The Olympic Flame is now in Canada - yay.
vedderfan10
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at about 9:42 this AM, the flame touched down in Victoria, BC from Athens, Greece...yippee.
In case anyone cared about that sort of thing...
In case anyone cared about that sort of thing...
be philanthropic
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2009 - Toronto
2010 - Buffalo
2011 - Toronto 1&2
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
2018 - Fenway 1&2
2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
2023 - Chicago 1&2
2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
I'll be in Tofino watching some surfing instead...
Not keen on the upcoming festivities are we?
The torch was run down the road a few blocks from my house today. I, however, was dodging traffic snarls in order to get to the airport on time to pick up the hubby. I had forgotten all about the run today so did not properly p & p this pick-up. Therefore, I was about twenty minutes late :?
I remember when the games were held in Calgary in '88. It was a blast. I skipped a lot of classes, snuck into a lot of nightclubs (I was underage at the time), and generally made the most of the event without actually going to see any of the Olympic sporting events
I'm sure that the Van games experience will be a blast. It's just the hype leading up to it that gets so nauseating. Make sure you head down to at least one medal ceremony. It's really the people that make the games a success, both hometown and visitor alike.
no not keen. i don't live in vancouver, but get to pay for them.
the reason why i'm not keen is because it is frustrating watching all the cuts but a shitload being spent on 2 weeks of games without 100% guarantee that we will even make a profit. don't get me wrong, i LOVE LOVE LOVE international sports events, which is kind of why it is upsetting i don't really support the olympics. but its really hard to swallow them going 400 million dollars + over budget (and thats just on ONE BUILDING) while cutting 60 million from post secondary education, elementary schools have to decide between employing teachers or heating their schools, after school sports programs are being cut but we can still keep funding for the fucking torch relay?
i know its not "directly" related (so people have told me) but Gordo doesn't put any money into things that are actually going down the shitter but everything into the Olympics, then plans to charge us the HS fucking T to make up for all the health cuts that he's been doing. (ie, we have a shortage of thousands of nurses but can't hire any because the health authorites have had to make up for a 360 million dollar deficit, 12 more surgeries cut per day at Surrey Memorial, mental health and addictions services being cut, the proposal to postpone over 5000 surgeries, reducing the amount of patients a specialist can see because specialists cost more money for the government = longer waiting lines, the list goes on)
if we make money and he puts it back into services that are needed, then i'll say they have done a good job. but if we don't put enough into the services we need (ie, to pay back all the sacrifices we've had to make to important services and make a profit towards those services), or we end up like Montreal or Athens or Sydney?
And, of course, who's to say that Gordo will tell the truth at all about the true costs?
Tell that to the ambulance drivers who are on strike and took 100 years to get my house when my baby was born.
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ambulance drivers make peanuts.
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