeff Gray - the Globe reporter who ran with the story:
"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."

Comment on Globe and Mail article March 4, 2008

Barry Lipton — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:54:57 GMT

It seems highly unlikely that there would be that much excess glycol that it would form a "mist". The planes one from Montreal and one from Ottawa both had "smoke" reported coming from their landing gear in the CADORS report.
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