Alex Sochaniwskyj

Country boy, pilot, sailor, engineer, scientist, professor, cook and chief bottle washer

[Stephen Wickens 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @StephenWickens1]

No matter where you stand on Billy Bishop airport expansion, the apparent fact that lobbyists for secretive private capital have been granted far more influence over local decision-making than the voters of Toronto should scare the bejeezus out of you. https://t.co/DfalMkRJAG

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

This whole Billy Bishop expansion is being driven by an American bank that won't even disclose its role in the lobbying campaign. Doug Ford is destroying Toronto's waterfront to help out American bankers at our expense.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: We attack military targets in Russia, or their energy, which they sell to fund war. Russians deliberately target civilian objects: museums, schools, apartments. They destroyed this Chornobyl museum that we built for 40th anniversary just one month ago. Crazy assholes.

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

200,000 people live on Toronto’s waterfront.

A supersized Billy Bishop jet expansion would dramatically increase pollution and put their health on the line: from cancer, to heart attacks, to asthma.

I asked the Minister of Transportation if he had investigated this. Several times.

With no answer.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

“We have already gone through so much. Through pain, through losses, through destruction.
Every Ukrainian has felt this war personally. Every family has its own story of suffering.
But we did not break. And we will not break.”

"Nobody will break us"

- Volodymyr Zelensky🇺🇦

They will have my support until victory and beyond🫡❤️

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

Stephen King: ‘Putin thought he was dealing with a lapdog, but it turned out he was facing a wolverine. Glory to Ukraine!’

[Parks not Planes @ParksnotPlanes]

These Toronto councillors want the province’s Billy Bishop airport plan added to the October ballot — if the province will let them https://t.co/lZnhfcPiJM via @torontostar

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Leaders are not those who seek safety for themselves, but those who, in moments of fear, become a shield for others🫂
Zelensky has become a symbol of the will of a nation that refused to fall.

Absolute respect 🫡❤️

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

He could have ran away.

He stayed and led Ukraine in its darkest hour.

He could hide in a bunker.

But he visits the troops at the front.

He gets insulted and belittled by men not fit to shine his shoes.

He doesn’t respond.

He just does what is best for Ukraine.

Hero.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SENATOR KELLY: Nobody wants this war to end more than Ukrainian people. One of the barriers to peace is that Trump not provided the support Ukraine needs. He refuses to press Putin, backed off on sanctions, and not put pressure on Russian government with tools we actually have.

[Retired. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦 + 🇩🇪 🕊 🇺🇦 @TPS_32Planner]

The Toronto Island Airport expansion looks worse every day. Almost 3/4km of approach lights in the water at EACH end of a runway that's going to be almost 1km longer than today! We don't want your stinkin' airport @fordnation

@TheThanigasalam @gary_srp @NeethanShan @MarkJCarney

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

Meet Carmine Nigro, @fordnation's close friend.

Nigro’s company sued Metrolinx for $500 million over land that they didn’t even own. They settled for an undisclosed number.

Why is it that Ford’s friends are getting rich while you struggle to afford groceries?

#onpoli

[Jennifer Olchowy UKRCDNgirl @ukrcdngirl]

@C_Mulroney @southlakehlth @townofeg @YorkRegionGovt @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP @Sflecce @ToddJMcCarthy @MichaelParsa @MurphyGallagher Wow....$10 million...for an entire community

Should we be impressed considering ONE plane for doug cost Ontarians $29 million....

How many millions did Ontarians lose this time because of a decision you all made?

#onpoli

[Ron Jenkins @RonAJenkins]

Lake filling a jet runway will hugely impair water circulation through the Inner Harbour, doubling water residence time, causing stagnation & concentrating pollution.
Why undo billions spent to improve Toronto's water quality?
See TPA's own EA on 2013 Porter Proposal for proof.

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

Former Liberal minister Greg Sobara said Billy Bishop airport plan is “a serious degradation of the Toronto Islands & Toronto's waterfront … I am appalled by the collective silence of the Toronto Liberal caucus members on this matter” https://t.co/bZd3ibgDmL #onpoli #cdnpoli

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

Parking lots and massive runways shouldn’t pave over what we love on our city’s waterfront. There’s a balance of uses now between the existing airport, nearby parks and livable communities. We can’t let Doug Ford screw it up.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Russian asset Trump has removed all military assistance to Ukraine from the $1.5 trillion U.S. military budget. Ukraine is the only fighting defender of the West against russian armed aggression.

Trump gets his orders from the Kremlin and obeys without question. He is a traitor.

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Zelenskyy:

“If JD Vance is proud of not helping us, it means he's helping the Russians, and I'm not sure that strengthens the United States.”

🎯

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "Biden gave $350 billion to Ukraine. This was insane. It’s one of the reasons the war went on."

U.S. aid to Ukraine is not the reason the war continues. It continues because Russia invaded Ukraine and, every day, makes a conscious choice to keep waging war. If they all go home, we won't follow, you know?

​If he means that without U.S. help, especially in the beginning, much more Ukrainian territory would have been occupied and turned into one gigantic Bucha, then yes, he's probably right. But occupation doesn't end war, it merely masks war crimes and silences the victims.

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

It only gets worse as details are revealed. The runway at Billy Bishop would need 900 meters of new landmass on Toronto’s waterfront for jets. To put this one in perspective, the height of the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, is only 829.8 meters.