John Lorinc
@JohnLorinc
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Journalist: Spacing, Globe & Mail, Corporate Knights. Editor: Coach House Books. Author Dream States (2022), No Jews Live Here (2024). @johnlorinc.bsky.social
Toronto
Joined October 2009
#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli My interview with @spaikin on @TheAgenda about No Jews Live Here. ( https://t.co/yTHajzdKQr).
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Excellent article by @JohnLorinc that asks the question; can Ford legally rip up the tripartite agreement that exists between two federal entities? A court should definitely decide. #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli
The politics of Island Airport during election year: Ford wants to expropriate the island airport during the mayoral election season — but does the province even have the legal right to take it over? #TOpoli @johnlorinc
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The politics of Island Airport during election year: Ford wants to expropriate the island airport during the mayoral election season — but does the province even have the legal right to take it over? #TOpoli @johnlorinc
https://t.co/kij6C0i4oV
spacing.ca
From where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an expansion plan than a political wedge, inserted directly — and in a highly...
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Urban planner Blair Scorgie argues that the Committee of Adjustment needs some serious adjusting. #TOpoli #ONpoli
https://t.co/ZH0ovFlSi0
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Blair Scorgie is a Toronto-based Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer. He is the Managing Principal of Scorgie Planning, and a Sessional Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University....
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I couldn’t be prouder of the boys on the U.S. Hockey team for their hard-fought Olympic victory. And I have to give credit where credit’s due: Well-played, Team Canada.
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This is profound. I am not surprised to see the U.S. at the top, or Canada at the bottom. Nor am i shocked to see my own country so high up on that list.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here:
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We never thought these words would appear in Spacing: In praise of the ugly waste bins in Toronto's parks. Read @JohnLorinc's column today. #TOpoli
https://t.co/gVLGETYD7a
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As Astral’s wretched street furniture deal limps towards its inevitable conclusion, Toronto’s litter bins are back in the news, although they’ve been living rent free in our urban consciousness for...
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Breaking: John Tory not seeking re-election as mayor of Toronto, according to sources
thestar.com
The former mayor of Toronto will not run in the fall’s municipal election.
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What's the old saying, "When the cat's away..."
Just landed in Halifax. Our message is clear: The decline of our country is the result of bad choices made by people in power. With your help, better choices and better outcomes are possible. Next up, Saskatchewan. RSVP: https://t.co/DlxJBMIAAP
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Bob and Doug redux...
Jack Hughes & Quinn Hughes on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon!
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#topoli #onpoli New from me in @TorontoStar: A contrarian take on the proposed Science Centre -- Toronto needs a major lakeside cultural venue, but the Ford govt sd also restore Raymond Moriyama's legacy building and turn it into a new community hub.
thestar.com
The Science Centre project represents something that has long been missing in almost three decades of waterfront revitalization: a signature cultural or social institution on the lake shore.
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Apparently travelling on official business is okay again...
Today, I am beginning meetings in London with British political and business leaders to deepen trade and security with Canada. The goals are to encourage more competition, drive consumer prices down and wages up, and generate more overseas sales, to make us stronger at home with
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Breaking: Former Toronto city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has died
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The former Toronto councillor was known for such unusual moves as ripping off his shirt in council chambers to protest a nude beach on Hanlan’s Point.
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#topoli #cdnpoli New from me in @TorontoStar: The Liberals w/ lose the fight over immigration to the cultural warriors if all they do is focus on cutting the numbers instead of rebuilding confidence in the institution of immigration in nation-building.
thestar.com
Focus on policy and data won’t solve this cultural problem
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#cdnpoli GrifterNation
On Feb. 10 we @nytimes broke the story that the owner of Ambassador Bridge, a Detroit trucking heir, had met with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick hours before President Trump took to social media to blast a new competing bridge #Thread #cdnpoli
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#cdnpoli This. Saying the (not-so) quiet thing outloud...
My latest, on l’affaire Jivani: The post-Poilievre leadership race has begun https://t.co/cgKVW90lyd
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Another Conservative MP crosses the floor to join the Liberal government.
I am honoured to welcome Matt Jeneroux to our caucus as the newest member of Canada’s new government. Building a stronger, more resilient, and more independent country will require ambition, collaboration, and occasionally, sacrifice. I am grateful to Matt and his family that
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The Shawinigan Handshake. Exclusive shot by Global News cameraman Phil Nolan in Ottawa. 30 years ago!
30 years ago today protestors got in the way of Prime Minister Jean Chretien - the "Shawinigan Handshake". 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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There are very few countries in the world where the Head of State, Head of Government, and Leader of the Opposition drop everything, come together, hold hands, and grieve like this. This is my Canada and the Canada I am proud to be raising a family in.
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#topoli #onpoli New from me in @spacing: Did the Project South arrests actually shake public confidence in the city's police service, as some pundits claimed, or was it kind of wobbly even before those revelations? https://t.co/dxTF8HLvUG
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Following last week’s revelations about “Project South” — a far-ranging probe into police corruption that netted indictments against seven Toronto cops, one retired officer and three other suspensi...
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