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   Thursday, August 15, 2002

OK, I LIED...

I am posting more about World Youth Day, specifically the astonishing $30-million deficit for the organizers, despite the City of Toronto ponying up massive subsidies right at the start. Most of the shortfall, according to Canoe.ca, "came from a lack of registration payments. Organizers had expected 300,000 pilgrims to pay $240 each to register for the event, but they only received about 187,000 registrations." Not to mention the fact that crowd estimates hit the half-million mark. Skipping out on church payments doesn't seem like the Christian thing to do, does it?

The worst part is that there's talk underway to have citizens in Toronto or even Canada in general shell out even more in an attempt to match the necessary funds. A charity drive or a general appeal to Catholics is one thing but I humbly suggest that there's no damn way the WYD bunch should get another penny out of the government -- municipal, provincial or federal.

Perhaps now's a good time to let the Pope know that many of those gold chalices lying around Vatican City would fetch a pretty penny at Sotheby's. Maybe there'd even be some money left over to feed the poor or something. Don't say I didn't try to help.

Labels: Canada, religion, Trawna