{"id":34615,"date":"2026-03-11T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-take-control-of-torontos-stake-in-city-airport-lands-ford\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:07:12","slug":"ontario-to-take-control-of-torontos-stake-in-city-airport-lands-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-take-control-of-torontos-stake-in-city-airport-lands-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to take control of Toronto&#8217;s stake in city airport lands: Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will take control of Toronto\u2019s stake in the island airport.<\/p>\n<p>He says the province wants to expand the runways to allow some types of jets to take off and land at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only turboprop planes can use the downtown airport.<\/p>\n<p>Ford says the city needs two airports to compete with other cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The land the airport is operating on is governed by an agreement between the city, the federal government and the Toronto Port Authority, which is a federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>The airport move is the latest in Ford\u2019s vision for Toronto\u2019s waterfront, where he is spending billions to rebuild Ontario Place and is also looking for a spot to build a massive convention centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/projects\/2026\/03\/ontario-to-take-control-of-torontos-stake-in-city-airport-lands-ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will take control of Toronto\u2019s stake in the island airport. &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario to take control of Toronto&#8217;s stake in city airport lands: Ford\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-take-control-of-torontos-stake-in-city-airport-lands-ford\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario to take control of Toronto&#8217;s stake in city airport lands: Ford\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-34615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}