Finding ways to protect our air, water and public spaces – 2026 BQNA AGM

Save the date!

Wednesday, June 3 – 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The BQNA 2026 Annual General Meeting

At the Toronto Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre in the Dance Studio

627 Queens Quay West (Queens Quay & Bathurst St.)

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Our Parks. Our Waterfront. Little Norway Park.

Finding Ways to Protect our Air, Water and Public Spaces

BQNA’s upcoming Annual general meeting on Wednesday June 3 features an evidence based/knowledge sharing panel providing facts and answering questions about the impact of a jet airport on our air and water quality and the value of protecting our access to nature and parkland.

Confirmed speakers are Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou, scientific co-lead of our neighbourhood’s Air Quality study with the University of Toronto. Ron Jenkins, a life-time member of the National Yacht Club and a Director of Waterfront for All, a coalition of groups interested in the Waterfront’s future. Dr. Samantha Green, Board President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), Family Physician at St. Michael's Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Marianne will present findings of a three year intensive NSERC funded Air Quality collection study of our community in partnership with the BQNA, the City of Toronto Planning and Public Health departments and Billy Bishop Airport.

Ron will make a visual presentation showing the infrastructure needed to support jet aircraft and the effect it could have on marine navigation, water quality, and water flow into the harbour and lake.

Samantha will speak on ways she advocates for climate action to improve the health of her patients and their community and the important link between positive health outcomes and people's connection to nature.

Please share this blog post for the June event. We look forward to providing an update on BQNA’s achievements this year along with insight from our panel.

Guest panelists:

Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou

Tier 1 Canada Transportation Research Chair and Co-lead BQN Air Quality Study, University of Toronto

Ron Jenkins

Western Waterfront Director, Waterfront for All and Lifetime Member, National Yacht Club

Dr. Samantha Green

Dr. Samantha Green: Board President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), Family Physician at St. Michael's Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

A separate on water event being planned for early July – a flotilla of kayaks and canoes starting at Harbourfront Centre and travelling west past the busy Music Garden to the east side of the Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre and an onshore community gathering in Little Norway Park or at the WNC afterwards.