Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan is suddenly easy to contact now that the $900 million gorilla is... well, it's either caged or jumping from skyscraper to skyscraper. Whatever your perspective, it's a heckuva lot of bananas.
He admitted that the 2010 Winter Olympics security budget remains very much subject to change.
"If you had events happen during the Games that dramatically change the circumstances, you'd see a potential for costs to go up to respond to those events," Van Loan said. "If, on the other hand, things went ahead very smoothly, you could even conceivably see the costs come in under those that are in the plan.
“You will not know the final number until after the Games."
A show of hands. How many of you think it won't be under $1 billion?
VANOC CEO John Furlong presided over one of the organization's most disorganized news conferences. It was delayed almost half-an-hour. Technical difficulties meant journalists on the conference call were unable to hear or be heard.
The day started innocently enough with the opening of the $87.85 million Vancouver Olympic Centre curling complex near Nat Bailey Stadium and the announcement of a campaign to encourage Canadians to donate $20.10 to a Canadian athletes' fund.
With Glowing Hearts is the VANOC slogan. The recession-modified version is With Empty Wallets.
Next on the list of big bucks surprises? The VANOC transportation plan. Remember that? Yeah, the one that was due at the end of 2007. It could come as soon as Feb. 26. Drastic measures were recommended by transport engineer Bunt and Associates to keep the traffic moving from the border to Vancouver International Airport to bridges and the Sea-to-Sky Highway.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Wobbly cops
The World Police and Fire Games begin July 31, 2009 in Vancouver at B.C. Place Stadium.
Darts, golf, shooting, wrist wrestling, hockey, basketball and boxing are just some of the sports on the menu for the 10-day Pemberton to Chilliwack event.
There might be a campaign to add the new sport of .08 Blow.
B.C. media was abuzz with news in the last week of October that three police officers are under suspicion of drinking and driving:
RCMP Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson has a Jan. 15 promise to appear in court. He is under investigation after a motorcyclist died in an Oct. 25 Tsawwassen crash.
New Westminster Police Const. Tomi Hamner has a Dec. 17 promise to appear in court. She is under investigation after an Oct. 16 single-vehicle crash in North Vancouver involving a NWPD vehicle.
RCMP Cpl. Darren Baker goes on trial Feb. 3 in connection with a Dec. 15, 2007 incident.
Hamner and Baker are school liaisons. Robinson was part of the squad that is under investigation for the Taser death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport. He was transferred to the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit -- the RCMP led Olympic security detail.
The Dziekanski incident made global headlines. Why one of the cops from that incident would be shifted to V2010 ISU is a mystery. What kind of message is the RCMP trying to send the rest of the world invited to the Olympic province?
Darts, golf, shooting, wrist wrestling, hockey, basketball and boxing are just some of the sports on the menu for the 10-day Pemberton to Chilliwack event.
There might be a campaign to add the new sport of .08 Blow.
B.C. media was abuzz with news in the last week of October that three police officers are under suspicion of drinking and driving:
RCMP Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson has a Jan. 15 promise to appear in court. He is under investigation after a motorcyclist died in an Oct. 25 Tsawwassen crash.
New Westminster Police Const. Tomi Hamner has a Dec. 17 promise to appear in court. She is under investigation after an Oct. 16 single-vehicle crash in North Vancouver involving a NWPD vehicle.
RCMP Cpl. Darren Baker goes on trial Feb. 3 in connection with a Dec. 15, 2007 incident.
Hamner and Baker are school liaisons. Robinson was part of the squad that is under investigation for the Taser death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport. He was transferred to the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit -- the RCMP led Olympic security detail.
The Dziekanski incident made global headlines. Why one of the cops from that incident would be shifted to V2010 ISU is a mystery. What kind of message is the RCMP trying to send the rest of the world invited to the Olympic province?
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