By John Lorinc
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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...
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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...