Election 2026: A failure of political imagination
Olivia Chow could've run a campaign focused on standing up to Queen's Park — she didn't, and now we have to live with the potential consequences
By John LorincA week ago, I saw a widely shared photo of a pair of cyclist demonstrators planted in the middle of the now destroyed Bloor West bike lane, staring down a phalanx of cops, and my very first thought was, wouldn’t it be great if Toronto‘s municipal leaders stood up to the author of this desecration the way these two ordinary residents did? Alas, we don’t live in that world, do we? At no point in any of the Ford government’s repeated and obscene incursions into the... Read more
