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The Ford government's deal with Therme shows the area around the spa will never truly be a public space, senior editor John Lorinc writes

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While the bulk of last week’s media coverage of Infrastructure Ontario’s curiously-timed disclosure of Therme’s lease focused on the financial terms and the mega-garage, the bits that most intrigued me have to do with a phrase that comes up dozens of times in this 297-page contract: “Therme Public Area.” During the too-ing and fro-ing over the configuration of this half-billion-dollar human aquarium, critics, including several experts on Waterfront... Read more

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