Politics

LORINC: Desperately searching for a substantial debate over policing

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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”

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On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political... Read More