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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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: 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 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 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 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; 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 [...]

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; 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 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; 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; 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 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 Lead Toronto-based journalist who covers sustainable building issues for The Globe and Mail and Corporate Knights When Justin Trudeau unveiled the federal government's plan to offer $5,000 [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead In the rush to renovate, landscape and generally make homes more conducive to, well, being at home, owners [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Mr. Cubitt's team was able to manage costs by sourcing readily available materials and, for the latest project, was able [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead With Toronto's 2018 laneway rental housing program finally generating new projects in older parts of the core, city [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead When Toronto interior designer Andrea Kantelberg began pitching developers on a 'healthy' condo concept about five years ago, [...]

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 Lead One weekday afternoon in July, Jane Auster and Andy Gort picked their way through the side streets of a neighbourhood [...]

Byline: John Lorinc John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about politics and urban affairs. He is senior editor of Spacing magazine. When top Canadian officials, including Prime Minister [...]

Byline: John Lorinc John Lorinc (@johnlorinc) is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about politics and urban affairs. He is senior editor of Spacing Magazine. Few subjects activate Canadians' sense of [...]

Byline: John Lorinc John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about politics and urban affairs. He is senior editor of Spacing magazine. After a Toronto cop peacefully arrested a [...]

Byline: John Lorinc John Lorinc (@johnlorinc) is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about politics and urban affairs. He is senior editor of Spacing Magazine. Amid the carnage and speculation that [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail On a recent sunny weekend afternoon, dog walkers, a few children and even the occasional automobile meandered along Bill Cameron Lane, [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC and SIRI AGRELL CITY LIFE When Rollin Stanley worked for the City of Toronto, he often joked that he didn't 'do suburbs.' Last month, shortly after he [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC; Special to The Globe and Mail GAME CHANGERS / THIS WEEK'S BOLDEST Why In what is destined to be a turning point in Stephen Harper's stint as [...]