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Negative media coverage won’t dampen Canada’s ambitions

Posted by Jonathan Ross

Canada's gold medals might make the rest of the world prone to criticism, but all of the bluster emerging internationally should be ignored entirely.

Typing the search term “Vancouver” into Google these days produces a flood of negative stories which are snowballing far more effectively than the efforts to maintain the white stuff atop a warm and damp Cypress Mountain.

I find it fascinating how the British press are writing a post-mortem on the Games within 2-3 days of the opening.  But then again, in typical Limey tabloid fashion, printing first, and thinking and apologizing later, is once again being employed in skewered coverage designed to set the bar as low as possible for the London 2012 games.

To connect the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili to Canada’s “lust for glory” or to blame the difficulties caused by usually warm temperatures is absolutely ridiculous.

And accordingly, most reading such tripe will be able see through these arguments as a tower of cards, shattered with the most innocuous gust of wind – meaning any voice of reason.

Don’t get me wrong…I have always been weary of VANOC’s operations, their modus operandi, and quite frankly, their decision making in running these Games.  As an example, when the Mayor of Vancouver, one of the biggest Olympic boosters out there, starts to publicly campaign for the organization to free the flame, you know that the powers that be have been couped up for far to long in their Burnaby headquarters.

But our pride, which is showing through like no other time in our history, should not be halted for all the criticism in the world.

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FACT OF THE DAY

Vancouver’s West End is 204 hectares and is home to 44,000 people (as at 2006) and has increased 5.8% in the previous 5 years and 66% moved since the last census.  61% speak English as their mother tongue.  The majority are in the 20-39 year old age group.  59% are one person households, with 8,710 families and an average household inome of $38,000.  There is a total of over 28,000 private households.

Quote OF THE DAY

“We’re really asking people to be respectful of the diversity of our community.  People live down here because of the diversity, they feel safe within diversity, and that’s a really important value for us.” – Brent Granby, West End Resident’s Association

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