What’s The Real Deal?

The Vancouver Teacher’s Association are considering a request to allow the Teaching 2010 Resistance to hold a workshop to educate teachers about the evils of our upcoming Olympic Games. The Olympic Resistance Network has distributed posters for the event wihich depicts a cartoon child dumping an Olympic mascot into a trash can with security cameras […]

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The Olympic Money-Pit

The finger-pointing continues as May Gregor Robertson blames a “Total failure of leadership” for the growing cost overruns of the fabulous $1.16 billion Olympic Village. It seems that there’s concern regarding the city’s ability to recoup its investment when the units are sold so sales of the units have been halted until after the 2010 […]

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Another Sappy Song

Sarah McLachlan’s latest song for the 2010 Olympics is, dare I say, another sappy and forgettable song for the opening ceremonies and any other sappy reference during the sappy event. Do these songs always have to suck? That said, does everything visual and aural about the games have to suck from the logos, uniforms and […]

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