Politics
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BREAKING: Grassroots group seeks injunction to stop the Ontario Place mega-spa
Ontario Place for All, the 30,000-member grass roots group fighting the West Island mega-spa, this morning launched a lawsuit against the Doug Ford...
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I visited public toilet paradise and it was heaven – why can’t Canada do this?
I found public pee paradises and their names are Hong Kong and Japan. Public washrooms, or lack of by policy choice, in Canada has been my pet thing for a...
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OP-ED: Reining in Uber
In October, City Council temporarily paused issuing ride-hailing licenses for Lyft and Uber at 52,000, or ten times the pre-Uber average of taxi licenses...
By Thorben Wieditz -
Ford’s plan for a Mega-Garage update
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a follow-up on yesterday’s article by John Lorinc about the P3 plans to build a underground parking lot on the Ontario...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Ford’s plan for a Mega-Garage at the new Science Centre
The Ford government wants to bundle the proposed five-storey parking garage and the relocated Science Centre in a single public-private partnership deal...
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LORINC: The Auditor General needs to investigate Ontario Place, now
Given this week’s stunning news — that the RCMP has launched a criminal investigation of the Greenbelt land deals and that Ontario’s...
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LORINC: Therme’s likely carbon nightmare at Ontario Place
The environmental critiques of Therme Canada’s mega-spa scheme have rightly focused on the project’s most visible and violent impacts: the...
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The below-grade scandal of the Ontario Place redevelopment
Over the past year or so, the debate over the future of Ontario Place — and particularly the West Island — has focused, mainly, on what will happen above...
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OP-ED: Auditor general must investigate what’s going on at Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Centre
Like the flawed process to remove Class 1 agricultural land and wetlands from the Greenbelt, the Ford government’s plan for Ontario Place is also flawed...
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LORINC: The Tories’ use-it-or-lose housing ruse
On the north-east corner of Bathurst and St. Clair West sits a snazzy purpose-built condo sales office, ostensibly there to promote Foret, a giant...
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LORINC: The housing planets align
The housing file, as everyone knows, is burning hotter than the forests in western Canada, but might this issue be having a moment? I’m struck by a...
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Olivia Chow’s revenue tools plan is the sound of one hand clapping
There’s plenty to applaud about the proposed revenue measures that will go before an emergency session of Mayor Olivia Chow’s executive...
By John Lorinc