By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Ford must learn math before Rae can pay
Wouldn’t it be great if the self-styled cost-cutters running to become mayor knew their math? First we had George Smitherman miscalculating the cost of...
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LORINC: How will new mayor bargain with the TTC?
With the mayoral race spreading to the airwaves, most of the candidates (Joe Pantalone being the perennial exception) are doing their best to promote the...
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LORINC: Furious George takes the subway
George Smitherman’s $17.4 billion transportation platform reads like the work of a old parliamentary hand who knows a thing or two about the dark art of...
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LORINC: Is Eglinton a tunnel to nowhere?
I’ve been trying to comprehend what Mayor David Miller means when he predicts the Liberals’ funding delay means the $4.6 billion Eglinton LRT may only...
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LORINC: No space for public space in this election?
Is it possible that the closest we’ll come to a public space debate during this morbidly fascinating election is a slag-fest over bike lanes real and...
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LORINC: Smitherman begins to unveil George 2.0
Pop quiz: What did we learn about the new-and-improved George Smitherman this week? Here’s one answer: If you don’t have a platform, much less an...
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LORINC: Rossi gets tunnel vision too
Another day, another subway platform. Adding his voice to the chorus of calls for subway expansion, mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi yesterday unveiled his...
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LORINC: The game Ford will never win
Thanks to David Miller’s dogged pursuit of a City of Toronto Act, Rob Ford can spend the next five months vowing to radically slim down council, from 44...
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LORINC: Here come the transit saviours?
Look, over yonder: it’s a band of conservatives, in their blue hats, galloping across the horizon to save… Transit City? What’s with that? In a Friday...
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LORINC: Interrupting This Announcement
When news broke last week of David Miller’s unprecedented move to take his Transit City funding fight to the TTC’s tinny public address...
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JOHN LORINC: Subway Sarah’s Tunnel Vision
Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson wants me to write about her campaign, so here goes: Let’s start with a fact check of her plan to...
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LORINC: Help wanted
At last week’s Spacing launch, one left-leaning councilor laid out the bare bones of Joe Pantalone’s campaign strategy: the veteran, this...