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A petition to stop Kanye West playing the Pan American Games closing ceremony has reached 50,000 signatures.
The event will take place in Toronto on July 26. The Pan Am games happens every four years and represents competition between the Americas in a variety of summer sports.
The bill to bar Yeezy from the ceremony reads: "The Toronto Pan Am games have proven to be very important for Torontonians this year and have triggered a unified sense of pride in our city." It continues: "It would only be just to ask a proud Torontonian (or even a Canadian for that matter) in the music industry to perform, such as Drake, Walk Off The Earth, Feist, Metric, Shania Twain, deadmau5, Crystal Castles, Zeds Dead, The Weeknd, Peaches, K'naan, and many many more!"
"The options for Toronto artists are far from limited and choosing someone like Kanye West raises several concerns among the people. Why was a local artist or group not chosen and supported, just as our local athletes are throughout the games?"
"Toronto Pan Am Games organizing committee please reconsider your decision as we will NOT be attending Kanye West's show."
You can view the entire petition here.
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A very similar petition happened back in March that protested the Chicago rapper appearing at Glastonbury.
