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.
#topoli The social and ecological disaster created by the Chorley switchback continues apace. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#topoli The social and ecological disaster created by the Chorley switchback continues apace. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
#wantitall What’s with Colonel Saunders sitting behind home plate?
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#wantitall What’s with Colonel Saunders sitting behind home plate?
#topoli Parks are for parking Episode whatever. Wychwood Barns. Note the toddlers in the background. Cc @alejandrabravo.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#topoli Parks are for parking Episode whatever. Wychwood Barns. Note the toddlers in the background. Cc @alejandrabravo.bsky.social
Let’s give this thing the right description: a concentration camp. Cc @nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Let’s give this thing the right description: a concentration camp. Cc @nytimes.com
#topoli A friendly Canada Day reminder that we somehow forgot how to build very ordinary and very effective apartment buildings like this guy - 88 units on Bathurst, no angular plane nonsense, no ridiculous windows, no bowling lane lay-outs. Just wide and light filled 1s and 2s. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
July 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#topoli A friendly Canada Day reminder that we somehow forgot how to build very ordinary and very effective apartment buildings like this guy - 88 units on Bathurst, no angular plane nonsense, no ridiculous windows, no bowling lane lay-outs. Just wide and light filled 1s and 2s. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
#topoli Literally on today’s council agenda…city PFR vehicle. And yet. Cc @alejandrabravo.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#topoli Literally on today’s council agenda…city PFR vehicle. And yet. Cc @alejandrabravo.bsky.social
Virtuoso headline writing.
May 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Virtuoso headline writing.
#topoli Happened to pass one of the most egregious cycling infrastructure fails in this city: the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t grade separated lanes on Eglinton near the Crosstown stops. This image is s.e. corner of Bathurst/Eglinton.
May 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#topoli Happened to pass one of the most egregious cycling infrastructure fails in this city: the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t grade separated lanes on Eglinton near the Crosstown stops. This image is s.e. corner of Bathurst/Eglinton.
#topoli The launch party for Messy Cities: Why we can’t plan everything (Coach House Books) will be June 3 at Henderson’s. Please join us!
May 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#topoli The launch party for Messy Cities: Why we can’t plan everything (Coach House Books) will be June 3 at Henderson’s. Please join us!
#topoli Spring has sprung: Birds singing, flowers blooming, and city/contractor trucks parking in parks…. (Wells Hill if anyone on this platform is paying attention.)
April 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#topoli Spring has sprung: Birds singing, flowers blooming, and city/contractor trucks parking in parks…. (Wells Hill if anyone on this platform is paying attention.)
#topoli When the short and notably undistinguished architectural history of the CoT Midrise Guidelines is written, I firmly believe that Monza on St. Clair West will be seen as the nadir of this soon to be eliminated form.
March 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#topoli When the short and notably undistinguished architectural history of the CoT Midrise Guidelines is written, I firmly believe that Monza on St. Clair West will be seen as the nadir of this soon to be eliminated form.
March 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#cdnpoli Life came at you fast, eh Pierre? (Source: CBC poll tracker newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...)
March 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#cdnpoli Life came at you fast, eh Pierre? (Source: CBC poll tracker newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...)
