Politics
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LORINC: Fantasy football with Rob Ford
(Warning: This column contains explicit football puns.) With the mid-way point of Rob Ford’s term fast approaching, I have one fundamental question about...
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LORINC: Q&A with TTC Chair Karen Stintz on transit funding plans
Here’s a short-term goal: With a little self-discipline, and a bit of focus on the part of the media, maybe we can get back to talking about the things...
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LORINC: Cue the lawyers of #FordCourt
Mayor Rob Ford left the court by mid-day yesterday, but the ghosts of his two predecessors – Mel Lastman and David Miller – made their presence felt as...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Strange times in #FordCourt
When you peel away all the political spinning, the legal wrangling and the sheer spectacle of what transpired in Courtroom 6-1 at 361 University Avenue...
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LORINC: Forgetful Ford gets his day in court
When the lawyers, the press, and the idly curious take their places in a University Avenue courtroom this morning, all eyes will be on the unprecedented...
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LORINC: Conflicting accounts of Ford’s declarations of conflict
In Monday’s Globe and Mail, my colleague Kelly Grant reported that Mayor Rob Ford, during a deposition involving the pending conflict of interest...
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NO MEAN CITY: Nathan Phillips Square, City Hall and what’s worth it
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The renovation of Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto’s most important public...
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LORINC: What should be on the new chief planner’s to-do list
Progressive Toronto was feeling pretty darn good about its collective self last week when the City revealed it would be hiring the poised planning...
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Headspace: Susan McIsaac, CEO of the United Way, discusses priority neighbourhoods
Susan McIsaac is CEO of the United Way of Toronto. Since 1956, The United Way has been working to provide services to the poor and needy in our city...
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Meet Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s new chief planner
In the lead-up to the previous municipal election, Spacing identified the most pressing urban issues facing the city. In our urban planning feature we...
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LORINC: Is there a chance for OneCity 2.0?
Are we in the midst of a golden age of transit construction in Toronto? I pose the question in complete seriousness to all the grim-faced fans of...
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LORINC: Shelley Carroll’s case for patience on transit plan
Is Shelley Carroll merely pouting about not getting her fair share of the OneCity limelight, or does she have a legitimate critique of the much-lauded...
By John Lorinc