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Women can jump. And, skate. And, canoe...

February 1, 2011
| Interview with sport journalist Laura Robinson on the past year in women's sport and the International Olympic Committee's consistent obstruction of women’s equal access to international sport events.

31:18 minutes (28.67 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

U of T Scarborough students vote 'yes' to subsidize Pan Am Games facility

March 23, 2010
| "The proponents of a yes-side misinformed students stressing, ‘Vote No and Lose It All'," said Joeita Gupta, VP External of the Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students and Student Governor.

33:17 minutes (30.48 MB)
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Deficits will own the podium

No cost has been spared in mounting a giant spectacle of spandex-clad athletes performing dazzling feats in massive public venues.

Certainly, nobody seems to be letting the $6 billion price tag for Vancouver's Olympic extravaganza get in the way.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not against sports. I appreciate the nuances of a fine skeleton performance as much as the next person.

My point is simply to question why goals other than mounting gala sports events are routinely dismissed on the grounds that we can't afford them.

Of course, sports extravaganzas often have side benefits. We're told that with the 2015 Pan Am Games coming here, Toronto may finally get its public transit system upgraded.

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| Oriel Varga, a spokesperson for No Games Toronto, says the city needs a deep investment in public services; not a gamble in a one-time mega sporting event.

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Group says ‘No’ to Pan Am Games in Toronto

By John Bonnar
| September 5, 2009

It’s a sunny August morning and spoken word artist Sistah Lois is singing about love between our mothers and our fathers, our brothers and our sisters and everything that functions on the planet.

“Freedom,” yells Lois, under the watchful eye of nine police officers guarding Varsity Stadium across the street from the University of Toronto Association of Part Time Undergraduate Students (APUS) building.

“We have the right to education. This is a system in which those who have rarely support fully those who have not. It’s genocide. But they casually refer to it as a little povertyism.”

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Petition: No Tax for Pan Am Games (Toronto, 2015)

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