By John Lorinc
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LORINC: What’s missing from the missing middle debate
City council has spent the past few years chipping away at the walls surrounding that seemingly impregnable fortress otherwise known as Toronto’s...
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ELECTION: If not housing now, when?
This column has been updated since it was originally published. A debate will be held on Oct. 17th. Is Housing Now dead? In case you missed seasons 1 to...
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LORINC: Clear-cutting Michael Hough’s landscaping at Ontario Place
Toronto, arguably, is in the midst of what the city may look back on as a golden age of landscape architecture and design. In the past 15 years...
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LORINC: Who will solve the rental crisis? Not John Tory
For decades, about half of Torontonians have lived in rented dwellings, and despite this rather amazing statistic, they are systematically un- or at best...
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LORINC: The slow boats to Centre Island
After the dock collision on the weekend that injured more than a dozen people and has reduced ferry service to the Toronto Islands for the rest of the...
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LORINC: The future of Ontario Place must become an election issue
The only thing worse than the design proposed for Ontario Place’s indoor spa mega-project is the fact that a firm with such a storied history in...
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LORINC: Does Toronto need strong mayor powers or just a strong mayor?
Over the 16 years prior to the news last week that Premier Doug Ford’s Tories are planning to impose so-called strong mayor powers on Toronto...
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LORINC: This fall’s election shouldn’t be a victory lap
Mayor John Tory was out and about late last week, talking up what was billed as a plan to revive the city’s economy but which looked mostly like a...
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WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3
Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123 community recreation...
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Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2
Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go, and knowing what to...
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Why We Can’t Go: A Report on Toronto’s Public Washrooms, pt. 1
Because this is Toronto, and because it’s important for officialdom to do certain things backwards, we’re going to spend this week — the days...
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LORINC: Highway 413 and Doug Ford’s tactical whataboutism
Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop planned and now known...