Politics
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One more housing bill and no new homes
How many bills does it take to build the homes Ontario says it needs? The recently re-elected Doug Ford government would have you believe it takes...
By Michel Nayrouz -
Reversing the Ford government’s biking backlash
At a time when Washington has launched a scorched earth attack on virtually all federal climate policies, the Ford government’s hyper-partisan...
By John Lorinc -
A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to...
By John Lorinc -
Judge puts Ford back in his lane
Ontario superior court justice Paul Schabas this week granted an interim (“interlocutory”) injunction preventing Queen’s Park from...
By John Lorinc -
Cities are missing topic in the 2025 federal election campaign (UPDATE)
There’s nothing even the least bit surprising about the fact that cities, or urban affairs more generally, have had so little play in the federal...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto in the 2025 Ontario election
Since the last Ontario provincial election in 2022, Toronto has been powerfully affected by the actions of Premier Doug Ford’s Conservative provincial...
By Dylan Reid -
The housing sub-plot in the federal election
Though it seems like an eternity ago, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives circa 2023-24 desperately wanted this election to be about the ruinous cost...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: The coming American brain drain will be Canada’s gain
In the face of the relentless ratcheting up of the Trump administration’s economic assault on Canada, we’ve seen basically three types of...
By John Lorinc -
Non-profit housing is an economic no-brainer
Canada is acting quickly to reposition our trade economy to become more resilient, diverse and self-reliant. We need a similar re-calibration of Canada’s...
By cherise burda -
LORINC: Don’t alienate civic volunteers
In case you missed it, the Toronto Star‘s Ben Spurr on the weekend published a deep dive into the brawl that took place at Moss Park Arena — not on...
By John Lorinc -
BOWERMAN: Doug Ford suddenly cares about local democracy?
In case you missed it: democracy is being usurped! At least, that’s what some of the loudest right-wing voices in Toronto are warning us. And...
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OP-ED: A deadly decision
In a disappointing but unsurprising turn, the Ontario Superior Court denied an injunction to stop the Ford government from ripping out Toronto’s bike...
By Lanrick Bennett