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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By John Lorinc

  • LORINC: Tuning in Tory

    Is John Tory in a conflict of interest with his daily drive-time radio show on CFRB? This past week, the question became impossible to ignore when he...

  • JOHN LORINC: A Little Circus, A Bit of Dough

    The phrase for Toronto should be “fourth time, lucky.” Thanks to some form of cosmic serendipity, we are indeed lucky to have bagged the 2015...

  • JOHN LORINC: Is beauty the ticket?

    The BeautifulCity.ca coalition has admirable, but possibly naà¯ve, expectations about the civilizing benefits of public art. The group wants the city to...

  • JOHN LORINC: A Graveyard for Small Businesses and other Urban Myths

    Business groups come in various flavours and their messages run the gamut from insightful to irritating. My least favourite is the Canadian Federation of...

  • JOHN LORINC: The Blunderbuss Strategy

    As this space serves as an excellent soapbox, I’d like to use my column to signal my intent — subject to various and sundry considerations...

  • JOHN LORINC: A Murray mayoralty?

    When Glen Murray asked me to be his Facebook friend last spring, I reckoned his overtures weren’t merely about putting down roots in Toronto’s...

  • JOHN LORINC: Waiting for the other shoe

    Power, as any poli-sci major will confirm, hates a vacuum, and the question at City Hall from now on is whether David Miller’s long (and hopefully...

  • JOHN LORINC: The New Deal for Cities, RIP

    If you tally up the list of prominent politicians at all levels who staked their careers on advancing the so-called cities agenda, only one’s still...

  • JOHN LORINC: knocking heads

    The Toronto Cyclists Union did itself no favours yesterday when they tried to persuade the members of council’s public works and infrastructure...

  • JOHN LORINC: Deafening Silence

    David Miller’s lawyerly silence about the broader implications of the Bryant-Sheppard tragedy is, to use one of the mayor’s favorite terms...

  • JOHN LORINC: Tunnel visions

    Here’s something for public space advocates to chew on: With their plan for a $38 million tunnel to the Toronto City Centre Airport, Robert Deluce...

  • JOHN LORINC: Piling on, Part II

    The tawdry conclusion to the Great Strike of 2009 brought to mind those brawls I recall from middle school. You remember the ones I mean, when the...