All Entries Tagged With: "John Lorinc"
Lorinc: Greenwashing By Any Other Name
In his Spacing column, John Lorinc takes the Toronto Environmental Alliance to task for their report card – specifically their handling of candidates Joe Pantalone and George Smitherman:
And what about Smitherman? “George,” TEA sniffs, “likes to talk about the environment, but his enthusiasm doesn’t match his work to date” [emphasis added].
Excuse me? Is this the [...]
Lorinc: Furious George Takes The Subway
John Lorinc asks a number of questions in his review of mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s ‘Transit Delivered’ plan, which was revealed on Friday:
“The bulk of what Smitherman revealed on Friday (e.g., “Transit Trust,” the reliance on “triple-P” project management) had to do with bookkeeping, and thus doesn’t address basic questions: Where does he [...]
Lorinc: Smitherman Begins To Unveil George 2.0
John Lorinc is pretty sure mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s recent attacks on rival candidates is a well-worn tactic to distract from focusing attention on his own campaign:
“The gambit [of highlighting Ford's 2006 comments on AIDS funding] succeeded in shifting the recent media narrative about Ford’s chances, and I’m guessing this won’t be the last [...]
Lorinc: The Game Ford Will Never Win
“At Spacing, John Lornic examines Rob Ford’s pledge to reduce the membership of Council by half:
“The $10 million in savings is equivalent to a little more than one one thousandth of the gross budget, and could be wiped out by a slight spike in diesel fuel costs. Nor does Ford account for the [...]
Lorinc: Here Come The Transit Saviours?
In his weekly column, John Lorinc observes that transit funding is being discussed by more than just the usual crowd – conservatives like PC Leader Tim Hudak, Councillor Karen Stintz and radio host John Tory are offering support:
“Stintz, since bowing out of the mayor’s race, has been busily reinventing herself, presumably with an eye [...]
Lorinc: Interrupting This Announcement
Over at Spacing, John Lorinc suggests Mayor David Miller isn’t giving Joe Pantalone much room to maneuver in the Transit City debate:
“For some reason, however, the incumbent is refusing to give the sole pro-Transit City candidate the space to run with the ball. Instead, the funding fight is all about David Miller. It’s [...]
Lorinc: Subway Sarah’s Tunnel Vision
John Lorinc uses his weekly Spacing column to dissect the numbers on Sarah Thomson’s policy platform to expand the subway system:
“Point is, Thomson can spin her subway visions until she’s blue in the face, and the think tanks can keep cranking out those headline-grabbing gridlock/smog studies. But in the end, only [...]
Lorinc: Help Wanted
Spacing contributor John Lorinc takes a look at the candidacy of Joe Pantalone and surmises that he may need more than just a split on the right:
“Torontonians also seem to be in a fairly punitive frame of mind this year, but Pantalone doesn’t automatically emerge on the sunny side of that dynamic just [...]
Lorinc: The Other Election Campaign
Spacing’s John Lorinc opines that the real candidate George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi are running against this October is Mayor David Miller:
“No, he hasn’t registered, and no, he won’t be on the ballot. But Miller last week unambiguously inserted himself into the 2010 mayoral campaign (not to mention the work of the next [...]
Lorinc: Jarvis Bike Lanes An Election Wedge Issue?
In his weekly online column for Spacing Magazine, John Lorinc discusses the Jarvis Street bike lane issue and its place in the mayoral race – specifically the Rocco Rossi bid:
“Rossi is apparently trying to make Jarvis Street into the island airport of the 2010 campaign. He’s magnifying a local planning decision into a symbol of [...]
Lorinc: The Token Stops Here
John Lorinc thinks that Mayor David Miller should view TTC Chair Adam Giambrone more like a floundering cabinet minister and remove him from his current responsibilities:
“Miller — who’s been in Ottawa and wasn’t commenting on yesterday’s events — should make an appointment with the City Hall press corps before the end of the week and [...]
Lorinc: Conservative Yearnings
In this week’s installment of his weekly Spacing column, John Lorinc writes that he’s somewhat confused by all the calls for a candidate of the conservative ilk to jump into the mayoral ring:
“Exhibit A: Marcus Gee’s plea in Saturday’s Globe and Mail for Rob Ford to jump into this “lefty” campaign. As a journalist, I [...]
Lorinc: Five White Guys In Suits
In his regular weekly Spacing column, John Lorinc questions why there is no strong female representation in the current mayoral contest:
“Except for Mel Lastman’s essentially uncontested re-election in 2000 (with all due respect to Tooker Gomberg, RIP), it’s been almost a generation since Torontonians have witnessed a mayoral race that involved no competitive female candidates.
Which [...]
Lorinc: Will History Kill George Smitherman’s Mayoral Ambitions?
Spacing’s John Lorinc makes a bold prediction on how the race for mayor looks to play out over the next 9 months. Here’ s a hint – Rossi may be the one to watch:
“Toronto’s history offers no examples of back-to-back progressive mayors. Rather, we could well see the inverse of 1994, with Giambrone/Pantalone absorbing enough [...]
Lorinc: Deconstructing Giambrone’s Mayoral Bid
Writing over at Spacing, John Lorinc has crafted an interesting posting on why the mayoral candidacy of Councillor Adam Giambrone may be puzzling:
In the run-up to this week’s formal start of the municipal campaign, speculation about his mayoral aspirations has grown ever more insistent, with NOW Magazine last week going so far as to predict [...]
Spacing: Lorinc Talks Transit With Candidate Rossi
LeDrew, two?
In the week since Rocco Rossi joined the mayoral race as a potential spoiler, there’s been much speculation about whether he represents something more substantive than Stephen LeDrew, another former Liberal Party bagman who made a spectacle of himself in the 2006 race.
After Rossi’s kick-off, one right-of-centre councilor came away unpersuaded that he’s different [...]
