By John Lorinc
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LORINC: John Tory’s mayoral dilemma
If you situate your views in the political middle or slightly to the right, and if you find yourself disgusted with Rob Ford’s four-year three-ring...
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LORINC: How to keep Metrolinx honest
If you listen closely to critics of the Metrolinx Big Move investment strategy, there are two distinct, although closely related, arguments about why this...
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LORINC: What will be Doug Ford’s legacy?
It struck me over the weekend that when I look back on this four-year hallucination known as the Ford administration, I will be summoning up a composite...
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LORINC: Diversity at city hall no longer our strength
Question: If Mayor Rob Ford had replaced Jaye Robinson with Frances Nunziata on the executive committee yesterday (note to procedural geeks: I know this...
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LORINC: Glen Murray talks transit revenue tools with Spacing
Everyone knows that Mayor Rob Ford likes revenue tools about as much as the Pride Parade. But when federal Tory finance minister Jim Flaherty waded...
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LORINC: Fourth quarter and Team Ford is down by a few
If you lived inside Rob Ford’s brain these days, what kind of thoughts would you expect to see floating by? After watching the revolving door spectacle...
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LORINC: The Big Move revenue tools revealed
This is the second of two columns by John Lorinc today as Metrolinx announces the revenue tool recommendations for The Big Move. Read the earlier column...
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Spacing and Innovative Research transit poll: Skepticism on revenue tools
This is the first of two columns by John Lorinc today as Metrolinx announces the revenue tool recommendations for The Big Move. John filed an update after...
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LORINC: On Ford, Lastman, and the casino
As I watch the fifty-car-pile-up that is Rob Ford’s mayoralty, I sometimes find myself wondering, what would Mel Lastman have done in the same...
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LORINC: City Hall’s transit double negative
Does being in favour of not being against something represent a fervent expression of support? Do two wrongs make a right? Is the enemy of my enemy my...
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LORINC: Whatever became of Toronto’s first priority neighbourhood?
Almost a century before the United Way’s Poverty by Postal Code report (2004) begat the City’s “priority neighbourhood” strategy (2006), Toronto officials...
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LORINC: Waterfront Toronto parachutes into the Island airport jets debate
Later this morning, Waterfront Toronto (WT) will release an economic impact study, the latest in a series of analyses [PDF] that seek to show how the...