One Hot Premier and a Charismatic Canadian Flag Bearer Named Clara Hughes

The media briefing area was jammed with hordes of media people. I could feel the heat rising from too many bodies in a too small place. Add  the television camera lighting and the story was getting hotter by the minute. At least the reporters were. As I walked in I saw the coach of the [...]

Weather Report for 2010 Olympics

Well it is actually looking like the weather gods may bless the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games after all. If you look up at the North Shore mountains where some of the Games are going to take place, it is pretty grim…well actually, pretty green. Last week’s pineapple express weather system brought torrential rains from sea [...]

Olympic screw over for BC

Saw on the news last night that a group of people are outraged because they have been evicted from their rental house, ostensibly because the landlord needs the house for her immediate family’s use. The evicted renters did a little Google work and found that in fact, their former home is up for rent at Olympic-inflated [...]

Vancouver 2010 Olympics as an elephant

We heard someone describe the Vancouver 2010 Olympic experience in an amusing way; the Olympics is like an elephant walking through your community. At first it is amusing and neat to look at this elephant. Then you see that it has eaten all the green foliage off the trees in your community, it has trampled [...]

BC Liberals continue going for the taxpayers’ gold

In an effort to continue their quest for the gold, the gold of the BC taxpayer that is, the BC Liberals have purchased box suites at GM Place and the Pacific Coliseum for the use of MLAs and cabinet ministers during the 29010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The cost of these tickets is estimated [...]

VANOC employees retention pay

Perhaps the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee can be forgiven for committing to pay $30 million in “retention pay” to their staff. The Canadian government has been promoting this bringing home the gold sort of deal for quite some time and VANOC probably wanted to guarantee that at least some gold was brought home. Consider that [...]