Waterfront
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LORINC: Clear-cutting the rules at Ontario Place
What with all the giant numbers that got tossed around with the unveiling on Monday of the Ontario-Toronto new deal — $7 billion! $9 billion! $1.2 billion...
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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...
By John Lorinc -
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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How to build a waterfront transit line
UPDATE NOV. 10, 2023: After years of study, city council voted 18-2 to adopt the new Waterfront East LRT alignment, a three-phase project that will...
By John Lorinc -
CNE’s grand plans of the past: Visionary days for people places in Toronto and Ontario
EDITOR: Landscape architect and urban designer Walter Kehm worked on the CNE master plans in the late 1960s and recently found these images that included...
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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...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 073, Love Park and Love Letters
We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto’s waterfront, to talk about good public space design...
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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...
By John Lorinc -
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...
By Ian Darragh