By John Lorinc
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LORINC: What if City Council actually talked about buses?
Bad choices beget more bad choices. If I lie on a government form, I will almost inevitably have to dissemble more in order to ensure the continued...
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LORINC: Fixing the federal vote
If the federal Liberals have endured anything even faintly resembling a controversy so far in these early halcyon days of their majority, it occurred over...
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LORINC: Why UberHop will help the TTC
When I look at the wonderfully clean map that Uber has provided for its new jitney service, it’s not hard to see how frustrated commuters from transit...
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LORINC: Revenue Tools — The Force Awakens?
Notwithstanding his conversion this week on the toll road to Damascus, Mayor John Tory’s looming financial problems were abundantly visible to anyone who...
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LORINC: Have Toronto police learned anything at all about de-escalation?
The shouting about Paris and the ugly political aftermath has made it difficult to hear almost everything else that’s taking place in our world, including...
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LORINC: How to invest with Crosstown’s found money
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let’s just rewind a bit, past Wednesday’s Trudeau-palooza, to that interesting little moment last Tuesday when Ontario’s...
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LORINC: Spend Brampton LRT money on Queen’s Quay East
When Brampton council voted last week to kill a rapid transit line that would not have cost the city an, um, red cent, one thought sprang immediately to...
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LORINC: Trudeau and Canada’s next urban agenda
If I had to pinpoint a moment when this exhausting election made an important but subtle shift – the place where the ocean liner’s captain turns the...
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LORINC: Why this Canadian election is like no other
As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives inflict their limbic system politics on voters who are somehow unable to see themselves as pawns in the hands of a gang...
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GARDINER EAST: Using the rail corridor to crack the highway riddle
The Gardiner East Follies returns for yet another extended run at City Hall beginning on Tuesday morning, when city officials present three scenarios for...
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LORINC: Faced with backlash on refugee stance, Conservatives keep digging
Over the weekend, according to media reports, the Conservative’s election crisis response to public outrage over Ottawa’s handling of the refugee crisis...
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LORINC: Why the Tories’ mean-spirited refugee policy has awoken urban Canada
Like many Canadians, I was riveted to the point of distraction by the extremely disturbing events of last week, and the way the developments in Europe’s...