Marcus Gee unlimbers Expo 2025 Baloney Detector

by The Bulldog • October 25, 2016

So many Torontonians say they just can’t wrap their minds around how their great City will be greater than it is if it spends unknown billions on a municipal ego trip called Expo 2025. Neither, apparently, can Globe and Mail writer Marcus Gee

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