This World Cup soccer ball is hitting Canadian fans right in their pocketbook.
Canadian taxpayers have already paid $380 million out of their pockets for these World Cup soccer games, and now there’s a proposal to charge kids $10 to join the excitement from under the Gardiner Expressway.
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— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 15, 2026
A beautiful game ruined by grifters.
What was once billed as a free World Cup celebration in Toronto could now cost fans anywhere from $10 to $300 to attend.
The FIFA Fan Festival, scheduled from June 11 to July 19, 2026 at Fort York and The Bentway, was initially promoted as a free event which would feature live match broadcasts, cultural performances and food vendors.
Why Montreal isn’t hosting the World Cup — and FIFA’s rigid rules for Toronto, Vancouver
The 13 FIFA World Cup matches that will take place on Canadian soil are expected to cost at least $1 billion in taxpayer money, according to Radio-Canada’s investigative program Enquête.
Through an access-to-information request, it obtained thousands of documents related to the international competition, which will be played in various cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Montreal withdrew its candidacy in July 2021.
Organizers of the coming FIFA World Cup have begun cancelling thousands of their hotel-room bookings in Toronto, Vancouver and other host cities across North America, a move industry observers say is not uncommon during large events.
The British Columbia Hotel Association said FIFA organizers have cancelled between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of their booked hotel rooms in Vancouver, accounting for roughly 15,000 hotel-room nights during the tournament period between June 11 and July 19. Those freed-up rooms can now be booked by regular travellers, the association said.
CALGARY – The sun hangs low in the southern sky on a frigid Thursday in January, shining through the cloud cover, visible just above the peak of the big ski hill at WinSport Canada Olympic Park.
School-age kids on ski day field trips troop toward the lifts that will shuttle them up the slope. By 10 a.m. the big hill is buzzing with activity, but the park, which attracts roughly 1.2 million visitors a year, will be even busier tonight, when kids get out of school and adults finish work.
Same goes for the World Cup which Toronto slipped past voters when they weren’t looking.
Hosting six World Cup soccer games in Toronto is already $350 million over budget.
Given those kinds of overruns, city hall should look for savings. Instead, municipal bureaucrats blew big money on soccer-themed sex supplies.
If anyone was still under the misapprehension that Canada is an equal partner in the upcoming World Cup, FIFA disabused them of that notion shortly after noon on Saturday.
Friday’s draw determined who would play whom, and when. But for the first time, it did not decide where.
That was left to an opaque process of FIFA’s own. They took 24 hours to think about it, and then they shafted Canada. It was a gentle shafting, but a shafting nonetheless.
Someone will make money off the tax payers footing the bill for this scam.
Immigration difficulties, mass deportation raids and climate issues have plagued the United States, the biggest of the three World Cup host countries, for most of 2025. With the first phase of ticket sales leaving fans astounded by the record-high prices, it raises the question: how much will fans really be able to enjoy the 2026 World Cup?
A disaster for fans? Maybe. But the “organizers” will suffer no financial loss, the tax payer will pick up the tab.
Meanwhile, most residents in B.C. and Ontario can’t afford the $2,500 ticket
You’d better be prepared to pony up when FIFA comes to Vancouver and Toronto next summer for the World Cup, because it’s leaving taxpayers with a massive bill.
FIFA is bringing the 2026 Men’s World Cup to Canada, the United States and Mexico.
The World Cup is a dream grift that robs from the poor to give to the rich.
World Cup soccer is just a year away from descending on Vancouver. And while some are thrilled about international football stars coming to their backyard, others are concerned about the potential negative effects of hosting one of the biggest sporting tournaments in the world.
“There’s a concern that the city is really not seeing this as an opportunity to bring the community in … but an opportunity to shut the community out in order to invite particular kinds of visitors to the expectations of FIFA,” Meg Holden, an urbanist at Simon Fraser University, told The Current guest host Catherine Cullen.
OTTAWA – With less than a year to go until the 2026 World Cup, political tensions and U.S. policy threaten to pose problems as Canada, the United States and Mexico prepare to co-host the tournament.
Next year’s FIFA World Cup will be the biggest ever, with the three countries hosting a record 48 teams. Between June 11 and July 19, they will play 104 matches, most of them in the U.S.
The World Cup will do what it does best, leave tax payers holding the bag.
Ontario taxpayers don’t think hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2026 is worth the cost.
That’s according to new polling from Leger, commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
With a price tag of $380 million to host just six international soccer games, who can blame Ontario taxpayers for having cold feet?
The Olympics, the World Cup, hell if you’re going to fleece taxpayers for personal enrichment why not just build a “High Speed Rail Line” no one asked for.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will vote against the Liberals’ temporary GST cut in a vote expected Thursday.
Poilievre said the Liberal proposal is a political stunt and his party can’t support it.
“This isn’t a tax cut. This is an inflationary two-month temporary tax trick that will drive up the cost of living,” he said.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are unlikely to hold onto the Greater Vancouver riding of Cloverdale-Langley City in the Dec. 16 by-election. The government is deeply unpopular, and it lost much safer seats in Toronto and Montreal in by-elections earlier this year.
But more is going on than simply voter resentment of a government that’s long in the tooth. The Liberal Party confronts a political phenomenon that emerged more than a decade ago and that has returned with a vengeance, threatening not only the Prime Minister’s electoral fortunes, but the future of the party itself.
The so-called Laurentian Elite gave us Trudeau, mass immigration and an Islamist 5th Column. What could be worse? What’s to miss?
…Cheap holidays, over-priced housing, educations that no longer buy security…
…[The middle classes] are the new proletariat, like factory workers a hundred years ago…
…Anyone earning less than £300,000 a year scarcely counts. You’re just a prole in a three-button suit…”
These lines from J.G. Ballard’s 2003 novel Millennium People were thought-provoking, yet not wholly convincing 21 years ago. They have, however, become more and more plausible with the passing of time. In a development whose causes and significance have been obscured by the reign of identity politics, the middle classes have been struggling to resist downward mobility and proletarianisation. It’s felt especially by the young as graduates have found themselves saddled with increasingly oppressive debt burdens while education and housing costs are soaring. Meanwhile, offshoring and automation have meant that middle-income jobs have become scarcer — resulting in something referred to online as “the overproduction of elites”. It’s a trend in which, according to a 2019 OECD report, “the middle class looks increasingly like a boat in rocky waters”.
