Your hearing from a lil birdie. You can expect HBC's Home Outfitters chain to have a downtown Toronto presence within a year or two. Exec's are currently scouting retail space. There should be another 5 locations opening up within the GTA as well. The chain is also expanding outside of Canada...

Competition is gonna be weak compared to the last few Summer Olympic Games bids.

2020 Summer Olympic Games Bid Process Starts Monday, May 23, 2011 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) began its bidding process Monday for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The winning city will be announced in 2013. Rome, Italy is the only candidate so far, but bids are still possible...

Do you think Rob Ford will fully support a bid?

Canada has officially put forth its bid for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and we are basically the frontrunners to win. Toronto could possibly be chosen as two host venues for the event. 2015 is shaping up to be a great year sports wise for our city

Is York University the best option for a track stadium now? I wish there was more room to fully expand Varsity Stadium downtown.

I agree but I don't know how much of a negative effect Vancouver 2010 will have on a Toronto bid.

First Cape Town bows out. Now it's Madrid, Spain. The race for 2020 just got easier.

After successfully hosting the 2010 World Cup, South Africa's Olympic committee stated its intentions of submitting a bid for the 2020 Olympics. There will be a domestic bid first before the winning city is submitted to the IOC for formal bidding for 2020. Cape Town, South Africa will not bid...

Yeah I'm quite interested in an Istanbul Olympic bid. There past bids weren't the best technically and paled in comparison to the competition.

It would be a total waste of money and make completely no sense. Quebec City won't win. Does Canada really need 3 sets of Winter Olympic Venues? If this new guy actually pushes this. I can bet that he will be searching for a new job afterwards.

Quebec City won't get an endorsement from the COC for a 2022 Winter Olympics. How dumb would that be considering the last Olympics Canada would have hosted would be the Vancouver "WINTER" Olympics in 2010. How retarded is that! The COC has stated in the past that they will focus on building up...

Istanbul announced today that they'll be entering the bidding race for the 2020 Olympics.

Maybe because those events wouldn't get the government to pour money into our city and fast track projects.

Ugh your comparing Athen's bid to a Paris bid? Athen's struggled to organize their 2004 Olympics on time and went ridiculously way over budget. Venue construction was still going on a week before the Olympics opened up and let's not forget that they couldn't even finish construction on their...

lol..my "I" button wasn't cooperating with me yesterday..lol:p

What would you call the Pan Ams? 1st tier? I support the Toronto 2015 Pan Ams but they are a 2nd tier sporting event. And with the addition of a lot of new sporting facilities. I see it very likely Toronto and its surrounding regions will host many sporting events, World...

Why would Toronto go after another 2nd tier sporting event? After hosting the Pan-Ams wouldn't you think they would go for the big prize? Hosting the Pan Ams will gain the city experience under their belt to tell the IOC "YES WE KNOW HOW TO HOST BIG MULTI-SPORTING EVENTS".

One would likely think this way. But looking into Olympic politics and what not. I see the 2024 Olympics landing in Paris for the 100th Anniversary since the last Olympics held in Paris 1924. It would set a good stage for them. Plus like Toronto, Paris has bidded numerous times and has lost...

Just to add to the discussion is this piece from the Toronto Star. TORONTO HAS 20-20 OLYMPIC VISION...OR IS THAT 20-24? Don’t think for a minute this isn’t serious talk. Yes, we’ve all been down this road before. Several times, for some of us. Toronto got smoked when it...