By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Toronto needs a real race for mayor
Doug Ford’s strange weekend victory in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race serves to clarify much of the muddiness that’s swirled around...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs launches its dog and pony show
Beginning this week, Torontonians will start to hear a lot more from Sidewalk Labs Toronto as the company, a subsidiary of Google/Alphabet, embarks...
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LORINC: Why a TTC commuter will get killed at Yonge-Bloor station
There is, in this city, a person going about their business today who will die after being accidentally shoved in front of a moving subway at Yonge and...
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LORINC: City needs to be thoughtful on how to run Museum of Toronto
UPDATE: The executive committee adopted the report, with an amendment from Scarborough councillor Paul Ainslie, asking city staff to “consult with...
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LORINC: Wynne’s Liberals gut their own affordable housing policy
Remember when inclusionary zoning was going to solve Toronto’s affordable housing crisis, or at least take a big step towards ameliorating it? Let’s...
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LORINC: Can John Tory Turn the Page on the Shelter Crisis?
I haven’t observed a political crisis this ripe with potential since that weird interlude during the 2008 credit meltdown when the leaders of the federal...
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LORINC: New subway extension overshadows other important transit news
All the hype and posturing that accompanied this weekend’s subway opening effectively obliterated a bit of news about a small transit infrastructure...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs has hit a roadblock
The City of Toronto last week clearly signaled to Waterfront Toronto (WT) that the tripartite development agency drastically overstepped its mandate by...
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LORINC: Board of Trade pitches myth of free transit
Among all the forms of magical thinking that infect the region’s political culture, none are as pernicious — or persistent — as the myth of free transit...
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LORINC: St. Clair Reservoir Toronto’s other ‘palace of water’
Toronto Water’s ongoing efforts to complete a state-of-good-repair overhaul on the St. Clair Reservoir, under Sir Winston Churchill Park, could be...
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LORINC: Toronto’s demographics and the 2018 city election
With next year’s municipal vote now less than a year away, the pre-election positioning has begun in earnest – the most recent example being a pitch by...
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LORINC: Let’s talk about Sidewalk Labs’ $50 million investment
In May, when Waterfront Toronto (WT) issued the RFP for Quayside that culminated in last month’s agreement with Sidewalk Labs, the agency made no specific...