By John Lorinc
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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...
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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...