By John Lorinc
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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...
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LORINC: Turning Metrolinx’s revenue tools into jobs for low-income neighbourhoods
As Toronto’s surreal transit funding battle continues to spin out of control, the far-sighted, progressive-minded transit policies coming out of the Los...
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LORINC: Premier Kathleen Wynne Q&A with Spacing on public transit
In January, 2012, I asked in this space who was going to emerge as Toronto’s equivalent of Antonio Villaraigosa, L.A.’s gamechanging civic leader. During...
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Spacing’s John Lorinc talks Toronto casino on The Agenda tonight
Spacing senior editor John Lorinc will appear on The Agenda With Steve Paikin tonight discussing the dynamics of the Toronto casino debate. He will...
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LORINC: Transit revenue tools debate gets down to short strokes
Why have Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals suddenly started talking about capping tuition fee hikes (at 3%, down from 5%) and auto insurance premiums, the latter...