Politics
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UCS #83: Your Tax Dollars at Work
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: City of...
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LORINC: Uncomfortable conversations about road safety
The city’s Vision Zero team released its 2025 data yesterday and the trend lines are encouraging: overall, the number of traffic-related deaths — 39...
By John Lorinc -
21st Century Road Allowances
Yvonne was in her early 40s, with short brown hair and a solid build. She was taller than my 5’ 5” frame, but when I met her she was seated on the steps...
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UCS #82: Welcome to the New Year!
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Square 1 ...
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Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme?
Back in the summer, Therme went public with a somewhat perplexing development in its corporate life — a €1 billion merger of its two, somewhat related...
By John Lorinc -
UCS #81: Twas the Night Before Christmas
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Twas the night before...
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UCS #80: ABCD Vancouver logo
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: City of...
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LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto’s door
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6)...
By John Lorinc -
The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing
THIS EPISODE: Decommodifying Housing On previous episodes of this series, we’ve talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It...
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UCS #79 – Lonely But Not Forgotten
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Broadway...
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The Overhead: The Housing Crisis in Trump’s America
THIS EPISODE: The Housing Crisis in Trump’s America We can learn a lot about evictions and the housing crisis from cities in other countries, all...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 086, Lost Highways
In a snap election called ostensibly to decide which Ontario provincial party leader can take on Donald Trump, we sure have spent a lot of time talking...
By Spacing Radio