Parapan Am Games organizers are hoping to own the bleachers as well as the podium, offering a special promotion to entice more fans to attend.

Veteran Canadian Paralympians Michelle Stilwell and Benoit Huot added Parapan Am gold to their already glittering medal collections on Tuesday.

Aurelie Rivard won two gold medals on Monday as the host nation earned 14 total swimming medals at the Parapan American Games.

The 19-year-old from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., who was born with an underdeveloped left hand, could win seven medals at the Parapan American Games this week.

Toronto's Mark Ledo has won Canada's first gold medal of the Parapan American Games, finishing first in the H3-5 men's cycling road race.

Jose Luis Campo, the president of the Americas Paralympic Committee, called the ceremony the "starting gun to the most important period in the history of the Paralympic Movement in the Americas."

The Ontario Building Code requires a minimum three per cent of spectator seating to be accessible seating. But the Parapan Am Games failed to capitalize on that, according to one advocate.

Toronto Mayor John Tory wants to wait until after the Parapan Am Games to talk about an Olympic bid. But the general public has already made up their minds.

Events in an around Toronto this weekend include the Taste of the Danforth, a sandcastle festival in Burlington and the start of the Parapan Am Games.

There are a number of road closures in Toronto to take note of this weekend as a result of the Parapan Am Games and the annual Taste of the Danforth food festival.