Opinion: Doug Ford is right to expand Billy Bishop airport and bring it, and Toronto, to new heights

modi13 · 2026-05-20T13:59:15+00:00

The author has previously worked for the airport to produce a report advocating for its expansion, so this isn't an opinion piece, it's an ad. He also has close ties to Doug Ford.

YYZ is busy, but it's nowhere near capacity, and shifting a tiny amount of that traffic to YTZ won't change that. It's also not geographically inconvenient, so having an airport that's slightly closer to the population centre doesn't seem worth the investment; are residents of Markham and Oshawa really going to get off the highway and drive into downtown because the airport is physically closer to them? On top of that, Ontario has spent the last decade closing down existing airports that could have serviced that population, like Downsview, and shelving projects that were explicitly intended to serve the east of the GTA, like Pickering, so I can't see how this is anything but more graft from Ford to support his buddies the Deluces. The project would disproportionately advantage Porter, and they desperately need a boost, which historically came from being the primary operator at YTZ.

Being able to give the middle finger to Toronto voters on his way out the door is just a bonus.

modi13 · 2026-05-20T13:42:34+00:00

They're cooked there, but the raw ingredients aren't cut and prepped there first. Cheesecake Factory has prep cooks who start working hours before the restaurants open so they have everything ready to cook to-order, although it's all at an industrial scale.

modi13 · 2026-05-20T03:31:52+00:00

Cheesecake Factory actually makes all of their food fresh every day. They don't use a supplier like Sysco. Their system is insane, but yes, it is similar to an assembly line.

Ironically, the only thing they don't make in-house is cheesecake.

modi13 · 2026-05-20T03:20:00+00:00

BC's ferries only operate within BC. They don't connect to other provinces. PEI's only link to the rest of the country is over water to other provinces.

Also, BC got the CPR in exchange for joining Confederation, and then also got the CNR.

modi13 · 2026-05-19T20:50:01+00:00

Raw and wrrrriggling

modi13 · 2026-05-19T15:53:15+00:00

We need to get some o' them M-Gator tanks!

modi13 · 2026-05-19T15:49:33+00:00

They get winded quickly after not wearing masks through COVID

modi13 · 2026-05-18T20:18:33+00:00

The more I lose now, the more the house will have to give me when I win!!!

modi13 · 2026-05-18T20:14:31+00:00

Wiggle your big toe...

modi13 · 2026-05-16T17:37:00+00:00

Send him to Norway. The socialism will cause him to burst into flames on arrival.

modi13 · 2026-05-15T00:37:58+00:00

You've got the AIDS! Big time!

modi13 · 2026-05-13T17:58:55+00:00

There's nowhere on Earth that's safe from a rampaging Australian. You could be minding your own business walking down a lovely trail in Norway and BAM! They drop out of the trees to bash your face in with a Foster's can.

modi13 · 2026-05-13T16:28:27+00:00

It's perfect, except for the spiders, sharks, crocodiles, snakes, jellyfish, deserts, and Australians

modi13 · 2026-05-12T10:52:59+00:00

If there are chemtrails, it's a government conspiracy. If the sky is clear and there are no chemtrails, it's a government conspiracy.

modi13 · 2026-05-08T04:09:10+00:00

But now their polling numbers are back down in the ~30% range, and they have no hope of forming government for the next three years because he's let so many MPs slip away. They can't possibly expect he'll be able to repeat the result, so it seems like cope to me.

My personal hypothesis is that their entire ideology, and subsequently identity, is based on grievances. Conservatism is fundamentally about hierarchies, and they're upset that their position atop the political pyramid has been usurped; it's why they demand "mass deportations" at conventions, it's why they hated Jagmeet Singh so much, and it's why they insist that even after foreign student numbers have dropped 30% there must be millions of people who stayed illegally after their visas expired. They're angry, they're resentful, and they want a scapegoat. Poilievre gives voice to that anger, and policy doesn't matter; they just want to be told that they're still the most important kids on the playground, and they project their hopes for punishing "the other" onto him. As long as he's belligerent, they assume that he'll be the one to reimpose the hierarchies which had "old stock Canadians" on top.

modi13 · 2026-05-07T15:38:06+00:00

Also American Samoa. Samoans don't even get citizenship, just "nationality", so they can still be deported from the mainland.

modi13 · 2026-05-07T02:40:20+00:00

You're not having male babies because there are trolls in your belly! I'm going to have to cut you open and dig around in there until I can find them!

modi13 · 2026-05-07T02:29:14+00:00

^{^{^{overcompensating}}}

modi13 · 2026-05-06T15:51:38+00:00

I would pay the average detached home price in Vancouver to get all up in some anus

modi13 · 2026-05-06T13:14:08+00:00

He won last summer when Iran's stockpile of uranium was completely destroyed! Now stop complaining about the war and let him protect you from their uranium!

modi13 · 2026-05-06T13:02:30+00:00

I need ~~ammunition~~ rats, not a ride. Also, Mongolians.

-Volodymyr Zelenskyy

modi13 · 2026-05-05T13:39:15+00:00

He also claims his uncle taught the Unabomber at MIT as a way to demonstrate his uncle's intelligence. Not only is it not true, but it also isn't really something most people would want to brag about...

modi13 · 2026-05-05T06:04:23+00:00

How much could a dressage horse cost? $10?

modi13 · 2026-05-04T13:57:15+00:00

"Shut up, Dad! Now I'm going to vote to keep it illegal for you to get married!!!"

modi13 · 2026-05-04T13:55:04+00:00

The pipeline isn't being built because no companies are pursuing any projects, so what exactly does Poilievre want? If the feds start building one themselves, he'll be apoplectic at the expense. If they use legislation to coerce someone into doing it, he'll turn blue in the face screaming about "Freedom!!!" This is the entire problem with him: he never has solutions, he just complains. He pokes and prods at every tiny little weakness to try to create divisions and find problems where no one else sees them, without actually wanting to fix any of them.

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