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Newsstand: July 27, 2015
It's still hot as all get-out, so don't... get out... if you don't have to. And please blame the bad joke on the weather. In the news today: a Toronto bid on the 2024 Olympics seems increasingly likely, Eve Adams lost her Liberal nomination, and when Kanye West performed last night boring haters didn't destroy the city.
The Pan Am Games have wrapped up, with Canada winning a national best number of medals (and coming in second only to the United States), and now speculation is heating up over an Olympic bid for 2024. The presidents of both the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee have said they support the move, and John Tory said the city will weigh the costs of bidding and hosting against the benefits. Toronto has already bid unsuccessfully three times to host the Olympics, and Tory doesn’t want to lead a fourth failed bid.
Eve Adams, the former Conservative MP who crossed the floor in February and was welcomed into the Liberal Party by leader Justin Trudeau himself, has lost her nomination for the seat of Eglinton-Lawrence. The seat is currently occupied by Minister of Finance Joe Oliver, but before he won in 2011 it had gone to Liberals in every election since 1979. Adams lost decisively to Marco Mendicino, a lawyer and former riding association executive. Adams had asked the Conservative Party to allow her to run for nomination after crossing over to the Liberal Party, and she and her fiancé Dimitri Soudas have been accused of paying for party memberships, though they’ve denied that.
Despite a petition that attracted far too many signatures, Kanye West took the stage at last night’s Pan Am Games closing ceremonies. The show featured a “career-spanning” collection of West’s hits, but ended rather abruptly when the sound to the mic cut out and wouldn’t come back. West tossed the mic in the air and walked off stage after trying in vain to fix it.