By John Lorinc
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JOHN LORINC: The other election campaign
On the morning of the now-infamous $100 million press conference, a Metro Morning producer called me at 6:30 am and asked if I wanted to speculate on air...
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LORINC: Parsing Caplan’s TTC essential service bill
From what I can glean, there are three competing explanations for what former Liberal health minister David Caplan was up to last week when he introduced...