John Lorinc

#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli My interview with @spaikin on @TheAgenda about No Jews Live Here. (chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jew…). youtube.com/watch?v=H5DtPl…

#topoli #cdnpoli Our shoebox condo market is finally crumbling. Mark Carney should be the least surprised of all of us. But saving a speculation-fueled industry is the last thing he needs to do right now. thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

#topoli New from me in @torontostar: How to make a schlep to Downsview Park appealing? A good first impression would help, but all those supposedly nearby transit stations don't really help with accessibility. thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion

CAJ: “Targeting a journalist for simply doing their job is a cowardly act that endangers not only the reporter, but also the vital public interest work that journalism represents. Carrie Tait should be saluted for her work — not spoofed or surveilled.” caj.ca/statement-on-t…

Journalism is a precarious, poorly paid profession but you learn every day and that can include how lucky you are. Yesterday I covered Mayor Chow's visit to 500 Dawes Rd., an apartment building notorious for pests, mould and various malfunctions. Chow met 3 tenants ...

#topoli Re-posting @spacing's `What me worry' column from two weeks ago. Turns out @MayorOliviaChow had plenty of reasons (30 million, in fact) to worry... spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Happening this Sunday! This year marks the 191st commemoration of Emancipation Day. Learn more about the history of this Black tradition at my upcoming talk.

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and…

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Nine essential walking routes that reveal Toronto’s nature, history and soul - via @TorontoStar #walkTO thestar.com/interactives/t…

📹🧵 @dmrider & I were among the first (authorized) to float along the restored route where the Don River historically emptied into the harbour. Now the public can too w the opening of its massive greenspace: Biidaasige Park youtube.com/shorts/n2HgxSC… Video edits by @lancemcmillan

SPECULATIVE FRICTION Real estate speculation has supercharged Toronto’s housing crisis. Is there anything city council can do to protect renters from the goals of investors? The latest from our June Issue from @JohnLorinc westendphoenix.com/stories/specul…

#topoli ICYMI today on @spacing -- LORINC: Rip off the bandage rapidly, please! Why the City needs a radically new approach to rolling out complex policies like the RapidTO bus priority plan, which is being nibbled to death. spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

Heaven forbid that we would allow the construction of family sized apartments: Toronto caps number of bedrooms allowed in multiplex buildings /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar… #TOpoli

#topoli My @globeandmail colleague @shanedingman unpacks @shelleycarroll's claim at council that she was fighting a multiplex w/ 30 bedrooms. Now she's not talking re that project because it's more complicated than she made it out to be. theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…

With the city's RapidTO bus lane plan on life-support, the city and council need to find a better way to get complex policies out the door, writes @JohnLorinc spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

"How could it be done to you and your ancestors, and you turn around and do it to someone else?" American Jewish actor and singer Mandy Patinkin passionately condemns Israel's leadership, calling PM Netanyahu dangerous for Jews globally and denounces Israel’s war on Gaza.

Pure dopamine.

What goes around...