By John Lorinc
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LORINC: The housing planets align
The housing file, as everyone knows, is burning hotter than the forests in western Canada, but might this issue be having a moment? I’m struck by a...
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Olivia Chow’s revenue tools plan is the sound of one hand clapping
There’s plenty to applaud about the proposed revenue measures that will go before an emergency session of Mayor Olivia Chow’s executive...
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LORINC: The great expectations of Olivia Chow
It’s been a heck of a long time since a new mayor took office with the goal of doing something to build the city, as opposed to halting something...
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What awaits the new mayor
By this time next week, the City of Toronto will have a new chief magistrate, and likely (thankfully!) the first mayor who will be situated somewhere to...
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MAYOR’S RACE: What’s missing from the housing debate
As in so many other fast-growing big cities, housing affordability has become Toronto’s ur-issue — the crisis that touches absolutely everything...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Will the next mayor slay Toronto The Good?
In the middle of a mayoral by-election that includes an idiotic sub-plot about park drinking, Ontario officials yesterday served up this gem: under an...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Toronto’s not very green election
With 102 candidates on a ballot that may look more like a scroll than anything else, you’d think someone would be talking about carbon, and what the...
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MAYOR’S RACE: A Saunders mayoralty and the coming crisis of police oversight
By this point in our unwieldy mayoral by-election, it should be crystal clear that the standard bearer for the inevitable law-and-order campaign is Mark...
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EXCLUSIVE: What is the source of Therme’s financing?
When Infrastructure Ontario executes public-private partnership arrangements, there are numerous permutations — design-build-finance-maintain, outright...
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LORINC: Fourplex on the Council floor
Chicken Little, it would appear, has left the neighbourhood. In an 18-7 vote, city council yesterday approved the development of four-plexes as of right...
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MAYOR’S RACE: The twisted politics of Toronto’s byelection
Are you, dear reader, keeping it all straight? Like a river that has overtopped its banks with a sudden spring melt, the mayoral by-election has rapidly...
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MAYOR’S RACE: We need to talk about Doug
I have no idea what Ontario Place will look like in 2118, but I feel confident in predicting that Therme Canada’s 65,000 sq.-m human aquarium...