By John Lorinc
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JOHN LORINC: And then there were three (four, five…?)
Will history kill George Smitherman’s mayoral ambitions? Setting aside the issue of his temperament, Smitherman — who officially registered last...
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JOHN LORINC: Deconstructing Giambrone’s mayoral bid
Is there anyone in the audience who understands what Adam Giambrone is thinking? In the run-up to this week’s formal start of the municipal campaign...
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JOHN LORINC: Rocco Rossi on public transit
LeDrew, two? In the week since Rocco Rossi joined the mayoral race as a potential spoiler, there’s been much speculation about whether he represents...
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JOHN LORINC: Liberals at the gates of City Hall
No matter how large the field grows, the 2010 mayoral race will ultimately devolve to a single ur-narrative: can an outsider do a better job than the...
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JOHN LORINC: It’s more than an architecture fetish
Dear Marcus Gee, In last Thursday’s Globe and Mail, you dismissed as a “fetish” efforts to protect two noteworthy features of...
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JOHN LORINC: Face Off!
The girls hockey imbroglio, which could turn into a bench-clearing brawl at council this week, is one of those curious political sideshows — the...
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JOHN LORINC: Paul Goldberger on why architecture matters
In an era pre-occupied by “starchitecture” and the dominance of global cities, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger makes a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...