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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By John Lorinc

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • LORINC: All revved up, no place to go

    Okay, so now what? Much has been said about the folly of the McGuinty government’s decision to slash (delay?) $4 billion of funding to Transit City...

  • LORINC: Doing the Surplus Two-Step

    For those who are keeping score, 2010 isn’t the first time the city’s bean-counters delivered an unexpectedly large budget surplus, nor is it...