Politics
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MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 1
Bathurst and Davenport cross each other just below the steep shoreline of ancient Lake Iroquois. The intersection is lush with greenery and steeped in...
By Dave Meslin -
LORINC: How Wynne can repair Liberals public transit credibility
With premier Kathleen Wynne promising to move quickly to deliver a throne speech, re-introduce the budget that won her last week’s election and appoint a...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: What Ontario election means for Toronto’s mayoral race
Last night’s stunning win for Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne will almost certainly trigger not one but two leadership races — Tim Hudak will get the boot...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 5: The bottom line on the Scarborough subway
During tonight’s provincial election debate, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath will spend plenty of time accusing Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 4: Won’t somebody think of Bombardier?
According to the November, 2012, master agreement signed by Metrolinx, the City of Toronto and the TTC, the four-line LRT project included a hefty order...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 3: Ignoring the projected high costs and low ridership
When Toronto city council convened in July, 2013, to make a clear decision on the Scarborough subway conversion, City staff provided an estimate on the...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 2: “It’ll be over my dead body that Scarborough goes wanting for high speed transit”
On the surface, last summer’s council show-down over the Scarborough subway proposal was the culmination of a sustained political advocacy campaign by TTC...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION, PART 1: The political movements behind the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is part 1 of 5...
By John Lorinc -
SPACING INVESTIGATION: Timeline of the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Garbage in, garbage out
It’s easy to forget, after the landslide of (political) crud unleashed by the brothers Ford, that our chief magistrate’s checkered mayoral career traces...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: John Tory Q&A on how to pay for transit
With Mayor Rob Ford out of the race, at least for the time being, John Tory suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to hoover some of the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: In Ontario election what is the lesser of three evils?
By just about any standard of political analysis I can conjure up, the Ontario Liberal Party desperately needs a time-out. But the problem that be-devils...
By John Lorinc