By John Lorinc
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LORINC: John Tory’s not-so-hypothetical Scarborough Subway problem
After Olivia Chow’s horrible week last week, John Tory has seen his transit platform placed under a high-power microscope in recent days, with skeptical...
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LORINC: The mixed legacy of Karen Stintz
In many ways, Karen Stintz’s entirely predictable departure from the mayoral race last week provides a useful dose of clarity in a still confusing...
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LORINC: The obvious choice for Toronto’s next top cop
Say you’re a cop in your mid-40s, and you run a police force in a largish city in, say, the U.S. north-west, or the United Kingdom, or maybe even...
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LORINC: Desperately searching for a substantial debate over policing
Besides summer barbeques and pledges to keep the streets clean, there’s nothing quite so as predictable about Toronto’s civic elections as the politics of...
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LORINC: Rethinking the integrity commissioner’s role
According to media reports from last week’s marathon council session, Toronto politicians slapped Giorgio Mammoliti with toughest possible penalty for...
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LORINC: An adult conversation about transit, redux
Last week, I proposed in this space three key moves that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals could make to signal their seriousness about funding GTA transit...
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LORINC: How Wynne can repair Liberals public transit credibility
With premier Kathleen Wynne promising to move quickly to deliver a throne speech, re-introduce the budget that won her last week’s election and appoint a...
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LORINC: What Ontario election means for Toronto’s mayoral race
Last night’s stunning win for Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne will almost certainly trigger not one but two leadership races — Tim Hudak will get the boot...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 4: Won’t somebody think of Bombardier?
According to the November, 2012, master agreement signed by Metrolinx, the City of Toronto and the TTC, the four-line LRT project included a hefty order...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 3: Ignoring the projected high costs and low ridership
When Toronto city council convened in July, 2013, to make a clear decision on the Scarborough subway conversion, City staff provided an estimate on the...
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SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 2: “It’ll be over my dead body that Scarborough goes wanting for high speed transit”
On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political advocacy campaign by TTC...