John Lorinc
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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2 days ago |
theglobeandmail.com | John Lorinc
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1 week 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks 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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#topoli #BlackHistory: Today on @spacing -- @NHenryDixon on how she researched & wrote seven entries of enslaved Black residents of Upper Canada, a first, for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Cc: @YorkUniversity https://t.co/0KLlrRV53Q
#topoli #cndpoli New from me in @torontostar: Will Mark Carney respect facts and evidence in his policy-making? Depends how he approaches funding science and data https://t.co/9sYUpb0Ylf via @torontostar
Creating a crisis > capitulating > then claiming to have solved the crisis.
Top US officials emerge from China trade talks touting 'substantial progress' and a 'deal' https://t.co/Fj1pihr1bS
