By John Lorinc
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LORINC: The real Olivia Chow just stood up
Throughout this gruelling campaign, voters have been treated to the uninspiring spectacle of a progressive candidate who has spoken to them – us – in...
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LORINC: Lawsuits are no way to conduct a campaign
In an election featuring several highly competitive ward races, few have the mood of a grudge match quite as distinctively as the latest show-down between...
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LORINC: The election and the de-policing problem
In less than a year, tens of thousands of tourists, sports fans, and athletes will descend on Toronto for the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan American Games, a...
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LORINC: Rob Ford’s tragedy
Not for the first time, but never quite so intensely, I felt yesterday afternoon as if Toronto had become the backdrop (or chorus) in a modern day Greek...
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LORINC: Don’t count out Doug Ford just yet
The dominant media narrative in the wake of Friday’s mind-blowing events was that Doug Ford — to paraphrase Lloyd Bensten — is no Rob Ford, and therefore...
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LORINC: Forget Ford Nation, it’s Feudal Nation
Can you just substitute one for the other? For voters across Toronto, as well as those living on the steppes of Ward 2, the apparent promise at the centre...
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LORINC: The insanity of the election season transit debate
According to all the polls and the pundits, transit has become the top-of-mind issue in this year’s municipal election, and the candidates are all talking...
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LORINC: Ignore Ford at your own peril
On the first day of September, 2010, news reports about Toronto’s mayoralty race were dominated by matters both trivial and disconcertingly prescient...
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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...