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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 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 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 When Ryerson University landscape planner Nina-Marie Lister found herself on the receiving end of a bylaw infraction citation last year [...]

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 Lead At a conference in Portland in 2019, planners, contractors and architects put their heads together to develop new ideas and typologies for accessory dwelling units, which [...]

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, Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- Lead Early in the new year, the Hamilton YWCA will open a 50unit affordable housing complex fitted out with [...]

Byline: JOHN LORINC, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead One reason passive house design has been slower to catch on in North America has to do with access to [...]