By John Lorinc
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LORINC: The digs of R.C. Harris
Anyone venturing by the Queen Street side of Old City Hall in the past couple of weeks may have noticed a small new plaque in front of E.J. Lennox’s...
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LORINC: Building a better residents association
We live in a society where individuals aren’t regulated in the ways in which they participate in (legal) group activities — from reading groups to sports...
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LORINC: Slaying the NIMBY beast
It took council and city planning officials almost exactly a year to adopt a policy meant to make Toronto’s abundant, overpriced and increasingly...
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LORINC: Is Toronto missing the middle or missing the mark on housing?
A thought experiment: Imagine Toronto is a big city experiencing a housing affordability crisis and steadily worsening polarization. Municipal officials...
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LORINC: Council fails accountability test on defunding the police
For all the heat and light generated by Monday’s debate over defunding or detasking the police, the compromise — or compromised, depending on your...
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LORINC: The pandemic is sacrificing community spaces in places of faith
The long-awaited partial re-opening, which finally began in Toronto and Peel earlier this week, is a story with two aspects: on the one hand, a reunion...
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LORINC: The pandemic is about cities
Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
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LORINC: Police can’t find road to reform even when given a map
Would Regis Korchinski-Paquet be alive today if the Toronto Police Service (TPS) had adopted the recommendations of a sweeping 2014 review of its flawed...
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LORINC: What’s in a street name? Dundas and other uncomfortable truths about our city
The street where I live, near St. Clair West and Christie, was originally called Victoria after it was carved out of a farmer’s field or replaced a cow...
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LORINC: What will transit look like in a post-pandemic world?
For years, transit advocates warned Toronto politicians in all three orders of government that the city’s transit infrastructure will forcefully slam into...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs steps away from Toronto waterfront
From the earliest days of Sidewalk Labs’ bid to establish a beachhead on Toronto’s waterfront, the cultural mismatch, for lack of a better term, was...
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LORINC: The need for local democracy during a pandemic (and are residents tuning out?)
A guy at the park where I take my dog after dinner said the other night that he’d heard the traffic on the 401 last Friday was almost rush-hour like. I...