7:22 p.m. A giant flock of seagulls floats past the skies above our ocean view deck. “It’s like The Birds!” I shout. “Isn’t it freaky?” the gulls float in the balmy wind currents over White Rock, where incumbent Liberal MLA Gordon Hogg is so assured of victory, I’m not even planning to check tonight’s results. But I fear the birds are a sign. A portent of things to come. The Liberals will win a majority. Like the grease-fattened gulls who beg for fish and chips from unsuspecting tourists and visitors along White Rock’s promenade, they don’t deserve it, I think darkly.
Archive for the ‘Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics’ Category
Our Liberal overlords have been returned to power
Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, White Rock B.C., tagged 100 Mile Diet, B.C. election, B.C. election night coverage, B.C. politics, Carole James, CBC TV, CTV, Global TV, Gordon Campbell, Gordon Hogg, Green Party, Jane Sterk, Joy Macphail, Liberal, NDP, Randy Hawes, STV, Surrey, The Palin family, TV recap, voter turnout, White Rock on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The haters are calling it the Owe-Lympics. Here’s why:
Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, tagged 2010 Olympic costs, B.C. election, B.C. Liberals, election day reflections, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Related: Things I hated in 2008 – Women’s ski jump not an Olympic sport
We still haven’t been told how much the 2010 Winter Olympics are going to cost.
Even though there’s been an election campaign underway, the provincial government hasn’t filled us in, yet. We’re waiting for a detailed auditor-general’s report on the subject. Last I [...]
Buddy, can you spare a luge run?
Posted in British Columbia, Exiled in Suburbia, News, politics and current events, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, tagged 2010 Winter Olympics, election day reflections, homelessness in Vancouver on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Keep in mind just over 3,000 athletes are coming to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver next February. By strange coincidence, that’s the same number as Vancouver’s current homeless population.
If you ask me, 3,000 doesn’t sound like a lot when you’re talking about athletes for a “world class event” costing the host country billions in [...]
Women’s ski jump is not an Olympic sport? (Things I hated in 2008)
Posted in British Columbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, tagged B.C Supreme Court, Best and Worst of 2008, sports, Things I liked/hated in 2008, U.S. Women's Ski Jump, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Women's ski jumping on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Women’s ski jump isn’t an Olympic sport, so forget about cheering the gals on in 2010.
But wait! I (and every other Canadian taxpayer) helped pay for the damn ski jump venue at Whistler. Who says they can’t jump? The International Olympic Committee, that’s who. Apparently, ski jumping is the only sport at the winter Olympics that [...]



