By John Lorinc
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Brad Bradford’s glaring judgment problem
By John Lorinc Spacing So, here we are on the eve of the firing of the starter’s pistol for the mayoral race, and Brad Bradford is already mired in...
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The power of positive thinking, Toronto’s version
I can’t remember a moment when split-screen politics was quite as pronounced as it is right now. Consider: On Friday, the federal Liberals put Doug...
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LORINC: Brad Bradford continues his ‘city-is-on-fire’ routine
I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa Square â€...
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LORINC: Toronto becomes RogersTown
Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of over-concentrated sectors (banking...
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Brad Bradford’s name blame game
By now, most City Hall watchers know that Brad Bradford has selected, as a pointed wedge issue, a proposal to rename Sankofa Square while simultaneously...
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Howard Moscoe and the limits of municipal power
At this week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Olivia Chow will move a motion to develop a plan for commemorating the veteran North York city councillor...
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Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn’t so hard, was it?
In well under a year, which is like the blink of an eye in City of Toronto time, a plan to pedestrianize that portion of Church Street bisecting The...
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LORINC: Mayoral candidates need to take on King Doug
The granite-hard conventional wisdom about the looming U.S. mid-term congressional elections is that they’ll be a giant referendum on Donald...
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LORINC: The finicky business of planning Ookwemin Minising
The City of Toronto and Waterfront Toronto have been futzing around with the zoning for Ookwemin Minising, formerly Villiers Island, for going on a decade...
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LORINC: A clarifying moment for this fall’s mayoral race
News dropped this week that Anthony Furey, the right-wing broadcaster turned occasional candidate, has graciously withdrawn from the 2026 mayoral race in...
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How did FIFA’s free Fan Fest suddenly become a ticketed event?
Given the recent deluge of BS from local FIFA organizers, I wonder if Mayor Olivia Chow realizes she’s strayed into the middle of a political...
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LORINC: Toronto’s repackaged progressivism on menu at City Hall
A thing I didn’t have on my bingo card for 2026: that City-run grocery stores would suddenly become an all-encompassing symbol of municipal...