About John Lorinc
Born 1963. John Lorinc is a Canadian editor, journalist and writer.
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. The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Donner Prize in the same year.
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. He graduated with a bachelor of science from University College at the University of Toronto in 1987, where he contributed to its student newspaper, The Varsity.
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, 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.
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Who is John Lorinc?
Canadian journalist
When was John Lorinc born?
John Lorinc was born in 1963.
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John Lorinc is an editor, journalist and writer.
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John Lorinc is Canadian.
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