John Lorinc

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John Lorinc is a Canadian journalist, whose book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias won the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy in 2022. [1] The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Donner Prize in the same year. [2]

Lorinc, who writes on urban affairs, politics, business and technology, has been a contributor to The Globe and Mail , The Walrus , the Toronto Star , Maclean's , Toronto Life and Spacing . [3]

He has also been a two-time Toronto Book Award nominee, receiving nods in 2016 as coauthor with Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor of The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood, [4] and in 2017 as coauthor with Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer and Ed Jackson of Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "John Lorinc wins $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy". Quill & Quire , November 29, 2022.
  2. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "2022 Donner Prize shortlist announced". Quill & Quire , April 11, 2023.
  3. ↑ Nikky Manfredi, "John Lorinc's Dream States wins $60K prize for best Canadian public policy book". CBC Books, November 30, 2022.
  4. ↑ Debra Yeo, "Cordelia Strube wins 2016 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star , October 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ van Koeverden, Jane (August 24, 2017). "Jen Agg, Catherine Hernandez nominated for Toronto Book Awards". CBC News .


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