Politics
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LORINC: All the evidence points to more stalling
And lo, after the people of the town had spent these six long years wandering blindly in a stormy and seemingly ceaseless night, a young messenger named...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Which track is Smart Track on?
One of the enduring features of Toronto’s so-called transit debate is the uneven and treacherous information terrain that ordinary citizens are forced to...
By John Lorinc -
MESLIN: While other cities embrace street murals, Toronto staff reject it
It’s been seven months since I wrote about the Regal Heights street mural, a community-driven art project painted by neighbours of all ages on...
By Dave Meslin -
LORINC: What if City Council actually talked about buses?
Bad choices beget more bad choices. If I lie on a government form, I will almost inevitably have to dissemble more in order to ensure the continued...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Fixing the federal vote
If the federal Liberals have endured anything even faintly resembling a controversy so far in these early halcyon days of their majority, it occurred over...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Revenue Tools — The Force Awakens?
Notwithstanding his conversion this week on the toll road to Damascus, Mayor John Tory’s looming financial problems were abundantly visible to anyone who...
By John Lorinc -
BURALE: Taking the ambiguity out of police carding
On October 28th, Community Safety Minister Yasir Naqvi released a draft regulation to standardize police street checks in order “to ensure that those...
By Idil Burale -
When terror strikes urban geographies of hope
Guest post by Paul Cohen, a professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and an occasional contributor to Spacing. I first learned...
By Paul Cohen -
How to consult in gentrifying neighbourhoods
Every municipal planner knows that when the City convenes a public meeting to consult a community about a proposed project, the people who tend to show up...
By Mariana Valverde -
LORINC: How to invest with Crosstown’s found money
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let’s just rewind a bit, past Wednesday’s Trudeau-palooza, to that interesting little moment last Tuesday when Ontario’s...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Spend Brampton LRT money on Queen’s Quay East
When Brampton council voted last week to kill a rapid transit line that would not have cost the city an, um, red cent, one thought sprang immediately to...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Trudeau and Canada’s next urban agenda
If I had to pinpoint a moment when this exhausting election made an important but subtle shift – the place where the ocean liner’s captain turns the...
By John Lorinc