By John Lorinc
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JOHN LORINC: Conservative yearnings
It couldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the city’s swinging right in this election year, and not without reason, given the increasingly...
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JOHN LORINC: Councillors’ ideas on how to fix TTC
Say this for Adam Giambrone’s long-shot run for mayor (which he launches tonight at Revival): As TTC chair, his very presence in the race all but...
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JOHN LORINC: You snooze, you lose
For the TTC, it’s been a perfect storm. In under a month, we’ve seen the fare hike, Richard Soberman’s post mortem, Rocco Rossi’s call for a Transit City...
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JOHN LORINC: Rossi cold to Transit City, bike lanes
In a lunchtime speech to the Empire Club at the Royal York today, mayoral hopeful Rocco Rossi laid out some of the key planks of his platform —...
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JOHN LORINC: Five white guys in suits
The all-male city council of Toronto, 1952 Except for Mel Lastman’s essentially uncontested re-election in 2000 (with all due respect to Tooker...
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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...