LORINC: The future of Ontario Place must become an election issue

The only thing worse than the design proposed for Ontario Place’s indoor spa mega-project is the fact that a firm with such a... Read More

LORINC: Does Toronto need strong mayor powers or just a strong mayor?

Over the 16 years prior to the news last week that Premier Doug Ford’s Tories are planning to impose so-called strong mayor... Read More

Mayor John Tory was out and about late last week, talking up what was billed as a plan to revive the city’s economy but which... Read More

Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123... Read More

Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go... Read More

Because this is Toronto, and because it’s important for officialdom to do certain things backwards, we’re going to spend... Read More

Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop... Read More

Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort... Read More

It being election season (and Earth Day), the Ontario government news releases are arriving a dime a dozen right now, and many seem to... Read More

Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor... Read More