John Lorinc

LORINC: When the police neither serve or protect - Spacing Toronto Following last week’s revelations about “Project South” — a far-ranging probe into police corruption that netted indictments against seven Toronto cops, one retired officer and three other suspensions...

Why has Queen's Park tried to remedy Toronto's police problem by ordering a probe of every police service in Ontario? asks @johnlorinc.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Swath…

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#cdnpol It’s like living next door to the asshole who used to mug kids for their lunch money in middle school…

“Doctor”

Oz Offers Forceful Call for Vaccination as Measles Becomes More Dire

Insane. The Republicans need to pick a lane and stay in it rather than promoting a fiction, making it public policy & then reversing course the moment their false narrative is revealed to be…false (and lethally so). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

In our current issue intro @dylanreid.bsky.social hoped the Crosstown LRT line would open while the issue was still on the shelves - and it did, today! A "soft launch" but it's carrying passengers.

#topoli Line 5: that new rapid transit scent…

LORINC: The post-snowstorm sidewalk obstacle course - Spacing Toronto Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes. Transportation services, the sprawling department tasked with planning, maintaini...

I've noticed this too. Important point by @johnlorinc.bsky.social that City of Toronto transportation doesn't seem to coordinated with Parks or with the school boards when it comes to sidewalk plowing. Often see school sidewalks unplowed, and sidewalks beside parks. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT opens after 15 years of construction Many transit fans braved the cold to be among the first to ride Line 5, which was originally set to open in 2020.

#topoli Transit Nerd Nation: Line ups in arctic-grade cold to ride a new transit line is about as committed as it gets… www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Echo…? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

We ❤️ library readers of indie books. Thanks for borrowing What I Know About You, Encampment (@maggiehelwig.bsky.social), The Sleeping Car Porter, Fifteen Dogs, and Messy Cities ( @dylanreid.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social).

Raiding the Bathhouses Originally published on Torontoist on June 26, 2011. “On the rampage: Demonstrators taunted police in a late-night march Friday comparing the raid of four Toronto steam baths to the persecuti…

From the vaults: a look at the Toronto bathhouse raids, which took place 45 years ago today. #TOHistory

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Jimmy Cliff and the roots of Toronto's reggae scene, Part 1 - Spacing Toronto On November 24, 2025, Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff (né James Chambers) died at age 81. Twenty years prior, Cliff became only the fourth reggae artist to receive the Order of Merit (2003) – the h...

Part 1 in a 2-part series by Cheryl Thompson on reggae legend Jimmy Cliff's connection to Toronto. #TOpoli #BlackHistoryMonth

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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children

Utterly appalling: A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

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#topoli More than a week after the storm, this is the sidewalk next to a primary school…

It's a good piece, @johnlorinc.bsky.social. However the lack of bike lane clearing needs to be called out as well. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli

LORINC: The post-snowstorm sidewalk obstacle course - Spacing Toronto Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes. Transportation services, the sprawling department tasked with planning, maintaini...

"sidewalks are the second-class citizens of [Toronto's] transportation infrastructure" spacing.ca/toronto/2026... via @johnlorinc.bsky.social

LORINC: The post-snowstorm sidewalk obstacle course - Spacing Toronto Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes. Transportation services, the sprawling department tasked with planning, maintaini...

The post-snowstorm sidewalk obstacle course — the City made good on its promise to improve snow clearing on streets in the aftermath of a big snowfall — sidewalks, not so much, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social. #TOpoli

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Why the Trillium should find new life on the waterfront - Spacing Toronto By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years before the Titanic, the city’s famous side-wheeler ferry is the last of its kind...

Good suggestion, but I don’t think it needs to be moored in the water. I actually think it would be better protected on a dry dock—like London’s Cuddy Shark. Positioning it at eye level with visitors could make it an even more engaging and memorable attraction. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

#topoli Wychwood Barns community-made rink, all frozen and cleared and ready to go. ⛸️🥅🏒🇨🇦

What a great combination!

One and the same. And *every single year* the city fails to clear that block, even tho it is directly on the way to a subway stop.

Why does it need to be a zero sum game btwn road clearing and sidewalk clearing? Surely this operational riddle cdn’t be that difficult to solve. And yet… #topoli

'dependent on cooperation'

Trying *so* hard to provoke a reaction…

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