John Lorinc
@johnlorinc.bsky.social
Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
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John Lorinc
@johnlorinc.bsky.social
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No Jews Live Here
A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of...
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#booksky New from me, No Jews Live Here, a memoir from @coachhousebooks chbooks.com/Books/N/No-J...
I’ll take it.
Even the Canadian Platonic ideal of treachery is American....
December 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’ll take it.
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Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme? A new player has joined the Ontario Place melodrama — a mega-investor with billions to spend, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social. #TOpoli #ONpoli
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Who's behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that's bought into Therme? - Spacing Toronto
Back in the summer, Therme went public with a somewhat perplexing development in its corporate life — a €1 billion merger of its two, somewhat related, operating divisions: Therme Erding, which owns t...
spacing.ca
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme? A new player has joined the Ontario Place melodrama — a mega-investor with billions to spend, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social. #TOpoli #ONpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
How did Holocaust denial become a ‘purity test’? The moral relativism is totally appalling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How did Holocaust denial become a ‘purity test’? The moral relativism is totally appalling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Amazing! Great to have this endorsement.
SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread!
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Amazing! Great to have this endorsement.
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Stop by the @spacingstore.bsky.social - open till Xmas eve - for all the city gifts you didn’t know you needed to give. And best curated city book nook. Sorry to say we took home the last IKEA Monkey ornament this afternoon. But there’s still Springer Dinger posters. 🎁
December 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Stop by the @spacingstore.bsky.social - open till Xmas eve - for all the city gifts you didn’t know you needed to give. And best curated city book nook. Sorry to say we took home the last IKEA Monkey ornament this afternoon. But there’s still Springer Dinger posters. 🎁
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Attention all booksellers, librarians, and influencers! Sign up for our newsletter created specifically for you, in your book-focused role, as we head into 2026 with anticipation for our Spring/Summer season: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Attention all booksellers, librarians, and influencers! Sign up for our newsletter created specifically for you, in your book-focused role, as we head into 2026 with anticipation for our Spring/Summer season: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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10. Messy Cities - Why We Can’t Plan Everything by @dylanreid.bsky.social, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and @JohnLorinc. bsky.app/profile/moda...
"Urbanism blurs the lines between the planned and the unplanned, the predictable and the surprising, the safe and the spontaneous.
If our goal is to achieve exceptional cities and places, a space must be found in our planning for some deliberate and intentional messiness.” @jasonthorne.bsky.social
If our goal is to achieve exceptional cities and places, a space must be found in our planning for some deliberate and intentional messiness.” @jasonthorne.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
10. Messy Cities - Why We Can’t Plan Everything by @dylanreid.bsky.social, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and @JohnLorinc. bsky.app/profile/moda...
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Originally published in 1967, Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters is our feature from the Coach House archive this week:
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Originally published in 1967, Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters is our feature from the Coach House archive this week:
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2025-19 💙📚
Messy Cities is about the unplanned aspects of cities that make cities great. A great series of essays edited by @dylanreid.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social et al.
Messy Cities is about the unplanned aspects of cities that make cities great. A great series of essays edited by @dylanreid.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social et al.
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
2025-19 💙📚
Messy Cities is about the unplanned aspects of cities that make cities great. A great series of essays edited by @dylanreid.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social et al.
Messy Cities is about the unplanned aspects of cities that make cities great. A great series of essays edited by @dylanreid.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social et al.
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Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
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#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto's door - Spacing Toronto
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
#cdnpoli A funny thing happened on the way to The White House: the US economy has turned into a dumpster fire of inflation thanks to tariffs while Canada’s economy, deemed unnecessary and inconsequential by Trump, is showing remarkable resilience… 🇨🇦
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Canada swings to first trade surplus in seven months on export boost
Selling more private jets, trucks and gold to the U.S. in September contributed to small surplus
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#cdnpoli A funny thing happened on the way to The White House: the US economy has turned into a dumpster fire of inflation thanks to tariffs while Canada’s economy, deemed unnecessary and inconsequential by Trump, is showing remarkable resilience… 🇨🇦
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
#topoli New from me in @theglobeandmail.com: Will Toronto’s substantially overhauled land use plan meet this moment, i.e., a major market correction and the bursting of the condo bubble? www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
Will Toronto’s land use plans meet the moment?
With cancelled towers and builders leaving the condo market, the prospect of a half-realized long-term growth plan for the city seems like a very real risk
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#topoli New from me in @theglobeandmail.com: Will Toronto’s substantially overhauled land use plan meet this moment, i.e., a major market correction and the bursting of the condo bubble? www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
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'[The book's essays] bring to vivid life what it means to be a part of a connected community.'
Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Building Blocks | Literary Review of Canada
Frances Bula reviews “The Rise of the Neighbourhoodin Canada, 1880s–2020s” by Richard Harris and “Messy Cities,” edited by Dylan Reid, et al.
reviewcanada.ca
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
'[The book's essays] bring to vivid life what it means to be a part of a connected community.'
Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
Read about Messy Cities (ed. @shebuildscities.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, @dylanreid.bsky.social, @johnlorinc.bsky.social) in the Literary Review of Canada: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
This is surprising…
Doug Ford says he won’t stop Toronto from raising land transfer tax for some homes
Toronto land transfer tax: Doug Ford won't block increase
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will not be blocking Toronto from increasing its land transfer tax, despite a letter from the city’s realtors urging him to do so.
www.cp24.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is surprising…
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Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored
go.nature.com/3YkIXfu
go.nature.com/3YkIXfu
How to get science back into policymaking
Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored.
go.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Misunderstanding and hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored
go.nature.com/3YkIXfu
go.nature.com/3YkIXfu
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Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
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I try to be extra nice to store staff because they have to listen to that crap repeated all day.
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I try to be extra nice to store staff because they have to listen to that crap repeated all day.
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"To dislike the category of Christmas music is to dislike not the music, but what it represents. For many, it’s just a stand-in for all the worst parts of the holiday: the forced consumerism, the pressure to be jolly, the emotionally fraught family time"
absolutely NAILED it right there, Mr Lorinc
absolutely NAILED it right there, Mr Lorinc
#topoli New from me in the @TorontoStar: it’s time we talked about Xmas music in every retail outlet, and why Santa Baby is breaking our brains… 🎶 (Take the poll.) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Joy to the World: Christmas is here and so is the music!
Hearing the same Christmas songs transports me to this time last year, ten years ago, thirty years ago, when I was a little kid
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"To dislike the category of Christmas music is to dislike not the music, but what it represents. For many, it’s just a stand-in for all the worst parts of the holiday: the forced consumerism, the pressure to be jolly, the emotionally fraught family time"
absolutely NAILED it right there, Mr Lorinc
absolutely NAILED it right there, Mr Lorinc
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It's just that most of it is so baaaaaaad. And, yes, repetition can bring familiarity and pleasure. But having to listen to air passing through overlarge adenoids time after endless time brings only despair.
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's just that most of it is so baaaaaaad. And, yes, repetition can bring familiarity and pleasure. But having to listen to air passing through overlarge adenoids time after endless time brings only despair.
#topoli New from me in the @TorontoStar: it’s time we talked about Xmas music in every retail outlet, and why Santa Baby is breaking our brains… 🎶 (Take the poll.) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Joy to the World: Christmas is here and so is the music!
Hearing the same Christmas songs transports me to this time last year, ten years ago, thirty years ago, when I was a little kid
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#topoli New from me in the @TorontoStar: it’s time we talked about Xmas music in every retail outlet, and why Santa Baby is breaking our brains… 🎶 (Take the poll.) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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“I was interested in the … unfinished quality you find in paintings by Jackson Pollock, for instance, or de Kooning … I wanted to try that out in a building.” www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...
Frank Gehry, legendary architect of some of the world’s most iconic buildings, dies at 96
Gehry defined his own idiosyncratic path in Toronto, Los Angeles and around the world
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“I was interested in the … unfinished quality you find in paintings by Jackson Pollock, for instance, or de Kooning … I wanted to try that out in a building.” www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...