
John Lorinc
Senior Editor at Spacing Magazine
Journalist/Editor at Freelance
Journalist, covering cities & climate. Spacing, Globe & Mail, Corporate Knights. Editor: Coach House Books. Author Dream States (2022), No Jews Live Here (2024)
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1 week ago |
spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Peter MacCallum
There’s nothing even the least bit surprising about the fact that cities, or urban affairs more generally, have had so little play in the federal election. Yes, all three major parties talk about housing and housing affordability. Both the Conservative and the Liberals have unveiled crime agendas.
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theglobeandmail.com | John Lorinc
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theglobeandmail.com | John Lorinc
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3 weeks ago |
spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Peter MacCallum |Ian Darragh
Though it seems like an eternity ago, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives circa 2023 and 2024 desperately wanted this election to be about the ruinous cost of housing (and Justin Trudeau, of course). Poilievre starred in numerous extended and compelling effective videos — e.g., “Housing hell: how we got there and how we get out”‘ — dramatizing the myriad ways in which the housing approvals system had gone off the rails.
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spacing.ca | John Lorinc |Glyn Bowerman |Albert Koehl
In the face of the relentless ratcheting up of the Trump administration’s economic assault on Canada, we’ve seen basically three types of government responses: almost immediate and very specific retaliatory tariffs, long-term and somewhat diffuse pledges to bolster Canada’s internal economy (i.e., maybe an east-west pipeline, ending inter-provincial trade barriers) and localized gestures that feel more demonstrative than substantial.
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#cdnpoli I maintain that if a pollster asked Canadians if they'd been to a political rally in the past decade, the affirmative responses would be in the low single digits.

When you're making a whole thing about your rally crowd size, you better hope when someone decides to count that the numbers stack up. The CBC did and boy oh boy neither party comes out looking great here -> https://t.co/cyT05B7zZe

RT @l_stone: The set-up at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s press conference in Milton about housing - he’s proposing to save 100k o…

RT @RobertFife: Another brewing controversy inside the Conservative Party. Incidentally campaign manager Jenni Bryne reportedly told Nation…