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Byline: JOHN LORINC In the late 1940s, when William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government began publishing 'catalogues' filled with floor plans for modest homes meant to relieve a crippling post-Second [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC On paper, the project looks like precisely the kind of housing Toronto city officials and councillors say they want more of. Eight fairly spacious two- and three-bedroom [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Almost a decade ago, Toronto developer Montcrest Asset Management (then known as NYX) bought and rezoned a corner lot on Bayview Avenue, north of Sheppard Avenue, with [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail In the run-up to a gathering of Liberal Party VIPs at a Toronto hotel in February, 1977, a small crew of [...]

Byline: John Lorinc In an apparently unprecedented power move, the intelligence chiefs from the so-called Five Eyes gathered on a stage at Stanford University in California last fall to fire [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Even by marketing standards, the positioning seemed too rich by half. In mid-January, Manulife announced that its health insurance policyholders would henceforth be required to source about [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC When designers Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik decided to move back to Toronto after 20 years of living abroad, they set out to find an apartment with [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE; Staff TORONTO -- Toronto journalist John Lorinc has won a lucrative new U.S. prize for his book into the perils and possibilities of so-called smart cities. The [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC Toronto-based journalist and editor On Aug. 27, 1980, residents of Winnipeg and Ottawa woke up to a piece of disturbing news. The Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Earlier this spring, on the steppes of southwestern Ontario, federal and provincial pols gathered to announce that Volkswagen would soon begin constructing a mammoth electric vehicle battery [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC TORONTO -- They are the unsung workhorses of all high-rises: the slabs of poured concrete that separate one storey from the next, and one unit from its [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Over the past five years, Canadian policy makers at all three levels of government have become enamoured with a set of measures ostensibly designed to take some [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Mridul Sharma, a 27-yearold political analyst, lives with a roommate in a condo near the top of a 45-storey [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Journalist John Lorinc and former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz are among the nominees for this year's Donner Prize, which goes to the [...]

Byline: John Lorinc The young influencer's pose is both iconic and ubiquitous: Modelling a fashionable sundress, she turns one way and then the other, with only the presence of the [...]

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 It was hailed as a breakthrough - a private member's bill that sought to amend Ontario's Planning Act to allow a [...]

Byline: John Lorinc During a much-watched speech in Washington this past October, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland touted a new post-globalist way of thinking about trade. 'Democracies must make a conscious [...]

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 Earlier this year, when the City of Toronto mailed out a notification of the new vacant-homes tax, printed on double-side yellow paper, many residents noticed that the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail Call it anomalous intensification. On a small but growing number of quirky residential sites, independent contractors and landlords are figuring out [...]

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 Toronto-based journalist and senior editor for Spacing Magazine With its new sprawling housing reform bill, Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government has pulled out all the regulatory stops [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Like a growing number of tradespeople working in the Toronto-area's overheated construction sector, Megan Kinch, a journeyman electrician, builds [...]

Either extend the exemption to all capital gains, or get rid of it and offset it with a cut to income tax. Of course, that will never happen, because this [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Call it Canada's summer of discontent. Air travel sucked. The supermarket chains were gouging. Gas prices went crazy. And then, like a sour cherry on top of [...]

DREAM STATES John Lorinc (Coach House, Aug.) The labelling of seemingly everything - toasters, cars, fridges, keychains - as 'smart' that began in the first decade of this millennium continues [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC His latest book is Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, from which this essay is adapted In 2016, San Diego City Council [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail It's a question that comes up constantly in debates about Toronto's intensification plans: why doesn't the city encourage the construction of [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Whatever else one might think about Ontario Premier Doug Ford, there's little doubt that his Progressive Conservatives came away [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- W hen it comes to reducing carbon from buildings, the best solutions are the two-for-one deals - those design [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Between the mid-1990s, when my wife and I bought an affordable semi in a gentrifying working-class part of Toronto, and today's delusional housing market, I estimate the [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail Earlier this month, crews at a large construction site in Mississauga watched as the final building block of a long-delayed long-term [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Which dysfunctional workplace habits are you planning to bring back to the post-pandemic office, along with the pictures of your kids, souvenirs from that overpriced sun vacation [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- On a former farm in the hamlet of Embro, just west of Woodstock, Ont., builders are putting the finishing [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail Despite the huge sums of capital flowing into property development, financing green building projects is still a bumpy proposition. Nicole Langlois [...]

Byline: John Lorinc When Cynthia MacFarlane, who leads Mercer Canada's pay equity practice, lived in Norway for several years, she saw up close just how extraordinarily frank people there were [...]

Byline: John Lorinc There are few spectacles as riveting as the public unburdening of a whistleblower, those lone (or lonely) souls who come forward to call out the misdeeds of [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail Toronto's new Garden Suites policy, which is now entrenched in the neighbourhoods section of the Official Plan, offers an as-ofright approval, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Earlier this month, just two days after Toronto council approved a bylaw allowing the development of 'garden suites' in [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Are they urban dead zones, employment engines or a new form of vertical garage for cities with a [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail HAMILTON -- Lead Here's a rare 2021 supply chain story with a happy ending. Earlier this fall, the new tenants of [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Finding the site - a large 50by-135-foot lot with a stately Victorian home and a rear laneway - [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead With the global community hunkered down in Glasgow at COP26 and the timelines for confronting climate change growing [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead To even the most jaded observers, it seemed like an auspicious development in the long and mostly unproductive [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Earlier this month, Deirdre Norman, a pick-up hockey enthusiast who organizes both co-ed and women's shinny games in west-end Toronto, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead It's a troubling question that has been echoing through the condo towers in Canada's largest cities for the past two [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Before the City of Kingston last updated its official plan, a Toronto planning consultant had recommended appending midrise design guidelines [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Earlier this month, the Toronto-based developer Hullmark cut the ribbon on a modest 45-unit mid-rise project in Leslieville, [...]