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A little of topic but hysterical:

What It Costs To Host The Olympic Games
Boston announced this week it will pull its bid for the 2024 Olympics, due in part to the huge costs associated with the games that could become a taxpayer burden. Here is a breakdown of what the Olympics cost their host cities:
  • $300 million: Regulation track-and-field stadium the entire community will be able to enjoy for decades to come
  • $5,000: Licensing rights for blue, yellow, black, and red Olympic rings
  • $870,000: Licensing rights for green Olympic ring
  • $9,000: Hedge that looks like a guy running
  • $65,000: Gymnast feed and trough
  • $50,000: Quietly burying another Bob Costas sex scandal
  • $18 million: Thrown straight into Olympic flame as tinder
  • $50,000: Incinerating bodies of athletes who perished during event
  • $600,000: Water wasted by Olympic divers showering off between heats
  • $28: Dry cleaning for Olympic mascot suit
  • $175,000: Study delineating exact ways hosting Olympics will devastate local economy for decades to come
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/wha...games-50947?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds
 
Don't forget about the street cleaners after the runners pass by.

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
That's one scenario - what if they are basically Airbnbing it pretty much all the time? And why should the land be sold to the homeowners when it really didn't belong to them in the first place?

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Listen. First of all, the islanders have the worst deal in the history of real estate, so how people come off as perceiving that they have some sort of freeloading, sweetheart deal is laughable at best. Why so many people have this contempt for them is one of the more perplexing mysteries.

Secondly, they own their homes...they lease the land.

Thirdly, it's one of the oldest residential nabes in the city, and certainly one of the most unique (not just in Toronto, but in NA). It compliments the rest of the islands. Why so many people are intent on destroying it is beyond me.
 
freshcutgrass said:
Listen. First of all, the islanders have the worst deal in the history of real estate, so how people come off as perceiving that they have some sort of freeloading, sweetheart deal is laughable at best. Why so many people have this contempt for them is one of the more perplexing mysteries.

Secondly, they own their homes...they lease the land.

Thirdly, it's one of the oldest residential nabes in the city, and certainly one of the most unique (not just in Toronto, but in NA). It compliments the rest of the islands. Why so many people are intent on destroying it is beyond me.
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The Island from day one was to be a hinterland, and skipping into the future, to the formation of Metropolitan Toronto. They wanted to convert the non-commercial land to parkland to replace recreational space lost the Gardiner.
 
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The media must be going crazy with a mayor who doesn't generate scandalous headlines.
 

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JWBF said:
The Island from day one was to be a hinterland, and skipping into the future, to the formation of Metropolitan Toronto. They wanted to convert the non-commercial land to parkland to replace recreational space lost the Gardiner.
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I have no idea what you are going on about. The residential communities have been there since day one.

And if they were so interested in creating more recreational space to replace what they demolished building the Gardiner, why did they demolish the existing recreational space on the Islands and replace it with an airport instead???? How did that increase park/recreational use on the islands???? They decreased it....the airport sucks up 215 of the 825 total acres that comprise the islands....the residential community (that has never been parkland) totals 33 acres ( 4% ).

Considering that twice as many people travelled to the islands for recreation 100 years ago than do now, I'd say that plan has been a colossal failure)
 
American blogger’s comments have ‘no place’ in Toronto: Mayor John Tory
While Canada does have laws against hate speech, the legal bar for prosecution is high and requires some indication that the person intended to promote hatred of a particular group, said Wayne Sumner of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics.

“What the mayor is basically doing is condemning the views this guy holds, distancing himself from him,” but he has no legal authority to shut down the event, Sumner said.
[...]
While many on social media hailed Tory for speaking out against Valizadeh, some said cancelling the show would undermine free speech.

“Freedom of speech isn’t supposed to be comfortable. It only works if it includes those whose messages bother you,” one wrote.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...e-in-toronto-mayor-john-tory/article25923317/
 
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freshcutgrass said:
I have no idea what you are going on about. The residential communities have been there since day one.

And if they were so interested in creating more recreational space to replace what they demolished building the Gardiner, why did they demolish the existing recreational space on the Islands and replace it with an airport instead???? How did that increase park/recreational use on the islands???? They decreased it....the airport sucks up 215 of the 825 total acres that comprise the islands....the residential community (that has never been parkland) totals 33 acres ( 4% ).

Considering that twice as many people travelled to the islands for recreation 100 years ago than do now, I'd say that plan has been a colossal failure)
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That you have no idea is not surprising. The first hotels on the still peninsula happened about 1830 to 1840. The Toronto Islands came into being in 1858, lots were first leased in 1867 (when Toronto took possession of the islands) followed by summer homes a few years later. Not since day one.

The airport predates Metro Toronto and their plan, and the land the airport occupies was the area of the second Hanlan's Stadium (abandoned by the Toronto Maple Leafs) and the Hanlan's Hotel that burned down years before.
 
JWBF said:
The first hotels on the still peninsula happened about 1830 to 1840. The Toronto Islands came into being in 1858, lots were first leased in 1867 (when Toronto took possession of the islands) followed by summer homes a few years later. Not since day one.
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You're just being annoyingly pedantic. After 150 years, I think it's safe to say that the islands have always had a residential component.


JWBF said:
The airport predates Metro Toronto and their plan, and the land the airport occupies was the area of the second Hanlan's Stadium (abandoned by the Toronto Maple Leafs) and the Hanlan's Hotel that burned down years before.
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Since many homes were moved or demolished to make way for the airport, that theory doesn't wash either.
 
The bottom line is that Metro wanted ALL of the residential community gone, regardless of when it was built. A lot of the built up community disappeared in the Metro era.
 
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