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By John Lorinc

  • LORINC: Going around and around on new waterfront plans

    With Rob Ford’s executive committee set to view brother Doug’s plan to transform the Port Lands into an up-market playground, I’d like to add a pair of...

  • Toronto Life screws Jane Jacobs?

    According to the September issue of Toronto Life, the city is – or ought to be – in the throes of an “exodus to the burbs” where, as the headline informs...

  • LORINC: The Consultation Follies or the Folly of Consultation?

    In the wake of Thursday’s consultapalooza, numerous pundits delighted in observing that all but three of the 169 deputants who toughed out the epic...

  • LORINC: Feedback

    Dear Mayor Ford, You invited Torontonians on Friday to let you know how they feel about the proposals arising from the Core Service Review. Here are some...

  • LORINC: Waiting for Plan B

    At the risk of inviting abuse on the comment string, I found myself wondering last week whether Jarvis Street is the hill on which the left wants to die...

  • LORINC: See no evil

    Here’s an awkward footnote to the latest gambit in Rob Ford’s campaign to undo everything his predecessor accomplished in office. Last week, the mayor’s...

  • LORINC: Maybe it doesn’t get better

    There’s an arresting scene near the end of Milk, the superb biopic about San Francisco supervisor and gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk, in which Sean Penn...

  • LORINC: The long and winding tunnel

    Mayor Rob Ford managed to suppress his allergy to media events on Friday by turning up to wax enthusiastic at the launch of Toronto’s four largest...

  • LORINC: The potential locked up in Pecaut Square

    Earlier this year, Mayor Rob Ford re-dedicated the interstitial space next to Metro Hall as David Pecaut Square — a classy tribute to a classy guy, whose...

  • LORINC: Should he stay or should he go?

    I can’t quite decide whether I’m appalled that Rob Ford blew off the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Halifax or relieved that we were...

  • LORINC: What R.C. Harris Says to Rob Ford’s Toronto

    One of the most famous stories about Roland Caldwell Harris, the longest-serving Toronto works commissioner, is that when he approved the design of the...

  • LORINC: Rob Ford’s Not-so-Excellent Week

    Did Mayor Rob Ford move the pigskin towards his end zone last week? An average – which is to say marginally informed – voter might say the answer is an...