By John Lorinc
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What Brasilia’s “Bike Reporter” can teach Toronto cycling advocates
As a young man, Afonso Ventania raced bikes competitively, but retired at 26 and decided to go into journalism. He spent several years covering sports and...
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Want an alternative to a 401 tunnel? How about incredibly reliable GO bus service
Giant hairy-chested capital projects have an uncanny ability to commandeer public attention — the latest choice example, of course, is the Big Doug, about...
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Reversing the Ford government’s biking backlash
At a time when Washington has launched a scorched earth attack on virtually all federal climate policies, the Ford government’s hyper-partisan...
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A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to...
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The politics of beautification and decongestion
How should a city solve major problems without allowing the proposed solutions to inadvertently prevent the solving of said major problems? This...
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Q&A: Cheryl Thompson on her new book about Canadian blackface
Cultural historian and Spacing contributor Cheryl Thompson launches her new book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, tonight at 6:30 pm at A Different...
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Judge puts Ford back in his lane
Ontario superior court justice Paul Schabas this week granted an interim (“interlocutory”) injunction preventing Queen’s Park from...
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Cities are missing topic in the 2025 federal election campaign (UPDATE)
There’s nothing even the least bit surprising about the fact that cities, or urban affairs more generally, have had so little play in the federal...
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The housing sub-plot in the federal election
Though it seems like an eternity ago, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives circa 2023-24 desperately wanted this election to be about the ruinous cost...
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LORINC: The coming American brain drain will be Canada’s gain
In the face of the relentless ratcheting up of the Trump administration’s economic assault on Canada, we’ve seen basically three types of...
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LORINC: Don’t alienate civic volunteers
In case you missed it, the Toronto Star‘s Ben Spurr on the weekend published a deep dive into the brawl that took place at Moss Park Arena — not on...
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High speed rail arrives at a low speed… again
It’s curious and quaint how successive generations of federal Liberals rekindle their (rhetorical) affection for high-speed rail (HSR) at almost...