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Why would Vancouver want or need to conduct more invasive constant taping of its citizens than Washington, DC? I don't have a problem with cameras that can be turned on for special events for security, but I don't happen to think citizens need to be recorded at all times of the day from random vantage points in the public realm. People are constantly recorded on private videos anyhow - building entrances, in stores, etc, etc. Do they need to be recorded crossing Robson Street as well? I don't think so, and I doubt that makes me some kind of wacky radical ;). |
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When you expect "Internationally Renowned" artists you don't think of *any* of those. The only person who comes close is Nelly Furtado, in that people in USA know vaguely who she is, and I despise her. :sly: Weren't we all just so silly talking about how Bon Jovi is almost a sure thing :P Nuh-uh, you get Hedley and washed up Newfies instead! |
If you're not doing anything illegal, what do you really have to fear from a video camera?
I've never understood the arguments against them. If in fact our government or the police were shown to be using them for some nefarious purpose, then fine. Nevertheless, we don't live in such a society, so all of the boogyman fear-mongering seems a bit silly. |
I can't even fathom how the rather innocuous statement I made earlier can be considered "fear-mongering." I stated my opinion. I think citizens should have a reasonable expectation that there every moment isn't being monitored simply because it's possible to do so. We live in a society in which privacy is given up constantly, often voluntarily. We don't need to institutionalize frivolous means by which a reasonable expectation of privacy is frittered away.
It sounds like they're putting in a system in which surveillance can be turned on and off as needed, during public events in which there may be heightened security concern. That sounds reasonable. I haven't read anywhere, including that article, in which anyone says they will be removing the actual infrastructure. It simply won't be turned on and monitored after the Games. I have no doubt that, should another major event require additional security, they'll re-engage it. I also suspect the police don't see any benefit to studying tapes of Robson on any lazy Tuesday either. I simply believe the burden should be on the government to show why an intrusion into the public's reasonable expectation of privacy is necessary rather than for citizens to have to prove after-the-fact that security measures are being abused. It would not be the first time in history systems are abused. Our society is freer because citizens demand it be so. I think my ability to walk down a public street without excessive monitoring is as essential as someone else's desire to possess a gun if they so choose. I don't particularly want a gun, and I'm not doing anything illegal when I walk around town. But both are examples of living in a free society. That's not fear-mongering. It's my opinion. |
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And regarding the not doing anything illegal part. You can take anyone and watch them for one day and likely find something to arrest them for. Why do you wear clothes when you go out if you have nothing to hide? You could be hiding a knife or a gun. |
I support CCTV. Although I think that under ordinary circumstances they should use them 'after the fact' only.
I see no difference between a police officer on the street or one looking at a CCTV monitor of the same street. I too, am lost on this notion of privacy on a public street. When you do something embarrassing on the street, you aren't protected from any humiliation you might feel, why is this different? Because this is the police?? |
I don't have an issue with cctv, but with guidelines. No need to have anyone watching it, if it is only used after an incident I'd have no issue.
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Freedom is the ability to do what you want, right or wrong. Simply put installing cctv cameras reduces everyone's freedom, no ifs and or buts about it. However absolute freedom also doesnt work, that would mean no courts, no police, no government, no laws, no rules, etc. We have to draw a balance where we reach a maximum level of freedom and order/stability. My opinion is there is no need for cctvs, sure they create order, help solve crimes, but I dont see how thats worth the price of the freedom they take away. To convince me you would have to show me a serious problme right now that we cant live with that they would solve, you cant do that though because no problem exists.
If you ignore the importance of freedom and install them then whats next, random searches of people, computer chips installed in all people with gps capability, genetic manipulation of people, etc. Many former communist states had more freedom then we have here now, I just dont see any reason to loose any more, we have plenty of order and stability and our society works. Infact i would be more fore the removal of probably 50% of our bi-laws and removal of several laws to make life not so claustrophobic and a bit more free in our country/province/city. |
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Not sure if this has been posted or not.
Sega's new Vancouver 2010 video game. It looks pretty sick. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/uk...ver-2010/59629 |
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Samsung opens its wallet for Games
A strong rebound this year from a devastating global recession will ensure Samsung Electronics spends more money on the Vancouver 2010 Olympics than any other Winter Games in its sponsorship history. “2009 has been a very strong year — an amazing performance that even we didn’t expect,” Samsung vice-president Gyehyun Kwon said in an interview. “That means there will be no cutbacks in our activities and marketing.” Samsung posted a $3.8-billion third-quarter profit this year on revenues of $32.6 billion. The Korean-based consumer electronics giant is a huge sports sponsor, owning several Korean sports teams and sponsoring English football club Chelsea in a five-year deal worth an estimated $90 million. Kwon, who heads Samsung’s worldwide sports marketing, can’t divulge exactly how much money it will spend on the 2010 Games but stressed it will be significant. “Our investment in the Vancouver Olympic Games is our largest ever Winter Games investment — more than Salt Lake City and Torino, absolutely,” Kwon said. Samsung’s global Olympic sponsorship began with the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, and will continue at least through to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. As the official supplier of wireless communications equipment, it will provide about 9,200 mobile phones to the Vancouver Olympic family, including Games officials and athletes. It is negotiating to wrap a downtown Vancouver building with Samsung Olympic signage, has big plans to showcase its brand on outdoor advertising throughout the region and will build a pavilion at David Lam Park it expects will attract more than 600,000 visitors as part of Vancouver’s LiveCity Yaletown celebration site. The two-storey, 7,500-square-foot pavilion — to be called Olympic Rendezvous at Samsung [OR@S] — will showcase Samsung technology, provide live entertainment and offer lounge space for athletes and their families. For the first time ever, owners of select Samsung mobile phones, with Windows operating systems, can download an application to use the company’s Wireless Olympic Works [WOW] that will provide real-time 2010 Games information and updates. full article: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/S...080/story.html |
lol, I love the fact they probably spent a ton of money coming up with something "hip" like calling it OR@S, and WOW. Sigh.
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We Are Stardust is one of more than 40 digital art installations announced today as part of CODE Live. The landmark 18-day digital arts event, held in February as part of the larger Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad festival, will feature free visual art exhibitions by top Canadian and international cutting-edge artists, including those announced today, as well as night-time ticketed performances by such outstanding musicians as scratch video phenom Mike Relm, British duo Addictive TV, Kid Koala, Chromeo, and the Hard Rubber Orchestra’s Drum & Light Festival.
CODE Live starts on February 4, 2010 in three main locations in Vancouver known for fostering creativity and opening minds. They are: the Great Northern Way Campus (577 Great Northern Way), Emily Carr University(1399 Johnston St.) and the downtown central location of the Vancouver Public Library (350 West Georgia St.). Individual installations will also be located throughout the city and at the Surrey Art Gallery. At the Great Northern Way Campus, visitors are welcomed into the space by reed-like LED lights in a Dutch project called Dune 4.0 by Studio Roosegaarde. The reeds glow brighter and bend towards people as they walk past into the gallery like a field of wheat waving in the wind. Once inside the audience will experience everything from the vastness of space in We Are Stardust by George Legrady to a panoramic worldwide journey only they control in Vested by Don Ritter. At Emily Carr University, the audience can try out electronic garments that respond to touch or act unpredictably in the group show Electromode, or take a turn around Granville Island to discover how they are being observed by the installations created for CODE.lab by Simon Levin, Jer Thorpe and Emily Carr students. Adventurous audiences can also venture into a miniature theatre for the Canadian international award-winning piece The Paradise Institute by Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. As viewers watch a short film they will unexpectedly encounter a twist on the real and surreal created by the artists and complementary soundtracks. The main floor atrium and lower floor moat at the Vancouver Public Library are a perfect setting for artworks that focus on culture, movement and community. Seen by David Rokeby will record the movement of passersby and feed them onto adjacent screens in a series of overlays that reveal unexpected patterns. Visitors will also find Room to Make your Peace, a participatory art project where visitors can collaborate with online contributors, reflecting on what it takes to make peace as part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Truce initiative. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news |
some of those sound cool
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Vancouver looking to hire more ‘binners’ during the Games
VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver plans to spend $50,000 to hire extra binners to clean up the downtown core during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Twenty-two paid binners will earn $10 an hour retrieving recyclable beverage containers from 250 temporary recycling bins throughout the city. Downtown Eastside-based non-profit organization United We Can will hire the binners to work four-hour shifts each of the 17 Olympic Games days. The binners will be scheduled in three shifts to provide 12 hours of service a day. Deposit refunds will go back to UWC to pay other workers. The proposed grant awaits city council approval Tuesday, where Councillor Geoff Meggs believes it will be an easy sell. “UWC is truly one of those outstanding Downtown Eastside institutions because it takes what could really be a difficult problem and turns it into a number of positives by producing income and jobs for people while they do all of this recycling,” Meggs said Sunday. “By making this grant, I think it will spread some of the benefits around but also help the city keep the downtown area cleaner. Plus, it’s a modest amount and from planned expenditures.” ... full: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Van...809/story.html |
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^ hopefully this will get VANOC to put back money into the Look of the Games/decorations, much of it was cut earlier this year.
This is incredible news, it appears that we may be back onto surplus territory without any government nor IOC help. |
I'd prefer them to leave a surplus and have it put towards operating the venues post games. The city would certainly appreciate any help it could get and perhaps it might even change a couple peoples mind that the games might not be so bad.
Perhaps we could use the extra money and send Chris Shaw, and Garth Mullin to London so they could fight the good fight there.:haha: |
^ i think at this rate, they could find a few more million for decorations and will still be able to leave a surplus that might be in the tens and tens of millions for the post-Games venue legacy fund.
The decorations budget was severely axed, it was the first to go during the recession. VANOC had planned on doing much more in big decorations than just the lone Olympic rings sitting out in Coal Harbour. |
^Agreed. The Coal Harbour rings are so sad and lonely.
Time to stick some monster rings on the Lions Gate Bridge or Grouse Mountain. Let's show the world that we know how to go big (as opposed to going boutique). |
^ I know for a fact that rings were also planned for Burrard Street Bridge and the Lions Gate (not from the bid videos, but from an article two years ago that quoted VANOC reps that they were looking at those two bridges plus what we now have today at Coal Harbour).
They really took a swipe at decorations, hopefully most of it can still be restored at this point. |
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Officials get ready to make hockey the centerpiece of Olympics
LA Times, HELENE ELLIOTT ON THE NHL From Vancouver, Canada When most hockey fans watch the Vancouver Canucks play at GM Place, they focus on goaltender Roberto Luongo's acrobatics or who's skating alongside Daniel and Henrik Sedin. When Denis Hainault is in the arena, he's scouting places to put people and equipment during the Winter Olympics. Hainault, a former Hockey Canada administrator and coach who guided a young Luc Robitaille, is the director of ice sports for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee. He's also general manager of GM Place, which will be called Canada Hockey Place during the Games. The new name is among many changes that will take place before the Games begin Feb. 12. "We're going to take over the building on Jan. 28, at one minute after midnight. The Canucks are playing on the 27th and immediately after the game the transition will start," Hainault said Monday. "It's just like for a big concert, but this is going to be major and for almost five weeks." The recently renovated Canucks' locker room will house the Canadian men's team. Another locker room will be built for Team USA, six temporary dressing rooms will be set up in trailers, and the media work room will be transformed into a game-day locker room. The team benches will be extended by about six feet to accommodate 23-player rosters and between the penalty boxes a larger space will be built for statisticians and timekeepers. About 2,000 seats will be removed from the 18,810-seat arena to accommodate international broadcasters and writers. Advertisements will be removed from the boards and the ice to comply with Olympic regulations. The ice, though staying at NHL dimensions, will be rebuilt with the help of NHL ice guru Dan Craig. The red and blue lines will stay the same as for NHL games but the trapezoid behind the net will vanish and the crease will be semi-circular to conform to international rules. "There will be so much hockey played on that ice that we want to make sure that we start from scratch and make sure that it's good level," Hainault said. But without any good luck charms beneath center ice. Canadian ice-maker Trent Evans, working at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, planted a Canadian $1 coin -- known as a loonie -- at the center ice dot. It became a legend when the Canadian men's and women's teams won gold. They'll have to win without a lucky loonie this time. Hainault has forbidden his team from hiding a good luck charm at Canada Hockey Place. "We want to play the games as fair as we can for all the teams and that's what we're going to do," he said. Hainault said he and his staff anticipate working 24/7 before the Games to get everything ready, but it's a labor of love. "I'm not taking anything away from any other Olympics or World Cup or world championship before," he said, "but this will be something special, to have every single team with essentially the best players of every country -- unless injuries -- here in the country of the birth of hockey and in a city that is totally hockey crazy. It's going to be the hockey Olympics, and to be part of that for me is absolutely unbelievable." Slap shots The NHL board of governors will meet today and Wednesday in Pebble Beach. On the agenda are reports on player safety, head shots, the Olympics and business and legal matters. The governors also will discuss the NHL's agreement to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to Ice Edge Holdings. That group, made up of Canadian and American businessmen, plans to keep the team in Glendale, Ariz., but wants to play some games in Saskatoon, Canada. That would pave the way to move north if they can't turn things around in Arizona -- and they probably can't. helene.elliott@latimes.com http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-12/51082835.jpg http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...6146457.column |
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Royal Tower Update.
Wonder whether they can apply wraps in the rain? Taken by me today: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6904/pc160140.jpg |
thats big - is it one the east face of the building?
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Bleh, RBC look like shit in the rain.
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i was in the HBC olympic store today for the first time ever it is really cool, so much overpriced crap but some seemed good, the odd piece not made in china at least, it was extremely busy too - mostly the clothing areas, didn't seem like anyone had payment issues but its seems like a potential loss of sales being so strict - oh well
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Vancouver Art Gallery presents renowned group of Leonardo da Vinci Drawings for the first time
Some of the most important drawings of the human body ever created will be presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 6 to May 2, 2010. For the first time in history, the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Manuscript A will be on view in their entirety in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man. Generously loaned from the Royal Collection by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for presentation during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will be free to the public during the 17 days of the Olympic Games as the result of a partnership with the Province of British Columbia. Comprised of a series of 18 sheets created during the winter of 1510, 16 of which have drawings on both sides, this celebrated group of exquisitely rendered compositions represents stunning achievements in both art and science. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O8ACZiyLDA...o-da-vinci.jpg http://www.canadianarchitect.com/iss...id=1000351464# |
already known here but in the news now...
McDonald’s to open three Games outlets Myth: Olympic athletes live on a strict diet of low-fat cuisine and avoid fast food at all costs. Reality: Free McDonald’s food will be a hugely popular option for competitors staying at the Vancouver and Whistler athletes’ villages. “Athletes use our menu in a balanced way,” McDonald’s regional vice-president Rob Chiasson said in an interview. “Our menu offers a wide variety of products to accommodate all nutritional needs.” The worldwide Olympic sponsor will operate three new Olympic restaurants during the 2010 Games — at the two athletes’ villages and the media centre in Vancouver. Media will pay for their burgers but athletes and their support staff won’t. Chiasson said the restaurants will offer the same choices as regular McDonald’s outlets, noting that usually sits well with many athletes. “We have a picture of the Jamaican men’s [4x100] relay team eating lunch in our restaurant in Beijing before running [and winning] their event,” he said. The free-food-for-athletes marketing strategy worked well for the restaurant chain at the Beijing Games, especially when superstar Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt told the media he ate Chicken McNuggets before setting a world record in the 100 metres. Chiasson said that with less than two months to go before the Games begin, McDonald’s will ramp up an Olympic activation budget that will be as big as any used for previous Winter Games. ... http://www.vancouversun.com/health/M...635/story.html |
Wow Leonardo da Vinci AND McDonalds! :D
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Olympic citizen journalists given home in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A media centre for bloggers and cellphone videographers without official press credentials for the 2010 Winter Olympics will be open throughout the Games in the heart of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. W2 Culture and Media House, an updated heritage building across the street from the Woodward's redevelopment project, will provide fully wired editing suites and free wireless connection to the Internet (WiFi) for "citizen journalists" working with online media outlets from around the world as well as anyone else who wants to post video, photos and commentaries on their own homepages or on sites found on YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and MySpace. VANOC, the city's Olympics organizing committee, set up media centres on the Vancouver waterfront for those who have exclusive rights to broadcast live in their own country and for a limited number of additional media outlets. The B.C. government has put together a second media centre at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver for broadcast and print media that could not be accommodated in the official media centre. Both centres require journalists to register and receive appropriate credentials before using the facilities. The social-media centre on West Hastings Street will be for those who cannot go into the Olympics-sanctioned media centres, Irwin Oostindie, executive director of W2 Community Media Arts, said in an interview. Even some athletes with blogs who may not have the appropriate press credentials could use the centre, he said. "We'll pick up people who are unable to access those services but have a story to tell. They'll likely tend to be more prominent bloggers and independent journalists, independent columnists that want a bit more of the real story and are not so embedded with VANOC," Mr. Oostindie said. The centre will promote the "democratization of storytelling" by providing a place for citizen journalists to work, he said. Citizen journalists are members of the public who produce their own content for media reports on events. W2 Culture and Media House will operate in a similar fashion to a hotel business centre, with free space for journalists to come and go as they like or just to park with their laptops. A separate area with computers and editing software will be available for $25 a day, he said. The building can accommodate about 125 people at one time in the open area, where a daily press briefing will be held. Dedicated infrastructure to upload video and blogs will be available at 25 stations. .... http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=22578.html |
Vancouver is ready for its Olympic star turn
By LINDA BERGSTROM The Chicago Tribune Speaking of the Winter Olympics, you might wonder whether Vancouver, which hosts the Games from Feb. 12 to Feb. 28, will experience a same boom in its ski industry that Utah and Squaw Valley, Calif., have seen in years past. That’s another reason why you may want to visit the scenic Canadian city before the Olympics come to town. You will avoid the crowds and also see Vancouver at its finest. Here’s why: The city is spruced up. The first indication is the airport, which has been filled with murals and displays. In the city, construction season has finished, and Olympic banners have been hung. All for visitors. The SkyTrain linking the airport to downtown is up and running. It’s clean, fast (about 25 minutes) and cheap (about $3). There are even roving attendants at the airport stop who will help you get tickets. There is room at the inn. Come February, hotel availability will be nonexistent and/or prohibitively expensive. This fall, rooms at the majestic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver had rates as low as $158 per night for a weekend stay. There’s a lot to see. Stanley Park has great views, totem poles, trees and restaurants. Even the seaplanes landing and cruise boats launching from the Pan Pacific hotel are a draw. You can visit the Olympic venues. Whistler, which will have 28 events, including ski jumping and cross-country races, is a short, scenic train ride away. ... http://www.star-telegram.com/living/...38505.html#tvg |
Olympics’ Molson Canadian Hockey House slashes entry price to $99
BY BRUCE CONSTANTINEAU, VANCOUVER SUN DECEMBER 17, 2009 VANCOUVER — Molson Canadian Hockey House officials have slashed the entry price to the Olympic hockey pavilion from $500 for an all-you-can-eat-and-drink, all-day pass to $99 for a "Fan Zone" pass that lets you stay for half a day. "We've always had this [price point] as part of our plan," VisionCo. president Jordan Bitove said in an interview. "There's a corporate market looking for an all-inclusive solution for their hospitality needs but we always planned to unveil a more affordable fan zone pass." He said a "limited" number of half-day passes will be offered for $99 but did not say how many. The passes allow access to entertainment and food but only include two drinks. A beer is expected to cost $7. VisionCo. is a partner with Hockey Canada and the International Ice Hockey Federation in the $15-million venue that will operate on the northeast shore of False Creek during the 2010 Games. The $500-a-day price point raised a lot of eyebrows when it was announced in October but Bitove said at the time it was cheap when compared with events like the Super Bowl, Formula One and Ryder Cup. He wouldn't reveal precise sales numbers so far but said they are "exactly on target" and noted corporate customers have already bought 24 of 27 $68,000 packages that include all-day access for eight people for all 17 days of the Games. http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2...598/story.html |
Group blocks Yonge Street to stop Olympic torch
680News staff Dec 17, 2009 19:40:19 PM Several hundred protesters have blocked Yonge Street south of Wellesley Street in an effort to oppose the Olympic games. The group organizing the demonstration has called their actions the "Toronto Rally to Oppose the Torch." According to the group's website, their message is "No Olympics on stolen Native land!" and they say, "The Olympics Torch is about colonial theft of indigenous land; corporate profit grabbing; ecological destruction, militarization and migrant exploitation." Police are on scene to control the crowd. The group has blocked the Olympic torch route twice since its journey to Vancouver came to Canada. To avoid the protest, organizers were forced to put the torch into a van and drive the flame along the route to its next stop, the Hospital for Sick Children. |
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^ totally agree. these protestors just want to cause shit. there is no "stolen land".
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The omega store in Hotel Van is pretty impressive. I'm not allowed back in there without my wife though.
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I'm actually thinking the Four Nations sponsored pavilion may actually end up being one of the more impressive ones. I had read about it last week and thought it sounded really cool.
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$6-million aboriginal pavilion highlights Olympic partnership The Globe and Mail By Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail http://www.ctvolympics.ca/mm/photo/v.../21804_m15.jpg No more dime-store Indians. The assertive message from native leaders echoed clearly through the frosty air Monday as they provided an advance look at one of the 2010 Winter Games' signature buildings, a $6-million aboriginal pavilion in the heart of downtown Vancouver. "We are here. We are, in fact, living. We are part of the world," said Chief Billy Williams of the Squamish Nation, one of the Four Host First Nations on whose traditional territory the Olympics will take place. Scorning the "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" slogan that has provided fodder for native protesters opposed to the Games, the local chiefs said this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase their culture and reap economic benefits. "We are canoe people," said Chief Justin George of the coastal Tsleil-Waututh band, 39-year old grandson of the late chief Dan George. "This is all about paddling together, with one heart, one mind, one spirit. "The Olympic Games is a huge, huge, potlatch. We are putting our differences aside for the greater good. It's our time to show our capabilities and who we are." The pavilion, just a stone's throw from the Olympic hockey and opening ceremony venues, is part of the extensive, unprecedented partnership between an indigenous people and the Olympics that is at the forefront of the 2010 event. Even more than the Games' shiny new venues and infrastructures, it may be the most significant and long-lasting legacy of the 2010 Winter Olympics, according to chiefs and non-native officials alike. "Not only was it the right thing to do," said VANOC head John Furlong, a nifty, aboriginal Olympic tuque perched on his head, "but our aboriginal partnership will be a major differentiator between these Games and other Games. It will fully enrich the Olympics." The pavilion, to be topped by a spectacular, 20-metre high inflatable globe, will also highlight Inuit, Métis and other native cultures from across the country. As well, native groups will be featured prominently during the opening and closing ceremonies. Native art is to be featured at each Olympic venue and the Four Host First Nations have received millions of dollars in cash and land, plus a spectacular cultural centre in Whistler. "After the Olympics, people will look at indigenous people differently. I guarantee that," Tewanee Joseph, CEO of the FHFN, told the audience. Mr. Joseph recently lashed out at self-styled native "warriors" opposed to the Games, accusing them of wanting natives to "remain forever the dime-store Indian, the lone figure at the end of a gravel road, trapped in the isolation of an inner-city nightmare." Chief Williams said those advocating "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" are misguided. "They haven't researched their own history. What lands are they talking about? We know every inch of our traditional territory. No one has to tell us about stolen land. The point is what you create on the land." Musqueam councillor Wade Grant, 31, said no one should pretend to speak for them about their traditional lands. "That issue is not being pushed aside, but we have embraced the Olympics. We believe they will provide benefits for generations to come, especially for our culture. It would be a disservice to our ancestors not to take advantage of the chance to break that cycle of despair that has kept us back for so many years." http://www.ctvolympics.ca/about-vanc...ic+partnership |
NBC Universal To Take Major Loss On Winter Olympics
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As the Olympics continue to approach, you can expect the announcement of more and more pop-up shops and bars in Vancouver. Here's the latest: the Irish House. An initiative by Doolin's Irish Pub (and located right next door), the Irish House will not only be an Irish-themed nightspot, but it will also be the official Irish national pavilion for the Olympic Games. That means, unlike many "Irish pubs" in the city, there will actually be quite a few Irish people there!
Located in a 9000 square foot, 750 capacity tent structure, the Irish House will contain a VIP area, some pub-style seating, a dance floor, and a non-licensed area for booth exhibits styled to resemble a Dublin street scene. From noon to 7 the building will be accessible to all ages but after 7pm it will transform into a 19+ nightspot complete with DJs, cover bands, special events, and plenty o' booze. Just one of the benefits of hosting the Olympics. – R.T. The Irish House will run from February 11 to February 28 http://www.martiniboys.com/Vancouver...ish-House.html |
^ Sounds great. So the parking lot beside the Penthouse? I noticed the lot across the street (beside the Spot) has been fenced off as well.
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Haha, just watching Global News, and there is a feature on Coke being "disgusted" at Pepsi for trying to profit off of the games.
And how they think it "pathetic" to try and profit off of it. And let's not forget how disturbing it is that Lululemon is trying to profit with their new "Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 and 2011" clothing line. |
lol i love that lululemon line
its gonna be a zoo trying to corral the non official stuff that will go on during the games i bet a lot of street vendors show up at the last minute as with all other games |
I'm really dreading the onslaught of rental fences.. I hate how they look. :(
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