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If you've spent any significant amount of time there as a pedestrian, you can almost hear the awful noise from the highway in those 'improved' pictures.

A lot of that is beyond the scope of the project and for good reason, it is not that significant given how localised a lot of the environmental impacts of these developments are (dose makes the poison, and in this case it's all about proximity). Also, induced demand is a thing for airplanes just...

Different types of categorisations. Labels that do not denote intentionality but suggest insensitive behaviour are fine by me, and in practice are pretty effective so long as they are aimed at political leaders and not at the general population.

Check the density of the neighbourhoods. Check also the density of the employment areas. Find out why those areas were zoned for commercial development in the first place, long after the airport was there. Consider the modal-share in each area. Consider air-quality levels in each area. Consider...

Yes, keep telling yourself it's the same. Burn some public health literature while you are at it. That'll show those 'experts'.

In this case it obviously does. That is is rightly surrounded by a gigantic buffer zone of low-density warehouses? Seriously, people.

He already used that strategy last time around, and he will use it again, and it will resonate with a lot of people unless we react to it differently. Tolerating homosexuals is one thing, endorsing the LGBT movement is another. It's the same with feminism, animal rights, anti-poverty activism...

If you were properly informed you would know it's not speculation. There's a reason why reports addressing impacts assume a higher share of slots will be used. The reports afford Porter a lot of space, so this is telling... but of course, you haven't read the reports. There are actually...

Right now airlines are limited to 202 slots per day, but they do not use them all because of technical limitations. Part of Porter's strategic plan linked to the expansion and the addition of jets was to increase efficiency and put up to 10% more planes in the air. Porter officials bragged...

I cross the rail corridor every day and it's a breeze. Crossing the highway on the other hand is a nightmare.

That jewel is actually from someone who now has a management degree. He is Canadian, although his background is Pakistani. There's many sensible and intelligent people in the suburbs, of course, but the amount of intolerance once you infiltrate certain circles is shocking.

This shows how much you know. Rob Ford did campaign on an anti-gay position, just not in the English-speaking media. But it's not just gays; it's cyclists, it's baristas, it's atheists, it's people who buy organic produce, it's independent outgoing women, it's environmentalists, it's university...

Right, that's why Rob Ford got trounced last time he ran for election... I lived in the outer suburbs recently (2008-2010) and made a point to socialise and understand as many people as possible over those years. I did not know anyone there to begin with, so I was not confined to any particular...

You are using 'oilsands'TM logic. Efficiency per passenger doesn't matter when you are significantly increasing the amount of passengers and increasing (or at best maintaining) the number of flights. The number of flights will not be reduced, and preliminary studies indicate flightpaths will be...

Porter wants to fly more planes, bigger planes, which use more fuel more often, and fly closer to the land, over essentially a bird sanctuary and next to some of Canada's densest residential and commercial districts, and expect most passengers - more passengers - to get there by car. The...

Sarcasm? That's exactly the attitude that got Ford elected in the first place, and which - by the way - I called in 2008 would get someone like Ford elected eventually.

Highways are great for business. After all, they helped Ford secure funding for the largest development in the history of this city: Woodbine Live.

I fundamentally agree with this, but it's also true that Western countries want to stand up to Putin anyway, and that Putin wants to solidify his power by defending what I'm sure is a hugely popular law. The point is that while raising the pride flag in Toronto for the duration of the...

I'm not suggesting that the Canadian flag was taken down, but rather that the city should have specifically, in the spirit of the Olympics, put one more token item in support of Canadian athletes up there (could be anything, really, but an extra Canadian flag would have done the trick). It can...

Have you seen the sort of non-sense that was used to promote the construction of these beasts in the first place? The current reports addressing the Gardiner situation are as objective as we've ever accomplished to make a report over the course of human history. As others have said...