By John Lorinc
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LORINC: waiting for the other shoe to drop on inclusionary zoning
In what seemed like one in a series of tactical policy announcements meant to burnish their progressive bone fides, Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals last week...
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LORINC: Transit relief is long way down the road
If you have kids or once were one, you may have recognized the tactic that York Region’s politicians attempted last week when they scurried off to Ottawa...
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LORINC: Airport and Portlands to be transit hubs of activity?
All of a sudden, two glimmering celestial objects have appeared in the night sky above that fantastical dreamscape we sometimes refer to as Greater...
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LORINC: Tell me how Toronto will pay for transit plans — then I’ll get excited
A few years ago, University of Toronto Schools teacher Josh Fullan and I concocted a transit game for the students in his Maximum City program. Each group...
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LORINC: How the City plans to pay for services in the future
The 2016 budget debate, which lands today at executive committee after doing the usual rounds, has offered up a curious mix of urgency and its opposite...
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LORINC: All the evidence points to more stalling
And lo, after the people of the town had spent these six long years wandering blindly in a stormy and seemingly ceaseless night, a young messenger named...
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LORINC: Which track is Smart Track on?
One of the enduring features of Toronto’s so-called transit debate is the uneven and treacherous information terrain that ordinary citizens are forced to...
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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...