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That isn't nearly enough land to meet the requirements.

And despite having no large vacant parcels of land, we will be able to totally avoid displacement problems! http://www.bostonagainstolympics.bid/why-oppose/housing-and-displacement/

Like I said, a functional democracy.

At this point I think Toronto actually deserves the Olympics, in a "careful what you wish for" way. It could be written up in history as the last time a country with a functional democracy hosted the Olympics.

JT isn't leading the effort.

But the Olympics don't advance cities. Host cities have shown that again and again.

So you're OK with sacrificing neighbourhoods but you can't say which ones? Should we wait for the IOC to tell which ones they've chosen?

I never preached neighbourhood sanctity. I was the first to bring up sacrificing them. We just need to work out which ones. Why don't you actually name some, since you think it's OK? You don't know what "actual lived experience" means? That explains a lot.

The unimportant neighbourhoods will be the first to go, so you're in luck.

No Olympics follows the Pan Am model (if there even is such a thing, the Pan Ams are so irrelevant). It's extremely weird that so many commenters here dismiss out of hand the actual lived experience of Olympics host cities, to whom all the same promises were made as are being made to Toronto...

You first.

The bids don't involve razing homes, preparing for the actual Olympics does. It's a bait-and-switch. It happened in London and Sochi, not in the distant past. Of course the IOC makes a profit. It's a private for-profit organization. There is no other reason for them to do this. But the...

http://www.nobostonolympics.org/ I can't wait to see how it will be rationalized that Toronto will avoid all the problems that concern Boston.

I figure the thing to do is enjoy the seven-year Rationalization Championships leading up to the actual Olympics, watch for milestones like the first person to complain that their small retail business has been destroyed by all the nearby construction, the first person to find out the Olympics...

LOL, haven't you noticed that the Olympics always involve levelling pre-existing neighbourhoods? The Olympics never just make do with whatever spaces happen to be readily available.

Let's talk about which neighbourhoods we are willing to sacrifice to build Olympic venues.

LOL. The Olympics are not going to re-use more than a few minor Pan Am sites. The Olympics are a real-estate scam, so what'll happen is, whole neighbourhoods will be scraped away, and Ontario Place and the Exhibition buildings will be demolished, all for new Olympic sites. And that's just for...

Nutjobs can plan. Magnotta did.

Nope. Shooting at civilians is terrorism, not soldiers. If there is no political motivation, it's not terrorism. This could just be a public shooting spree, which is still very bad, but not the same thing as terrorism.

No one knows if it's actual terrorism. There could be any number of things going on with the shooters. Maybe they're just nutjobs.