By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Who’s going to be the grown-up on the Eglinton Crosstown?
Every fiscal conservative in this city should thank TTC chair Karen Stintz for daring last week to speak truth to power about the Eglinton Crosstown...
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LORINC: How Los Angeles found religion on transit: A lesson for Toronto?
This just in: thanks to the fiscal disciplinarians in the Ford administration, the TTC will be able to sock away $135 million for transit vehicles. Can we...
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LORINC: Labour vs. the City
Monday morning pop quiz: Is the labour relations ball in the city’s court, or CUPE’s? The latest volley from the bargaining front took place Friday...
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LORINC: Expect Drummond’s report to muddle Ford’s transit plans
Every finance minister with even a dram of savvy knows that a critically-important part of the job description involves finding new and innovative ways of...
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LORINC: Ford, Miller and the crime file
Did anyone hear Mayor Rob Ford so much as grunt a word of thanks, on behalf of all Torontonians, to his predecessor for backing a slate of policies that...
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LORINC: Acceleration and Other Myths About Life in the Fast Lane
Listening to the first post-kumbaya consultation by Waterfront Toronto, at the Toronto Reference Library a week ago, I was struck (again) by the sense...
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LORINC: The spin cycle of City’s budget talks
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT: By the end of last Tuesday’s news cycle, Mayor Rob Ford had steered his gravy choo-choo train to a politically intriguing...
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LORINC: Handcuffs or straightjackets on the waterfront?
If Unbuilt Toronto chronicler Mark Osbaldeston gets around to penning a third installment of our city’s missed opportunities, Michael van Valkenburgh’s...
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LORINC: The Crimes and Misdemeanours of an Unbuilt Toronto
Scanning the fascinating images in Mark Osbaldeston’s second compilation about Toronto’s “alternate history,” — Unbuilt Toronto 2 — I found myself...
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LORINC: Ford’s mistake of historic proportions
Mayor Rob Ford’s plan to bury the 19-km Eglinton Crosstown LRT from end to end, instead of just through the crowded core of the city, will be rightly...
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LORINC: One year with Rob Ford (and a little more math)
Spooked by a middle-aged woman who looked like she just flounced off the set of an amateur Wagner production, Mayor Rob Ford seems to have neglected the...
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LORINC: How to fund a Toronto transformation
I didn’t agree with every position Jack Layton espoused, but I have never forgotten one of his signature political lessons – an approach he once described...