TORONTO — The new mayor is excited about his city’s big moment in the spotlight, but hardly anyone else seems to be.
After six years of preparation, construction, marketing campaigns, controversies and snags, the Pan-American Games officially open here on Friday, and some preliminary competition rounds are already in progress. But most Torontonians seem to be greeting the event with a shrug, and Mayor John Tory is so exasperated that he has taken to lecturing them about their attitude.
“I think the only sport that we’re not playing in the Pan Am Games is sort of moaning and groaning,” Mr.