Politics
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Without an active mayor, city council needs to show discipline
For close to a year, city council has been the substitute for our crisis-a-day mayor. In its collective role as mayor, council has become acutely aware of...
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LORINC: What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns
In the wake of the Eaton Centre shooting, The Sun’s Joe Warmington declared predictably that Toronto is “a dangerous city.” The rebuttals – statistical...
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Former mayor Art Eggelton wants you to care
In late May, approximately 150 people crowded into The Duke of York Pub to listen to a mayor speak. And no, it was not Rob Ford. Senator Art Eggleton, who...
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Rob Ford speech absent of specifics and new ideas
When a provincial or federal government runs out of things it can or wants to do, it will often prorogue parliament before the end of a scheduled session...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
LORINC: Terrible Taxes and Other Ferry Tales
When Rob Ford revealed that he intends to move a motion to rename the Toronto island ferry docks in honour of Jack Layton, I’m guessing he wasn’t thinking...
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LORINC: The Infrastructure That Dare Not Speak its Name
Could there be a more telling detail about the Ford administration’s pathologically perverse position on transit than the revelation, in Friday’s Globe...
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Remove the bubble wrap from our public spaces
It’s been said to me that City Hall is run by engineers and lawyers. The engineers determine whether a given idea is technically feasible. The lawyers, on...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
LORINC: More travellin’ blues for Ford (Environics poll, pt. II)
While Christmas is a long way off, Mayor Rob Ford decided to dangle a shiny bauble in front the eyes of North York and Scarborough voters, pledging during...
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LORINC: Throwing the Dice in 2014
If one follows the logic of this week’s casino rhetoric to its logical conclusion, it seems probable that the ballot question in 2014 will be this: Should...
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LORINC: Is there an app to help Ford’s leadership skills?
Is there an app that would help Mayor Rob Ford figure out the transit file? Late Friday afternoon, the mayor’s office leaked the news that the city’s 2011...
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LORINC: The perils of funding the future of transit in the GTA
It often seems that Greater Toronto is forever poised at the cusp of an ah-ha moment when it comes to creating a more sustainable and sensible...
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SPACING-ENVIRONICS POLL: 74% of GTA support regional sales tax dedicated to transit
Greater Toronto residents would overwhelmingly support the concept of a Los Angeles-style regional sales tax dedicated to transit and infrastructure...
By John Lorinc