Excellent analysis of the island airport jet proposal by UofT Professor Emeritus of Management Sandford Borins, including the fact that Pearson can ultimately handle 100 million passengers! With Pearson’s LIFT, Why Expand Billy Bishop? www.sandfordborins.com/2026/05/14/w... #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

“Stopping this jet scheme should be a no-brainer. It wouldn’t require complicated or costly strategies or consultation processes on the part of the federal government. All it would take is Ottawa saying that it doesn’t support the move. End of story.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli

Sign & share! The Feds are holding all the power here. We need this nonsense stopped in its tracks. Toronto isn’t livable without a waterfront. It is the compensation & relief for traffic, noise, etc. It’s an increasingly beautiful -tourist expanding-health promoting-treasure we need to protect!

This is a genuine House of Commons petition. Please sign

IT TURNS OUR BILLY BISHOP AIRPORT IS ALREADY OWNED BY AMERICAN COMPANY AND IT IS NOT MAKING ENOUGH PROFIT SO THEY HAVE ASKED FORD TO HELP. FORD NOW WANTS TO TAKE OVER OUR ISLANDS AND LAKE ONTARIO AND SELL IT TO AMERICAN COMPANIES. AND GET A FEW M.

You know else has referred to the airport as a ”very hot potato” on the same day that Porter announced there intention to have jets back in 2013? The Program Manager, Aerodrome Standards for Transport Canada at the time. This from an FOI that NoJetsTO got in 2014.

As the controversies over the future of Billy Bishop Airport continue to evolve, here's a recent piece I wrote for Toronto Today (@torontotoday.ca) on the many attempts to expand the island airport. Spoiler: they almost never succeed. #TOHistory #TOpoli #onpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...

Today NoJetsTO is launching a Federal E-Petition! Sponsored by @elizabethemay.bsky.social, it calls for the government of Canada to say no to jets at the island airport and save our waterfront! Sign now: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

Thanks @normsworld.bsky.social for launching this e-petition (and @elizabethemay.bsky.social for sponsoring it) which calls on @mark-carney.bsky.social to say no to jets at Billy Bishop Airport. Please sign & share widely. #NoJetsTO #cdnpoli #ONpoli #TOpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Thank you all for signing NoJetsTO’s petition in BIG numbers; up to 27,000 signed! It’s because of you that we’re getting increased attention to the issue from our elected leaders. Let’s keep up the pressure! Sign here and Save Toronto Island! win.newmode.net/nojetsto/sav... #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

The new Ontario Place, now including a provincial police station with highway patrol and horses. A great park in the making!

Save Toronto Island! Premier Ford has expropriated the entire Toronto island for his jet scheme. Sign our petition and tell your elected rep to abandon this terrible plan at NoJetsTO.com! #topoli #onpoli

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Ford is seizing control of almost all of the land on the Toronto Islands as he tries to ram jets at the island airport down our throat. #ONpoli #topoli

PRESS RELEASE: NoJetsTO Condemns Announced Expropriation of City Owned Airport Lands and the Expropriation of Little Norway Park as part of Bill 110. “Ford plans to take our land, pave our park, and leave Torontonians in the dark” mailchi.mp/nojetsto/pre... #topoli #onpoli

Note that a brand new version of this jet sells for $32 million, just a bit more than they paid for a used model. Also, could a reporter please look into who the former South American owner was?

Based on these numbers, there's no way that they will recoup their (our) investment. Current Market Aircraft on Market 7 Percentage on Market 6.8% Average Asking Price $17M Asking Price (High) $17M Asking Price (Low) $15M Average Sale Price $19M Sale Price (High) $20M Sale Price (Low) $18M

We were all outraged about Doug Ford's private jet. So much so that he's done a rare reversal and promised to sell the Gravy Plane "as quickly as possible". Here's something else to be mad about: It looks like they GROSSLY overpaid for the jet in the first place. www.bjtonline.com/aircraft/bom...

Great turnout at @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social & @ausmalik.bsky.social Waterfront Town Hall, featuring @maritstilesndp.bsky.social @kristynwongtam.bsky.social, Peter Tabuns, @waterfront4all.bsky.social & MPP Gilmour & @jessicabellto.bsky.social; Watch: www.youtube.com/live/nWVMyIU... #topoli #onpoli

Citizens of the following #Canadian provinces currently under #CONservative (mis)management, #Alberta, #NovaScotia and #Saskatchewan, please take note of this Ford flip-flop in #Ontario. He only did this because of regular people expressing deep outrage. We need more of this to turn the tide!

Doug Ford Sin no.1: Secrecy. Everything he’s doing is in secrecy. Mob mentality. And it’s getting worse. Totalitarian or fascist? (BTW Doug, you never had any say about Quebec aircrafts, stop it. They are converting them into air ambulances)…. So…. They are for Healthcare… hint, hint.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Doug Ford is so envious of The Government of Canada aircrafts that he might cross floor to the Federal Liberals anytime soon! BTW the Federal Government aircrafts were not bought in secrecy. It was always well explained to Canadians. Not the Dougie Express 650.

NoJets for Duggy F and NoJets for Billy B

HAHAHAHAHAHA now imagine what would happen if we could similarly capture the attention of the press/public with any of the other undemocratic, corrupt excesses doug ford is foisting upon us at the same time

I know some of this is a distraction, but Ford does repeatedly cave to pressure, so let's keep it up.

Now let’s get him to leave regional chairs elected and accountable to voters in the region

We did it! We stopped the Gravy Plane! Let’s keep fighting to save our waterfront from jets. #onpoli #topoli

I’m almost impressed that the five neurons in Doug Ford’s brain coordinate this level of corruption, repression, nepotism, and tyranny. I bet Witkoff and Jared are looking on in admiration.

Doug Ford ('s Taxpayers) Buys A Private Jet youtube.com/shorts/HBzTV...

@normsworld.bsky.social this would be hillarious if Doug wasnt so dangerously stupid

And Carney supports it. You all always forget that part.

Face Ontario, the Premier “we” elected is an out and out corrupt thug. Incompetent yes, but that’s a distraction from the cash he’s distributing to himself and his friends from provincial coffers. I’d love a supporter to tell me how he’s fundamentally different than Trump?

Tracking Ford’s interest in jets at the island airport 2018: No mention 2019: No mention 2020: No mention 2021: No mention 2022: No mention 2023: No mention 2024: No mention 2025: No mention 2026: Buys a jet and calls for jets at island airport Coincidence? We think not! #onpoli

I love that the term "gravy plane" could be what finally sticks to Doug after 10+ years of him being Teflon man.

Ontario Orbán gifting himself a gravy plane. So much faster to get to the nice big cottage his construction cronies built for him...

Funny, this was my first thought.

I am so tired of Doug Ford thinking that we're all as dumb as he is.

Given the history of certain phrases in Toronto/Ontario political history, Dougie was practically begging for this to be called the “Gravy Plane”—absolute perfection In turnabout as fair play. 💯

My, and likely everyone’s first thought. Ford is so damn corrupt.

"The timing of Ford's purchase of his taxpayer funded "Gravy Plane" and his sudden interest in expanding the island airport is not a coincidence"

#AirFordOne #GravyPlane #OnPoli #Corrupt #DougFord

Ontario transportation policy: literally just whatever would make Doug Ford personal trips easier. to the cottage? 413. anywhere along the 401? express tunnel under it. to Ottawa? runway expansion at Billy Bishop. pure, stupid corruption + total inability to imagine how to make ones own life good

NoJetsTO PRESS RELEASE: Doug Ford's "Gravy Plane" the real reason for Ford's sudden interest in jets at the island airport mailchi.mp/nojetsto/gra... #topoli #onpoli

Y'know, I had plenty of suspicion that Doug Ford Paul Calandra was, at his core, a fragile misogynist whose egos cannot tolerate being asked reasonable questions by a woman, but damn, are they small. Also nice lack of backbone from R*g*rs Sports and Media. #CanadianSky

My comments at the Planning and Housing Committee today, where @joshmatlow.bsky.social moved a study of how island airport jjet flight paths would impact much needed housing. #topoli #onpoli

If you’re on Instagram, follow @TinaYazdani She rightfully goes hard after Ford and his government. It’s no surprise Ford may have got his friends at Rogers to drop her. I suspect she won’t go quietly.

Ontario allowing elected trustees for public optics — ya know, to pretend that it’s a “democracy”. 😑 #OntEd ”The Ford government announced Monday it will cut the number of elected school board trustees and limit their responsibilities, months after threatening to eliminate the position altogether.”

Another Canadian news organization decides it would rather be in the ad revenue business than in the news business. Shame on CityNews.

Excellent reporting from Tina Yazdani for @thetrillium.bsky.social. This follows her abrupt firing from @citynewstoronto.bsky.social where she covered Queen's Park. Several of her stories were also deleted. Can only surmise Ford and Calandra demanded someone who'd stop asking smart questions.

Tina Yazdani got fired?? WTF, @citynewstoronto.bsky.social?

Uhh did our minister of education just get a provincial reporter fired for reporting on him?