The Toronto
Coalition to Ground the Air Show
is a group of Toronto citizens who are concerned about the massive impact of the CNE
's annual Canadian International Air Show on civic life.
Every Labour Day Weekend the skies over Toronto are filled with the ear-splitting, window-rattling sounds of low-flying warplanes.
This is an unnecessary and unwarranted intrusion into the lives of young children, people who have experienced the horror of war, those who work nights or are ill, or anyone who simply wants to enjoy the last weekend of the summer.
Airshows over urban areas are a gratuitous source of noise and air pollution, a threat to public safety, and idealize war.
Coalition to Ground the Air Show is a group of Toronto citizens who are concerned about the massive impact of the CNE's annual Canadian International Air Show on civic life. Every Labour Day Weekend the skies over Toronto are filled with the ear-splitting, window-rattling sounds of low-flying warplanes.
This is an unnecessary and unwarranted intrusion into the lives of young children, people who have experienced the horror of war, those who work nights or are ill, or anyone who simply wants to enjoy the last weekend of the summer.
Airshows over urban areas are a gratuitous source of noise and air pollution, a threat to public safety, and idealize war.
Dear wealthy first world countries (afterall the rest of emerging economies or third world); we no longer need to have airplanes and car races (both track and off road ) anymore - I realize the airshows are about showing our enemy about our wing power; and car races (motorcycle as well) are about testing the cars in the field - but time to shift our thinking and stop burning fossil fuel with little or no utilitarian purposes. And while we are banning this how about leisure boats, sea doos, leaf blowers etc etc. Time to stop the old way of thinking!
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