By John Lorinc
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
LORINC: The Wychwood Barns, Sam’s sign, and how we know what heritage means
Not long after I moved into the St. Clair West area, in the mid-1990s, I heard about a City-run consultation on the future of the long shuttered TTC car...
-
LORINC: Wynne offers up Murray as Scarborough subway punching bag
If the latest skirmish over the Scarborough subway had a leitmotif, it was that of the minister as loose cannon. “Ontario’s transportation minister [Glen...
-
LORINC: Union Station re-visited, part II
It’s sometimes said that surgeons and commercial pilots out-distance all other professions for sang froid and audacity. But if I had to make another...
-
LORINC: Union Station, re-visited
As we walk carefully along a catwalk suspended high above the railway platforms at Union Station, David Swanson, Metrolinx’ senior construction supervisor...