By John Lorinc
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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...
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Missing the boat on the Queen’s Quay East LRT… again
Because civilization is rapidly collapsing and we all need something positive to cling to, the Ontario election campaign moved rapidly into the...
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The 2025 budget and Toronto’s bursting real estate bubble
For years, Toronto’s finance officials have dutifully added an annual footnote to their budget documents, cautioning readers that a portion of the...
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Follow the money to Ontario Place
The Ontario auditor general’s review of the Ontario Place scandal contains enough muck to start an industrial-scale pig farm, with plenty left over...
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The high cost of on-street parking
In case you hadn’t checked recently, there are, according to the Toronto Parking Authority’s very helpful “Find Parking” map, no...
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LORINC: Singing the gridlock blues
How does one know if the main street running through a neighbourhood, or on a route to work, is becoming more congested? There is a steadily noisier...
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Dead man/woman/child cycling
Somewhere in this city, there’s a cyclist going about their business who will die in a terrible accident — perhaps sooner, perhaps later — because...
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Toronto to Ford: Stay in your lane
There are few elected officials who understand the politics of driving, with its brain stem triggers, quite as acutely as the Fords — first Rob, who...
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Watch this space
While the bulk of last week’s media coverage of Infrastructure Ontario’s curiously-timed disclosure of Therme’s lease focused on the...
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Why is the Board of Trade shilling for The Big Doug?
There are so many sensible reasons to not build a Toronto by-pass tunnel — what we at Spacing have dubbed `The Big Doug’ after Boston’s...
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LORINC: The public space embarrassment that is College Park
When College Park (pictured above) formally re-opened, in 2019, the City of Toronto put out a rather breathless press release on what had been achieved in...
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LORINC: Booze in the corner store
Until the mid 1970s, you couldn’t buy lottery tickets in Ontario. Ontarians could go to the horse races and place bets; the ponies, after all, have...