By John Lorinc
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LORINC: The time to plan for the driverless revolution is now
During a week when the city was buzzing with thousands of tech types here for the ritual in-gathering that is the Collision conference, it seems...
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LORINC: Want affordable housing? Then Ford shouldn’t sell publicly-owned land
To my eye, the Ford government’s housing “action plan” — which was released late last week in a conspicuously over-stuffed news cycle that also included...
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LORINC: After Toronto loses the game of chicken with Doug Ford
A tweet from the Globe and Mail’s Jeff Gray aptly summarized the noisy feud that broke out last week over the Ford government’s move to cut $1 billion...
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LORINC: 61 questions for Doug Ford
In deference to my forebears, and with a nod to the onset of this spring’s seasonal traditions, I’d like to pose the following question: What makes this...
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LORINC: Doug Ford draws a subway map
Okay: credit where credit’s due. First, “Ontario Line,” as a brand, works just fine for me — even, as is likely, if we won’t have termini at either the...
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LORINC: Delaying delivery of waterfront transit
Amidst the symphony of transit yodeling that will emanate today from Queen’s Park — and then, in call-and-response, from City Hall and perhaps even Ottawa...
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LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns
With Doug Ford’s Tories systematically confiscating Toronto council’s capacity to govern – from political representation to transit planning and even our...
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LORINC: Why is Sidewalk Labs so Interested in Your Health?
With the new Waterfront Toronto (WT) directors now officially on the job, the re-constituted board should ask itself why Sidewalk Labs — ostensibly a...
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LORINC: How to reframe Toronto’s 2020 budget debate
I imagine Mayor John Tory, like all good conservatives of his generation and breeding, worshipped at the alter of Michael Wilson, the storied Bay Street...
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Ford, Sidewalk Labs, and all the moving parts on Toronto’s waterfront
Through his brief career as a city councillor and now as premier, Doug Ford has returned repeatedly to the fantasy that the private sector will happily...
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LORINC: What’s the big idea behind Housing Now?
John Tory’s executive committee convenes today to consider, among other items, the fleshed out implementation strategy for the first phase of his Housing...
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LORINC: How reducing development charges will spur the ‘missing middle’
While city council tries to figure out how to confront a made-in-Toronto housing affordability crisis, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has...