"But how can Toronto, and the whole Greater Toronto Area, waste billions of dollars, while simultaneously finding other billions for what it actually needs but currently can’t afford? Easy. The Olympics, so the theory goes, will allow the region to demand funds beyond counting from the province and the federal government. Toronto will get to have its Olympic cake and eat it too – with the rest of the country’s taxpayers paying for the cake.
The thing is, Toronto doesn’t need to be a more famous city for two weeks. It needs to be a better city, for the people who live here, for decades to come. The same goes for the whole country."
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Sober second look...
Says, meh. Eh?
Toronto smart in other ways
by having removed bike lanes in places. Silly waste hardly confined to Olympics enthusiasm.
By their crackhead mayor?
Is he your role model?
Ad Hominem attacks seem to be your model
for attacking what you lack by other means.
So sorry
Did I insult your Imaginary Canadian Boyfriend?
Removed some,added others
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-moves-to-expand-down...
Their Op-ed
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/the-2024-toronto-...
"But how can Toronto, and the whole Greater Toronto Area, waste billions of dollars, while simultaneously finding other billions for what it actually needs but currently can’t afford? Easy. The Olympics, so the theory goes, will allow the region to demand funds beyond counting from the province and the federal government. Toronto will get to have its Olympic cake and eat it too – with the rest of the country’s taxpayers paying for the cake.
The thing is, Toronto doesn’t need to be a more famous city for two weeks. It needs to be a better city, for the people who live here, for decades to come. The same goes for the whole country."
Toronto is trying to fund new transit
CrossTown in particular, so I guess the point is that is more important and long lasting than a month of Olympics and para-Olympics.