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Calling himself a mathematician who did law in his spare time, he had a passion for public-interest law, which led to appearances at inquests into police shootings of Black men and at high-profile inquiries, In the run-up to a gathering of Liberal Party VIPs at a Toronto hotel in February, 1977, a small crew of activists called the Committee Against Racism concocted a scheme [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- A few years ago, before the fight to eliminate exclusionary zoning became a talking point for politicians across the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- In the past few years, Frank Giralico, a sales representative for Capital North Realty, was doing a brisk trade [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Architects and contractors who have cobbled together a portfolio of laneway suite projects in the past few years are [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead National: CMHC Green Home (partial refund on mortgage insurance for green retrofits, up to 25 per cent of premium) Natural [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead The renderings showed a pair of townhouse complexes, with blocks of mid-rise apartments directly behind. One block contains [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TORONTO -- Lead On a recent Sunday morning, Tory Crowder and Shawn Thomas's home in Toronto's Etobicoke area looked and sounded a great deal like, well, a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead It's one of Toronto's most tangled land-use headaches. With 600 properties comprising more than 2,000 hectares, the Toronto [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and MailA mid Chinatown's raucous Toronto street mosaic, the buff brick building on the northeast corner of Dundas and Spadina has been mostly [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- When Mazyar Mortazavi, CEO of TAS Design Build, decided to re-develop the old Shriner's temple on Keele Street, south [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Almost a decade after Toronto Community Housing Corp. announced that the Daniels Corp. would be its developer partner for [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- For all the months they've spent fixating on interior features such as doors, closet sizes and the location of [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail 'Lovely day we're having today,' says a baseball-cap wearing contractor with a chuckle, his arm slung out the passenger window. He [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC CITY PLANNING In the constellation of Toronto's public spaces, the string of forlorn parkettes extending along the midtown rail corridor have long had a decidedly back-of-beyond feel [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TRANSPORTATION Toronto's leaders have not persuaded the public of the need for more spending on transit to break through the region's growing gridlock. Surveys from the province's [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC BIKE SAFETY As all children and many adults know, there's something deeply enticing about playing on the road. But a growing number of international cities have leveraged [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail MANAGING COSTS The Ford administration is poised to take another crack at reforming council's office expense policy, a topic that has [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and MailSURFACE ROUTESIt's a phrase that's become something of a slogan for LRT opponents in recent years: Don't approve 'another St. Clair.' As [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail EGLINTON CROSSTOWN STATION Toronto's most notoriously occluded intersection could soon be facing a full blockage. City officials may close some or [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC BUDGET SHORTFALLS It may well be the defining dilemma of local politics in this grinding post-recession period: While rapidly growing North American cities confront vast infrastructure needs, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail DEVELOPMENT SCHEME Councillor Doug Ford's new development scheme for the Port Lands risks a significantly revised environmental assessment, throwing into doubt [...]

Byline: John Lorinc; Special to The Globe and Mail The TTC is now talking to Metrolinx about a possible long-term deal to maintain and operate the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail WORST INTERSECTIONS / GUNN'S ROAD The Place Over the past 20 years, the city has meticulously erased all vestiges of a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail WORST INTERSECTIONS / THE SKINNY ON SHORTCUTS Worst intersection or worst shortcut? Last week, WI published a tip on how to [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TRANSIT CITY As Rob Ford's fledgling administration presses ahead with an election promise to scrap Transit City in favour of subways, [...]

EARLIER this month, Global X Funds of New York announced plans for two exchange-traded funds -- one for gold stocks, the other, uranium. Initially, Bruno del Ama, its chief executive, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail, with a report from The Canadian Press TRANSIT Canada's six national banks and Quebec's Caisse Desjardins, as well as Visa, MasterCard [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TRANSIT The American architect Daniel Burnham, father of modern Chicago, is reputed to have told colleagues to 'make no small plans' - a muscular exhortation that has [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC THE RAIL LINK File this one under late arrivals. In a previous guise, the long-coveted public-private rail link between Union Station and Lester B. Pearson International Airport [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail FARE TECHNOLOGY Vowing to press ahead with an open-fare payment system as an alternative to Ontario's Presto smartcard, Toronto Transit Commission [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail MUNICIPAL FINANCES A major municipality with a progressive mayor found itself tackling a chronic operating budget shortfall, a troubled transit system [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail URBAN DEVELOPMENT Queen's Park may soon be sporting a strange protrusion. A proposal to replace the Four Seasons Hotel on Avenue [...]

Byline: John Lorinc; Special to The Globe and Mail IN BRIEF Toronto school trustee Josh Matlow has announced he's running for city council in next fall's municipal election, contesting the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Toronto journalist and author of The New City All but unnoticed amid the excitement over Barack Obama's election last November, California voters endorsed a highly anticipated ballot [...]

Byline: John Lorinc; Special to The Globe and Mail It's an unexpected marriage of Herb Tarlek's sartorial style and a recession-appropriate rendition of eco-chic. Early next year, Toronto-based Umbra will [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail Across northern York Region, residents and farmers are up in arms over an Ontario Power Authority plan to build a privately [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail They represent very different stretches of Eglinton Avenue, but two Toronto councillors think it's time to bury the idea of building [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail During Wednesday morning's snowstorm, lawyer Cindy Wilkey trudged along an inhospitable stretch of Queens Quay East, conjuring images of what the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to the Globe and Mail Standing outside Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School one snowy afternoon this week, parent Carrie Spanton had some very, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail The Mount Pleasant Cemetery could begin felling trees before the new year as part of its plans to erect a 2,400-square-metre [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail A blue-chip design panel has criticized the latest architectural plans for the first major development planned for the Toronto waterfront, a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to the Globe and Mail A quiet revolution in city building is under way in pockets of Toronto where councillors and residents groups are challenging the [...]