By John Lorinc
LORINC: Desperately searching for a substantial debate over policing
Besides summer barbeques and pledges to keep the streets clean, there’s nothing quite so as predictable about Toronto’s civic... Read More
LORINC: Rethinking the integrity commissioner’s role
According to media reports from last week’s marathon council session, Toronto politicians slapped Giorgio Mammoliti with toughest... Read More
LORINC: An adult conversation about transit, redux
Last week, I proposed in this space three key moves that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals could make to signal their seriousness about... Read More
LORINC: How Wynne can repair Liberals public transit credibility
With premier Kathleen Wynne promising to move quickly to deliver a throne speech, re-introduce the budget that won her last week’s... Read More
LORINC: What Ontario election means for Toronto’s mayoral race
Last night’s stunning win for Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne will almost certainly trigger not one but two leadership races — Tim... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 4: Won’t somebody think of Bombardier?
According to the November, 2012, master agreement signed by Metrolinx, the City of Toronto and the TTC, the four-line LRT project... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 3: Ignoring the projected high costs and low ridership
When Toronto city council convened in July, 2013, to make a clear decision on the Scarborough subway conversion, City staff provided... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 2: “It’ll be over my dead body that Scarborough goes wanting for high speed transit”
On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political... Read More
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 1: The political movements behind the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway... Read More