By John Lorinc
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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...
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What Philadelphia can teach Toronto about art, history, and public spaces
Among North American cities, few can boast the depth of history that’s on offer in Philadelphia. The compact downtown, plotted out by William Penn in the...
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SUMMER OF THE GUN: 10 years later, conclusion
By John Lorinc and Idil Burale In 2005, the Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Task Force made the following call to action: “No one – no family, no...
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SUMMER OF THE GUN: 10 years later, pt. III
By Idil Burale and John Lorinc In Toronto, we are good at starting things, but we tend not to follow through or evaluate them down the road. Even before...
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SUMMER OF THE GUN, 10 years later: Part I
In a four part series, Spacing’s senior editor John Lorinc and columnist Idil Burale look back on the “summer of the gun” in 2005. On...
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LORINC: Telling our story
Not for the first time, and certainly not the last, I came across a family of tourists in the subway the other day, trying to figure out how to get to...
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LORINC: Toronto’s connection to U.S. Supreme Court’s same sex marriage ruling
There’s a strange but compellingly human irony in that fact that last week’s momentous same-sex marriage ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court can be traced...
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LORINC: We were promised Tory The Consensus Builder
I know that many politicians are ardent devotees of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lovely old putdown, “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I also know...
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LORINC: I come to bury the Gardiner, not to praise it
Based on the speech by character Mark Antony in “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare. Friends, Torontonians, 905ers, lend me your cars; I...
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Why the Gardiner East terms of reference matters, a lot
With apologies to my readers who hate sports metaphors, this week’s city council showdown over the Gardiner may seem like overtime in Game 7 of a Stanley...
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LORINC: Can there be a Kumbaya moment for the Gardiner?
In the wake of the intense session at the public works committee, the Gardiner East battle was joined by North York councillor James Pasternak, who is...
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LORINC: Tearing down Gardiner East is all in the numbers
Does the melodrama over the projected two- to ten-minute delay that may occur due to the removal of the lower portion of the Gardiner resemble a farce...