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Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail By his own admission, artist Charles Pachter has for years had a lucrative side hustle, buying, renovating and flipping older buildings [...]

Planned 42-unit apartment in Toronto’s Grange area takes a common European approach to design, By his own admission, artist Charles Pachter has for years had a lucrative side hustle, buying, renovating and flipping older buildings in Toronto’s Queen West area and at the edge [...]

Byline: John Lorinc Calgary-based Eavor Technologies is poised to become a global cleantech success story, with an asterisk--about which, more in a moment. Tapping into Alberta's deep reservoir of drilling [...]

Governments across America support cleantech companies, and shares there are up since 2020. So why are cleantech stocks down in Canada?, Calgary-based Eavor Technologies is poised to become a global cleantech success story, with an asterisk—about which, more in a moment. Tapping into Alberta’s deep reservoir of drilling and chemical engineering [...]

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 [...]

When veteran set designer Nigel Churcher decided to rebuild his home, he ran into regulatory snarls, the sticker-shock of development charges and a host of unexpected hurdles, From the sidewalk, the fourplex that Nigel Churcher, a veteran Toronto art director and set designer, built over the past several years fits into the cheerful eclecticism of Little Italy [...]

Evidence shows that weather influences investing choices. Can acting on that knowledge lead to better returns?, Have you ever found yourself gazing pensively out the window, pondering the steadily darkening fall days or the unappealing prospect of hauling the dog out for a walk in a [...]

Shoeb Mohammad, an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Ontario Technical University, wrote his PhD thesis on corruption--but his interest in the field isn't merely academic. In the early [...]

New research suggests governments that want to promote progress need to distinguish between corruption and legitimate incentives, Shoeb Mohammad, an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Ontario Technical University, wrote his PhD thesis on corruption—but his interest in the field isn’t merely academic. In the early [...]

The St. Hilda’s towers in Toronto, a 350-apartment complex, have been undergoing a so-called ‘deep retrofit’, For about 50 years, the three brick towers have loomed large over the intersection of Dufferin Avenue and Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto, a monument to a previous generation’s ambition [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail About a year ago, Utile, a Montreal-based non-profit that develops and operates student rental housing, began leasing up its most recent [...]

Some builders and REITs have stepped into the breach, either by acquiring and transforming hotels or developing their own projects, About a year ago, Utile, a Montreal-based non-profit that develops and operates student rental housing, began leasing up its most recent project – a 205-bed apartment dubbed l’Ardoise (The Slate), [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

New technologies are blurring the lines between illegal corporate espionage and legitimate competitive intelligence, 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 a shot across [...]

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 [...]

Will high tech modular housing construction crack the affordability crisis?, According to some housing affordability advocates, the solution to soaring construction costs will involve buildings pieced together from preassembled room-sized modules that are winched into place and then fitted together [...]

Blair Scorgie of Sajecki Planning has pitched the city’s planning department to permit mixed-use development in all Toronto laneways, Updated: December 08, 2023 When Nadia Galati was growing up around Dufferin and Eglinton, they’d pay visits to their grandparents, Alfonso and Caterina, who lived in the heavily Italian-Canadian enclave [...]

Public-private partnerships have only worsened the delays and cost overruns that plague government megaprojects, leaving some jurisdictions seeking a better model, Updated: November 21, 2023 Seen from the clarifying distance of a decade, the hyped-up promises weren’t just cringeworthy but so far off the mark as to be mere guesswork. In [...]

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: 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 [...]

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 [...]