@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.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialAlso, colour pencils…
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialThis 👇
@mandydaniels.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialEvery 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.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialWhere’s the barbaric cultural practices hotline when you really need it?
@lpgcanada.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialThanks 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.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialEmancipated chairs in a park setting, plus a sculpture depicting the resulting political battles, as imagined by municipal officials…
@coachhousebooks.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialWINNER 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... 💥
@spacing.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialIn an op-ed today, @albertkoehl.bsky.social argues that cycling advocates need to take over the script from Premier Ford spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialTis.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialCc @glynbowerman.bsky.social At some point, and this is WAY overdue, progressives need to begin calling out Toronto’s BIAs, with a few exceptions (Annex), for their staunch anti-urban defense of street parking. The urban left still views BIAs as benign and public spirited, and they’re just not.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialThe reunion tour…?
@spacing.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialSpacing'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...
@spacing.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialBefore 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...
@thestar.comReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialThe 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:
@gbayliss.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialI wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialThe detail about changing the turning radii at corners really got my attention.
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialSpacing 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...
@spacing.bsky.socialReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialEXCLUSIVE: 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.
@johnlorinc.bsky.socialAbsolutely.
@how-sen.comReposted by @johnlorinc.bsky.socialPhoto 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.
