Politics
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JOHN LORINC: The other election campaign
On the morning of the now-infamous $100 million press conference, a Metro Morning producer called me at 6:30 am and asked if I wanted to speculate on air...
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He’s done this before, you know
A photo I took when we went through this ritual in mid-2008. Context! June 13, 2008. A Friday. I was covering City Hall for Eye Weekly at the time. At...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
Ontario auto insurance changes hit pedestrians, cyclists
Anyone who doesn’t own a car, and the insurance that goes with it, is going to have fewer resources to deal with injuries if they are hit by a car...
By Dylan Reid -
Lorinc vs. Munro: TTC 2.0 or TTC RIP?
At a packed Board of Trade speech last week, Rocco Rossi vowed that as mayor, he would “put everything on the table” in negotiations with the...
By Spacing -
Could Toronto lease out the Gardiner and DVP?
There was an interesting article in the Star recently (with a misleading headline) about how Chicago’s chief financial officer arranged leases on...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING RADIO: City budgets, ferry rides and Olympic legacies
Spacing Radio 017 is on the air. It’s budget-time in Toronto and while City Hall is busy at work approving the final numbers, host David Michael...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: Parsing Caplan’s TTC essential service bill
From what I can glean, there are three competing explanations for what former Liberal health minister David Caplan was up to last week when he introduced...
By John Lorinc -
JOHN LORINC: Jarvis bike lanes an election wedge issue?
Yet another press release from the Rocco Rossi camp appeared in my inbox late Friday afternoon, declaring – or more accurately, re-declaring –...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto Environmental Alliance issues election priorities
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has published a list of key policy priorities it hopes Toronto’s mayoral candidates will endorse. Noting...
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JOHN LORINC: The token stops here
If Mayor David Miller was a premier or prime minister contending with a cabinet minister in political freefall, he’d have only one option: fire the...
By John Lorinc -
STEVE MUNRO: Giambrone should step down from TTC
At 11am today, Adam Giambrone held a press conference at which he profusely apologised to his supporters, to his personal partner, and to his fellow...
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Adam Giambrone drops out of mayor’s race
Adam Giambrone is abandoning his campaign for mayor. His assistant, Kevin Beaulieu, informed the media of this decision after Giambrone suprised the...
By Todd Harrison