Politics
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LORINC: Bombardier’s bribery problems in Europe hurt Toronto
To all the tornado chasers who spot the twisters whipping destructively across Toronto’s forlorn transit geography, add this storm system to your list of...
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LORINC: The Scarborough subway extension’s escape hatches
When I look at the latest staff report outlining, ahem, progress on the Scarborough subway extension (SSE), I see a document absolutely packed with...
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LORINC: What the 2016 Canadian census tells us
For those of you who aren’t transfixed by the sight of our youthful prime minister walking the plank today in Washington, here are some thoughts about...
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LORINC: Wynne’s U-turn on road tolls dangerous for Tory
Since the news of the Liberals’ reversal on road tolls for the Gardiner and the Don Valley Parkway began to leak last Thursday evening, Premier Kathleen...
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LORINC: Cities need to heed signals from Trudeau government
The little explosion of sweaty news last week about an apparently buried federal report predicting “decades” of gigantic deficits added just a bit more...
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LORINC: A watchdog for all those $2 road tolls
During the (only half-finished) debate over John Tory’s road tolls scheme, the mayor offered up what looked mostly like a nerve-soothing rider for the...
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LORINC: Why doesn’t Ontario’s NDP get road pricing?
How long do progressives and urban dwellers more generally have to wait before Ontario’s NDP stops compensating (atoning?) for former premier Bob Rae’s...
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LORINC: John Tory’s road toll epiphany
There’s no question that Mayor John Tory deserves credit for hitching his political wagon to road tolls — on the Gardiner and the Don Valley Parkway — at...
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LORINC: Trump, Trudeau and the Liberals’ economic agenda
The surrealist performance art show that is the Trump transition process has provided the world with a torrent of distraction that would un-moor even...
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A warning to the Electors of Toronto (or Trump voters)
There has been a lot of critical (and not so critical) thinking and writing in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as the US president (I’m...
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LORINC: Can City Council avoid the white elephant in the room?
While Toronto’s politicians have yet to turn their collective attention to the question of whether the city needs new revenue tools to address growing...
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LORINC: Tip of the City’s financial iceberg
Those grinding and rattling sounds you’ve been hearing in recent weeks could have come from a pre-Halloween party, but the source of the clamour has been...
By John Lorinc