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John Lorinc

Toronto

Senior Editor at Spacing Magazine

Journalist/Editor at Freelance

Journalist: Spacing, Globe & Mail, Corporate Knights. Editor: Coach House Books. Author Dream States (2022), No Jews Live Here (2024). @johnlorinc.bsky.social

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  • 3 weeks ago | theglobeandmail.com | John Lorinc

  • 1 month ago | spacing.ca | John Lorinc

    Giant hairy-chested capital projects have an uncanny ability to commandeer public attention — the latest choice example, of course, is the Big Doug, about which there has and will be much commentary (including from yours truly). Necessary, on one hand, because this insane scheme deserves as much light as possible to dissuade decision-makers. Yet all the tunnel chatter takes away from the equally critical debate about alternatives that might reduce the horrendous congestion along Highway 401.

  • 1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | John Lorinc

    Open this photo in gallery:JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian PressPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountDrowned out by the din from Donald Trump’s tariff war is a second front in the president’s obsession with eliminating his country’s trade deficit: the U.S. dollar. Some of the administration’s advisers want to devalue the greenback to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. Others want to reduce the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency.

  • 1 month ago | spacing.ca | John Lorinc

    At a time when Washington has launched a scorched earth attack on virtually all federal climate policies, the Ford government’s hyper-partisan campaign to tear out Toronto bike lanes feels, well, positively Trumpian. Turns out we’re not entirely alone in the Jurassic Park club.

  • 1 month ago | spacing.ca | John Lorinc

    There was a burst of side-taking last week after the ever-green topic of improving access to Toronto’s pre-eminent public space bobbed, again, to the political surface. The question: how to improve active transportation access to Toronto Island, including possibilities for a fixed link across the Eastern Gap?

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12 Jun 25

RT @stevefleck: Thank you @JohnLorinc for this. Within the cycling community those videos of the Brazilian Bus Drivers, on the Stationary B…

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RT @tomfriedman: My column: This Israeli Government Is a Danger to Jews Everywhere https://t.co/vVtu1hQ0a6

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11 Jun 25

RT @NHenryDixon: My next public talk is part of the Robarts virtual Summer Institute @RobartsCentre . I'll be presenting, "Reinterpreting P…