By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Ford’s flag flap flops
Monday morning pop quiz: As of first thing last Friday morning, how many Torontonians — or Canadians, for that matter — knew that city councils across the...
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LORINC: deBaeremaeker fans urban-suburban divide
After his over-the-top outburst at the end of council’s budgapalooza, I realized I had reached my lifetime dose of Councillor Glenn de Baeremaeker’s...
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LORINC: Ford’s land transfer tax fantasy
Mayor Rob Ford showed up to his budget show-down presser yesterday wearing a Denver Bronco’s jersey, and I suppose the logic isn’t hard to fathom. The...
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LORINC: Metrolinx and Accenture deny Presto-DC allegations
Metrolinx officials last week strongly denied that Accenture had leveraged its $700 million-plus Presto contract to win a $184 million/six-year deal for a...
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Presto technology sold to Washington, D.C. raises questions
Accenture, the $28 billion private contractor building the Presto electronic fare network, last week won a contract to construct a similar system for...
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LORINC: Toronto’s business community vs. Rob Ford?
For much of the past two years, University of Toronto urban geographer Richard Florida has repeatedly asked a probing question about the political...
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LORINC: Rise up, Toronto Nation
I am leaving for a long-planned three-week trip later today. As on the eve of all such journeys abroad, I am filled with anticipation about visiting...
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LORINC: From the Big Move to the Big Stall
Let me say this up front: I have enormous respect for Anne Golden and Paul Bedford. They both understand cities, and have progressive visions of what this...
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LORINC: City has upper hand with Island airport
In his first substantive move as council’s pilot-in-chief, deputy mayor Norm Kelly last week engineered a two-month deferral of the island airport jets...
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LORINC: Rob Ford, the media, and the Truth
Will Mayor Rob Ford’s bid for re-election become the place where political journalism goes to die? This question has been buzzing around in my mind ever...
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LORINC: Why an election is not such a bad idea
Doug Ford, during the engineered mayhem of yesterday’s council meeting, challenged the provincial government to call an election. Okay, Doug, I’ll bite...
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LORINC: Only Rob Ford could outshame himself
Former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said, famously, that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. But thanks to Mayor Train...