Politics

LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment

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At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application for the Ontario... Read More

LORINC: Toronto’s development charge showdown is a distraction

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As the battle over Bill-23 — a.k.a. the “More Housing Bigger Profits Act” — rumbled towards its inevitable conclusion... Read More

LORINC: What the Unfair Mayor System could look like in practice

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Late last week, after the Ontario government revealed that it was bulking up mayoral veto powers for the cities of Toronto and Ottawa... Read More

Will Bill 23 kill heritage protections?

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The Ontario government has proposed new legislation called the More Homes, Built Faster Act (Bill 23). But I’d prefer an act called... Read More

LORINC: Paul Bedford on what happens next with the Ontario Place redevelopment

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In the days immediately following the municipal election, the second round of public consultations on the revitalization, so-called... Read More

LORINC: Will Toronto defend its rental replacement law from Doug Ford?

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In the late 1990s, then St. Paul’s West councillor Joe Mihevc took up the cause of several hundred tenants, many of them... Read More

REID: The Jenga school of civic management

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For some years, I worked for an organization that practiced what I came to think of as the Jenga school of management. The... Read More

LORINC: Who is behind the Therme Group, the spa company redeveloping Ontario Place?

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When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly... Read More

ELECTION: Beware of what you wished for

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The outcome, at least on the mayoral vote, was not ambiguous: Mayor John Tory, campaigning — if that’s how his performance in... Read More