Politics
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In face of Covid-19, what if Canada’s health system looked like our housing system?
Covid-19 is making everyday life feel like dystopian fiction. But imagine an even more apocalyptic scenario: what if Canada’s health system looked like...
By Emily Paradis -
LORINC: We are about to learn what civic resilience truly is in face of Covid-19 pandemic
In this space last week, I argued that Torontonians, and their elected officials, need to have a far more serious debate about what resiliency actually...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Understanding what resilience means in era of COVID-19
“Resilience” in recent years has emerged as the sexiest new addition to the lexicon of urbanist jargon — a word that denotes a kind of core strength, what...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Waterfront Toronto continues its Kafka-esque Quayside saga, but why?
Thorben Wieditz is an urban geographer who works at the intersection of labour, community and big tech. He helped establish regulatory frameworks for...
By Thorben Wieditz -
LORINC: Downsview offers city-building opportunity with a long runway
The key take-away in the Metrolinx business case report released last week, on the economics of the Scarborough subway, is as simple as can be: the vast...
By John Lorinc -
Questions for City Charter supporters: What and whom is it for?
Note: At the end of November, I was part of a panel hosted by the Institute for Municipal Finance and Governance on “Does Toronto Need a City Charter?...
By Tricia Wood -
MUKHERJEE: Why Toronto police are worse off under Chief Mark Saunders
In Act I, Scene IV of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marcellus, a guard, renders this famous verdict on his country’s politics: “Something is rotten in the kingdom...
By Alok Mukherjee -
LORINC: Just who is the face of the TTC these days?
With apologies to the famously elusive picture book figure, where’s Rick? Increasingly, as the TTC finds itself in a public relations nightmare, I have...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Council ponders $600 million affordable housing incentive
It is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy, political will and pixie...
By John Lorinc -
When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning Council
Editor’s note: Excerpted from the book When Poverty Mattered, Then and Now, by Paul Weinberg (Fernwood Publishing, 2019). There is something both...
By Paul Weinberg -
The delicate dance of governing Sidewalk Lab’s Quayside project
Three-and-a-half months after The Great Re-Set trimmed the sails of everyone’s favorite smart city villain, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff and Waterfront...
By John Lorinc -
In defense of Toronto becoming a charter city
This column is in response to Professor Zack Taylor’s analysis of Toronto becoming a Charter City on Spacing In an opinion column here on Spacing...
By Doug Earl