By John Lorinc
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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...
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LORINC: Ford bobbles the media
Mayor Rob Ford is a politician who deals in pure, uncut intuition. After that entertaining little sideshow yesterday about his branded swag, what could be...
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LORINC: Ford family dynamics at heart of fiasco
In 1991, the American author Jane Smiley published “A Thousand Acres,” a devastating novel about a mid-western farm family – an aging pater familias, and...
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LORINC: A drinking and driving mayor — the last call for Ford?
While the most discussed and potentially salacious details in the court documents released last week focus on alleged drug transactions and that...
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LORINC: The challenges Stintz faces in her mayoral bid
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Eglinton-Lawrence councilor Karen Stintz announced on the weekend that she would be challenging Rob Ford in next year’s...
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LORINC: Gardiner’s future a gift to Ford election bid
I’d like to pose an impolite question to the talented officials at Waterfront Toronto (WT) and their dedicated colleagues in the City’s waterfront...
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LORINC: The War on LRT has begun
In the aftermath of a council debate that showcased some of the most venal and short-sighted political decision-making I’ve ever witnessed at City Hall, a...
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LORINC: Mr. Soknacki Goes to City Hall
Hello, viewers out there. It’s time for yet another installment of…. (drum roll)… “Let’s Make A Decision!” with your co-hosts Rob Ford and Karen Stintz...
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LORINC: Subway Nation rises again
Ever the shrewd tactician, Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper delivered one heck of a chess move yesterday when he and finance minister Jim Flaherty announced...