On 7/27/15 5:42 PM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze

"BOSTON -- After a tortuous seven-month public process, the United States
Olympic Committee on Monday acknowledged that it had failed to win over
the people of Boston to host the 2024 Summer Games and it officially
pulled the plug on its bid to put forth Boston as America's host city."


Now Toronto is starting to make noises about competing to host the 2024 Olympics while patting themselves on the back for the just completed Panamericana games.
Way back a very vocal minority tried to get the PanAm games for Halifax.
The Feds only offered 700 million in assistance and the cost estimate was rising to 2 billion. Thank God saner heads prevailed.


I hope they pass. The games are money-losers. Cities, of course, don't
seem to mind being raped by the owners of professional sports teams into
building stadiums, which are also money-losers for the cities. Let the
billionaire owners of major sports teams pay for the building of their
own damned stadiums.