Vancouver’s Olympics are a little more than 1 year away, and they are already a financial disaster. Well done VANOC. Is this why you don’t want bloggers covering the Olympics?
For ongoing coverage of Olympic sized boondoggles, keep your browser tab pointed to The Gazeetter. Taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $0.9 Billion in condo developments.
VANOC endeared themselves to me and other bloggers when they replied with a rude form letter to questions from the blogosphere and Canadian community. Then they refused to stand up for Canadian hockey, in an apparent an effort to lose millions of dollars.
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Lilian Nattel | 12-Jan-09 at 9:46 am | Permalink
That’s why I was glad that Toronto didn’t win the bid for the 2008 olympics.
saskboy | 12-Jan-09 at 10:05 am | Permalink
It’s a bit like that Sliders episode where they are in the world where everyone gets money from ATMs, and each time you take a dollar out, you’re entered into the “lottery”. One of them figures that sounds good, so he takes out $1M, and wins. The “lottery” he won was euthanization.
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RossK | 12-Jan-09 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
Thanks for pointing folks towards my place on this issue Saskboy.
Another great site with, perhaps, a less anti-Spec-U-Vestor POV, than mine is Frances Bula’s Place.
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Raphael Alexander | 12-Jan-09 at 8:34 pm | Permalink
Fear not Saskboy. Vancouver will be paying for this mistake for decades to come. VANOC and everyone associated with it will be reviled and despised.