By John Lorinc
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LORINC: How to ground jets on the waterfront
Let’s play fill in the blanks: Jets are to the Toronto harbour as _________ is to Crimea. Okay, okay. I acknowledge the comparison may be over-reaching...
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LORINC: Mayoral candidates carve out positions on transit revenue tools
To tee up the surreal transit funding discussion that will take place at City Hall’s executive committee this week, here’s a quick recap on the...
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LORINC: Peeling back layers of Liberals’ democratic reform
Without question, last week’s vote on the ranked-ballot bill proposed by Scarborough Liberal MPP Mitzi Hunter represented a huge victory for the reformers...
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LORINC: Campaign Notes — Five-and-a-half Questions for Olivia Chow
Four in, and now we wait… In the hangover-like aftermath of last week — which started with a pair of jockeyed candidacy registrations and ended with...
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LORINC: Campaign Notes — Tory & Stintz are in & Doug Ford goes after Nick Kouvalis
Is “relief” the gravy metaphor for the 2014 race? Near the top of John Tory’s slickly designed website, it says the candidate “vows to build relief line....
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LORINC: Why aren’t we bundling transit into the Gardiner removal decision?
With the sort of discretion normally reserved for wait staff and funeral directors, Waterfront Toronto’s (WT) board very quietly released its...
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LORINC: What kind of transit plan will Tory present?
If you’ll pardon the cliché, that great sucking sound we’re all hearing these days is coming from John Tory’s almost-a-campaign team, the members of which...
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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...