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By John Lorinc

  • 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...

  • JOHN LORINC: Getting to yes

    How did they get to yes? The City of Toronto’s daily press releases, which I am fortunate enough to receive, offer some telling clues. Two weeks...

  • JOHN LORINC: Miller’s demise greatly exaggerated

    Don’t you just love a pile-on? In a stirring display of bipartisanship, the gotcha right and the jilted left appear to agree that, a month into the...

  • JOHN LORINC: The strike and the politics of public health

    With the provincial Liberals unwilling to legislate back the municipal employees, and with David Miller promoting a  new offer while refusing to ask for...

  • JOHN LORINC: Throwing out the numbers

    Here’s a loaded question: Is the strike costing the City of Toronto money, or is it generating a financial windfall for the Corporation? City...

  • JOHN LORINC: Waiting for the penny to drop

    Well, so much for the National Transit Strategy. When  city council approved the additional $417 million for the streetcar purchase on Friday, it was...