Politics
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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 -
LORINC: Why this Canadian election is like no other
As Stephen Harper’s Conservatives inflict their limbic system politics on voters who are somehow unable to see themselves as pawns in the hands of a gang...
By John Lorinc