By John Lorinc
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LORINC: The Revenge of the Market Urbanists
Here’s a tale of two cities… In the City of Toronto (pop. 2.8 million), there are about 1.1 million private dwellings, and most of the growth...
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LORINC: Unanswered questions about John Tory and the Rogers Centre
Questions about Mayor John Tory’s relationship with Rogers Communications Inc. have dogged him since even before he was elected mayor, and they have once...
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LORINC: Council prepares to bring in inclusionary zoning, finally (updated).
Update: Council’s planning and housing committee approved an amended version of the inclusionary zoning staff report today (October 28), which...
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LORINC: What is the future of CafeTO (with update)?
On October 27, Toronto City Council’s executive committee will get to dine alfresco on the results of an online survey about the CafeTO program, and...
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LORINC: The Supreme Court ruling on the size of council was a distraction
I’d be lying if I said I was the least bit surprised by Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling, which dismissed by a 5-4 vote the City of Toronto’s...
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LORINC: 2021 vote was a tale of two elections
In the dying days of an election no one wanted, four themes dominated: the split on the left, the split on the right, the apparent re-awakening of Quebec...
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LORINC: The transit-less election
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand why transit didn’t crack the surface of this federal election. After 18 months of pandemic, the...
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LORINC: The case for re-branding urban shade for a world on fire
Given the increasingly dire news about climate change, including the release yesterday of the IPCC latest report on accelerating warming trends, one could...
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LORINC: City Council’s green-washing game
At its meeting earlier this month, Toronto city council endorsed two policies — one substantive, the other symbolic — to add further lustre to the City’s...
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LORINC: The failing of governance of Toronto
The debacle that was last week’s so-called debate over multi-tenant housing, which ended in a stalemate, was quite plainly evidence of a grievous failure...
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LORINC: Editing the moralism out of post-pandemic Toronto
We met friends for dinner on the weekend, on the patio of a little taco place along St. Clair West. Outside the patio, on the sidewalk, was a bench and on...
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LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns
I watched Greta Thunberg ream out world leaders at the Austrian World Summit, a climate conference, last week, and found myself pondering a key theme of...