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BethAnne said:
Translate please, Jae
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Translate BethAnne? Wow, I thought you were doing really well at understanding my gibberish. Anyway, I said - "Hot... smoky... that woulds wound goop devow edit allking outs almond," meaning...

Hot... smokey... that would sound good if you were talking about salmon.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Translate BethAnne? Wow, I thought you were doing really well at understanding my gibberish. Anyway, I said - "Hot... smoky... that woulds wound goop devow edit allking outs almond," meaning...

Hot... smokey... that would sound good if you were talking about salmon.
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For the most part, I can figure it out...brain is fuzzy today due to the smoky air. And yes, that would be a great description for salmon.

Paper has been wrapped up and sent to the printer. I have the rest of the weekend off now to watch the Stampede semi-finals and finals on TV (y):)
 
BethAnne said:
For the most part, I can figure it out...brain is fuzzy today due to the smoky air. And yes, that would be a great description for salmon.

Paper has been wrapped up and sent to the printer. I have the rest of the weekend off now to watch the Stampede semi-finals and finals on TV (y):)
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Nice regarding you paper.

Is it the Albertan taxpayers who end up paying the bill for the Stampede?

The PanAm Games are on here in Toronto, but I have no interest in watching such a circus.
 
There is some provincial money that goes into the Stampede but most of the funds come from private sponsorships.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Is it the Albertan taxpayers who end up paying the bill for the Stampede?
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Doesn't the Stampede make money? There are buildings/grounds that are used for various things year round, but I would think the event itself is net-positive.
 
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ChemGal said:
Doesn't the Stampede make money? There are buildings/grounds that are used for various things year round, but I would think the event itself is net-positive.
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It is...they do still get provincial culture funds, sponsorship funds, raffle funds, etc.
 
It would be interesting to know who makes what from the Pan Am games. Someone somewhere's making a mittful.
 
Redbaron said:
It would be interesting to know who makes what from the Pan Am games. Someone somewhere's making a mittful.
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Perhaps independent vendors will make a mittful Redbaron. The city itself, and perhaps the province, and nation, stand to lose. The biggest losers, of course, are we taxpayers. $2.5 billion dollars so Toronto's elite can enjoy a show. Really sad when there are homeless and starving people here. Enjoy the circus elite - then try and get some sleep tonight.
 
Depends on how much business the Games bring into the city, but historically these kinds of events make money for the businesses but the expected tax revenues rarely meet expectations. Just look at how rare it is for the Olympics, an even bigger and more hyped event to break even, let alone turn a profit. The Calgary Winter Games did (and I think Salt Lake City did, too) but they are the exception rather than the rule. The benefit, if there is one, is the longer term one of elevating the city's image and stature and thereby drawing in more business and tourism but even that's iffy and largely unmeasured as far as I know. That was Beijing's reason for hosting both the Asian Games and the Summer Olympics (and the Winter Games for which they are now bidding): they never intended to make money, just to show off how far China has come in its development.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Come again Mendalla? As far as I know the one and only Olympics that actually made money was Atlanta.
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From the Wiki on the '88 Games:

Mindful of the financial disaster the Montreal Olympics became, OCO'88 parlayed its ability to generate television and sponsorship revenues and government support into what was ultimately a C$170 million surplus.[20] (The claim of a surplus has frequently been challenged as OCO'88 counted only its own revenues and expenses and did not include government funded facilities in its accounting.[78]) The surplus was turned into endowment funds split between Canada Olympic Park ($110 million) and CODA, which was reformed following the Games to manage the Olympic facilities with a trust fund that had subsequently grown to be worth over $200 million by 2013.[20] Consequently, all five of the primary facilities built for the 1988 Olympics remained operational in their original intended purpose 25 years after the Games concluded.[79]
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IOW, a successful event by all measures. Atlanta is likely the only Summer Games to turn a profit, though, given the many boondoggles that have occurred around that event (Montreal, anyone?). Beijing may have, but we'll never know for sure given how that country operates and, as I said, it was never China's goal to turn a profit. It was a PR event for them.

As I said, though, it is a rare thing and no government should go into an Olympic or Pan-am scale event claiming they will profit.
 
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