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The Pan Am Games’ porcupine mascot wasn’t cheap

By Steve Kupferman
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$383,045

—The amount of taxpayer money spent designing and promoting Pachi the porcupine, the official mascot of Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games, according to an analysis by the Globe. The biggest single mascot-related expense has been the $135,550 spent, to date, on performers, including the people who wear the giant Pachi costume during public appearances.

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