By John Lorinc
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JOHN LORINC: On streetcars, strikes and the question of control
For all the spin and counter-spin hovering around the David Miller-John Baird feud over the streetcar “ask,†most observers have neglected to account...
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The politics of extending the municipal franchise
In The Globe and Mail’s online debate/column Friday about voting rights for immigrants, Marcus Gee denounced David Miller’s bid to extend the...
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John Lorinc examines Jan Gehl’s one stone-five birds strategy
With a winking apology to the ornithology set, the renowned Danish architect Jan Gehl last week laid out his “one stone-five birds†strategy for a...
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Collecting flack
The TTC doesn’t need to do drug testing on its drivers. For my money, I’d much prefer the Commission spend some time and capital on customer...