That fire-breathing Sue Ann Levy at the Toronto Sun has set fire to the pleasant and respectable image of the Pan Am Games scheduled for 2015 with revelations of careless spending. She names CEO Ian Troup, salary $477,000 a year (inset) as having thrown an $8561 reception in Mexico for 150 people in the fall of 2011. Some of the other expense account items seem petty given the salaries being paid. Somebody collected for a 91-cent parking ticket. It may or may not be as bad as it seems but the Sun News campaign against the Pan Am Games cuts sharper when it asks — nightly it seems — how many people go near these events. And can the City economy possibly generate the business that might offset the billions of public funds spent on them. Today the Premier and Mayor Ford were separately saying they expected better cost control from the organizers. We will see. Sue Ann Levy Pan Am executives are singed by Toronto Sun
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That fire-breathing Sue Ann Levy at the Toronto Sun has set fire to the pleasant and respectable image of the Pan Am Games scheduled for 2015 with revelations of careless spending. She names CEO Ian Troup, salary $477,000 a year (inset) as having thrown an $8561 reception in Mexico for 150 people in the fall of 2011. Some of the other expense account items seem petty given the salaries being paid. Somebody collected for a 91-cent parking ticket. It may or may not be as bad as it seems but the Sun News campaign against the Pan Am Games cuts sharper when it asks — nightly it seems — how many people go near these events. And can the City economy possibly generate the business that might offset the billions of public funds spent on them. Today the Premier and Mayor Ford were separately saying they expected better cost control from the organizers. We will see. Sue Ann Levy 