Posted by admin on Sep 15th, 2009
September 15, 2009, CBC News
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics plans to dispatch 20 teams of observers to ensure protesters and advertisers don’t overshadow the Olympic message. The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics plans to dispatch 20 teams of observers to ensure protesters and advertisers don’t overshadow the Olympic message. But critics also plan to send out some observers of their own to keep an eye on the tactics of the Olympic organizers.
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Posted by admin on Sep 9th, 2009
By Kimberly Shearon, The Province, September 9, 2009
The B.C. government rolled out its Olympic education programs yesterday to less than enthusiastic support from teachers and school boards. The province spent $550,000 during the past three years developing the programs. “We felt it was a very good investment considering the education opportunities that there are with the Olympics this year,” said B.C. Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. But B.C. Teachers Federation president Irene Lanzinger was skeptical.
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Posted by admin on Aug 10th, 2009
The Globe and Mail, Susan Krashinsky, August 10, 2009
When the world descends on Vancouver in six months for the 2010 Winter Olympics, another kind of convergence will quietly be taking place. A cross-Canada security force will gather to keep those crowds under control, and disaster at bay. “It’s the largest security operation, ever, in Canadian history,” said Staff Sergeant Mike Côté of the RCMP unit in charge of security for the Games. The co-ordination of a $900-million security plan is a gigantic nationwide human-resources effort, pulling personnel from coast to coast to keep things safe.
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Posted by admin on Aug 10th, 2009
By Miro Cernetig, Vancouver Sun columnist. August 10, 2009
VANCOUVER — Vancouver’s Olympic organizers informed us a few days ago they want the private sector to hand over 1,500 highly skilled workers to help them run the 2010 Winter Games. As you might have guessed, the chances of big business lending the Olympics so many employees, whose salaries would all be paid by their companies, wouldn’t be good in the best of times. In a recession, it’s about as likely to happen as China’s hockey team winning the gold medal in 2010.
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Posted by admin on Jul 21st, 2009
By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun, July 21, 2009
In the flush of bidding for and winning the right to host the Olympics, nobody talked about how staging them might mean limiting civil liberties. It’s only now, with seven months until the 2010 Winter Games begin, that organizers and compliant politicians are revealing plans to make it more difficult to exercise our fundamental constitutional rights to free speech, peaceful assembly and free expression. For months now, police have been knocking on the doors of known activists and tracking them down in their neighbourhoods to “chat” about their Olympic protest plans. But that’s only part of it.
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