John Lorinc

#booksky New from me, No Jews Live Here, a memoir from @coachhousebooks chbooks.com/Books/N/No-J...

Great buzz at the @spacing.bsky.social election party!

I just don’t understand these barriers.

Bike Lane Standoff Continues on Bloor St. W. in TO as Construction Crews Forced to Leave Again #safecycling #saferroads #ebikes tinyurl.com/yt9mf5n5

"the way these two ordinary residents did"... I have bad news for you, @johnlorinc.bsky.social (it was me & @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social )

If you're feeling depressed by the mayoral election, this very good @johnlorinc.bsky.social analysis might explain why

Olivia Chow could've run a campaign focused on standing up to Queen's Park — she didn't, and now we have to live with the potential consequences, writes senior editor John Lorinc. @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Happy five years to Perry King's REBOUND! Read his post below, and then check out the book here: chbooks.com/Books/R/Rebo...

spacing.ca/toronto/2026... While councillor candidates tout their green credentials, environmental issues have been overlooked in the mayoral race, specifically by Brad Bradford ,who has ignored all calls to answer TEA's survey about the climate crisis. #TOpoli

Cycle networks create affordable living and reduce social isolation.I have recently been cycling and touring in London, Copenhagen, and Sweden and cycled last year in Paris, Nice, Helsinki and in various parts of Italy. In cycle friendly cities that are integrated with transit people are moving.

Correction 👇

New from me in @torontostar-rss.bsky.social : The legal strategy behind the bike lane fight, and why this case could have national implications. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I hold to my long-standing theory that DJT is the most effective mole the KGB ever deployed.

DON'T watch an election alone. Come to our @spacing.bsky.social election watch party.

As the 2026 city election approaches, Catherine Dumé looks at how we can make voting more accessible for electors with disabilities. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.

Re-posting this column, which is as relevant now as it was in the spring: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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shame

PNG. Please go. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Thrilled to see some of our members' books appear on the CBC Books 2026 Fall Reading List! ➡️ Check out We Are Underlings, Housing Inc., and Dodge City from @houseofanansi.bsky.social, and Women, Walking from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social!

New from me on @spacing: in Paris, there are bikes & cycling infrastructure everywhere & no traffic jams. Here, we’ve had to resort to civil disobedience to defend the few lanes we have. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Just out of an event and seeing this. Wow.

How grown up cities do this:

Tonight at the JCC: @maggiehelwig.bsky.social will be in conversation with @shawnmicallef.bsky.social (Stroll) on Helwig's book ENCAMPMENT! We're sure there'll be lots of interesting things to hear about Toronto and all of its pressing social issues. Few tickets left: app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...

On CBC Books' Fall Reading List: Women, Walking: Notes on Lives in Motion eds. @zahraeb.bsky.social & Jane Farrow! www.cbc.ca/books/cbc-bo...

How grown up cities do this:

GIRLS FALL DOWN by Maggie Helwig is out today! Selected for One Book Toronto 2012 and short-listed for the 2009 Toronto Book Award, Girls Fall Down is now available in a new reissue from Coach House Books: chbooks.com/Books/G/Girl...

This 👇

Every social media platform needs to make it perfectly clear, right now, that anyone posting pictures or videos of this will be permanently banned from holding an account or posting on their platform.

Where’s the barbaric cultural practices hotline when you really need it?

Thanks to BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here are the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in September '26. Ft. top 10 from @biblioasis.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @invisibooks.bsky.social.

Emancipated chairs in a park setting, plus a sculpture depicting the resulting political battles, as imagined by municipal officials…

WINNER of the Quebec Booksellers’ Award, Best Novel FINALIST for the Quebec College Students’ Award FINALIST for the First Novel Award From Sébastien Dulude and translator Pablo Strauss, ASBESTOS is officially out today: chbooks.com/Books/A/Asbe... 💥

In an op-ed today, @albertkoehl.bsky.social argues that cycling advocates need to take over the script from Premier Ford spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Spacing's new election (and post-election) issue profiles the people and organizations that shape the discussion on key urban issues. Available now at the @spacingstore.bsky.social store and soon at other fine stores and subscriber mailboxes spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Before it was the Bentway and condos, the space around the Gardiner Expressway west of Bathurst was a concrete plant (and before that, a harbour quay). Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos of that earlier industrial era. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

The Star’s If I Were Mayor contest is asking students at the TDSB and TCDSB how they’d make their city better to live, learn and play in. If we love your idea, you could win a prize and be featured in the Star. Check it out here:

I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Spacing got its hands on the RFP for the province's attack on Toronto's bike lanes. My main thought is that nobody in the Premier's Office has considered even the narrow, political downside risk for them here. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social

Photo from Reddit of today’s Critical Mass. There are hundreds of cyclists in this photo and only about 40 people in cars. Yet both groups are taking up roughly the same amount of road space.

Finally got around to reading Alberta’s referendum ‘questions’ which are actually mini speeches. A veritable case study in how to construct a leading question. Sd be req’d reading for polling 101… albertareferendum2026.ca/constitution...

Spacing is very pleased to have our issue 70, "Civic Memories," nominated for a 2026 Toronto Heritage Award in the Public History category! www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

Please join us in congratulating Lisa Robertson, a finalist for the 2026 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for RIVERWORK!

The fact that the world has become somewhat innured to Trump’s bombast shouldn’t obscure the pure evil in his rhetoric about Iran. Genuinely evil. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

ICYMI from me in @thestar.com y’da: the recent alarmist warnings from tech execs has only muddied the waters in the crucial debate over govt regulation of AI, esp. in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A packed launch last night for WOMEN, WALKING, edited by Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow! Thanks to everyone for coming out to support this anthology and making it such a fun night, to Zahra and Jane, and to all of the contributors (both in attendance and sending their support from afar). 🚶‍♀️📚❤️

See you tonight for the Women, Walking launch in Toronto! Remarks from the editors, Zahra Ebrahim and Jane Farrow, will begin at 7:30 PM.

Out Sep. 22 -- explore Dominique Béchard's SHADOW OF THE LIVING BRIGHTNESS via All Lit Up below 🤍