By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Dedicate foreign-buyers tax to social housing
The latest spitball fired in the ongoing pissing match between the City and the province came from the new Liberal housing minister, Etobicoke MPP Peter...
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LORINC: Does TCHC even know the extent of its fire risk? Part III
Update: Joe Cressy, Trinity-Spadina councillor and a member of the Toronto Community Housing board, on Tuesday provided Spacing with fire fatality...
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LORINC: How safe are Toronto’s high-rises? Part II
In the aftermath of the Grenfell blaze that killed a still undetermined number of Londoners, many people in Toronto began asking the question, could it...
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LORINC: Are Toronto’s high-rises safe for seniors? Part I
This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the challenges faced by residents of Toronto Community Housing Marjorie MacMillan, a retiree who lives in the Toronto...
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Pam McConnell 1946-2017: A true public servant
In 1997, just months before the old City of Toronto was swallowed up into the chaos of amalgamation, Pam McConnell, who then represented an east-end...
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LORINC: Waterfront announcement is a game-changer
Later this fall, Spacing will publish a small compendium of pivotal civic turning points in our collective history – “25 Days That Changed Toronto.â€...
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LORINC: Understanding how the TTC won North America’s top transit prize
When the TTC announced on Monday that it had won the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) award for outstanding achievement for 2017, many...
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Toronto’s strange climate change plan in the age of Trump
When U.S. president Donald Trump announced last week that he’d decided to abandon the historic Paris Accord, national and sub-national governments around...
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LORINC: The politics of the minimum wage
One of the more curious differences between the powers of American and Canadian cities has to do with the former’s ability — and willingness — to impose...
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LORINC: No relief in sight when it comes to subways and politics
In the bonfire of the vanities that is transit politics in Greater Toronto, it is often difficult to identify who is the biggest bozo. Take, for example...
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LORINC: Why the Libs’ planning mistakes are fuelling the GTA’s real estate madness
Until the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) released a new report showing that a shortage of supply wasn’t, in fact, the culprit in the speculative...
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THE WARD MUSICAL: Songs and Sounds of a Lost Toronto Neighbourhood
If you try to imagine your way back into the early 20th century streets and laneways of The Ward — the dense immigrant enclave razed to make way for...