By John Lorinc
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Election 2026: Olivia Chow and the post-election safety file
Lost in the aftermath of Olivia Chow’s shock-and-awe victory last week — in which she beat Brad Bradford by almost 130,000 votes and prevailed in...
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Election 2026: A failure of political imagination
A 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...
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London, Paris, Toronto: A tale of three biking cities
I spent some time in the past couple of weeks in London and Paris, and there’s an emerging point of contrast between these two alpha-cities that has...
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on...
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Election 2026: The inter-governmental elephant in the room
In the hall-of-mirrors that is the current mayoral election, as my colleagues John McGrath and Matt Elliott noted, we had the following weirdness last...
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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...