Even the beautiful game generates hideous bills.
To understand the lopsided escapade in hosting even a morsel of the early stages of soccer’s World Cup next June and early July for Toronto and Vancouver—and Ontario, British Columbia and all Canadian taxpayers, thanks to Ottawa—it requires an astonishing loss of agency.
But let’s try to unpack it.
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Kirk LaPointe is The Hub‘s B.C. Correspondent. He is a transplanted Ontarian to British Columbia. Before he left, he ran CTV News, Southam News and the Hamilton Spectator. He also helped launch the National Post as its first executive editor, was a day-one host on CBC Newsworld, and ran the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press. His B.C. experiences include being managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, the English-language ombudsman of the CBC, and most recently the publisher and editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president editorial of its parent company, Glacier Media. He ran and finished second for the Vancouver mayoralty in 2014. He has taught for two decades at the UBC School of Journalism and now writes columns for Glacier Media.
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