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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
Olympics beginning to affect major construction scheduling in GVRD
The run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics has begun to affect construction planning in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and with TransLink.
TransLink chair Doug McCallum, who is also mayor of Surrey, says that various types of major construction work are going into the planning process for work in the next couple of years because of the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver (RAV) rapid transit line and the 2010 Olympic construction. He estimates the work will create "tens of thousands of jobs and almost $5 billion in economic output."
But, he adds, competition for workers is expected to be intense as 2010 nears. "There's a feeling that there could very well be a shortage of workers," McCallum said. "We need to...try to get ahead of that because with the Olympics there's a lot of projects that have to be built."
New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright agrees. He says that getting projects started "sooner rather than later" will be important because the Winter Olympics are only six years away. He adds that expectations are rising that there will be a shortage of skilled trades needed for all the projects.
"So we need to start ours right now," Wright told reporters. "We want to be first out of the block."
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Province year-end editorial takes opportunity to reject Olympic critics
A year-end editorial in The Province newspaper took a few paragraphs to justify a rarely seen position against those who criticized the 2010 Winter Olympics during 2003.
"The opposition to the 2010 Winter Olympics earlier this year was a case in point," says the editorial, published on Wednesday, December 31. "It was one thing to question the cost and logistics of this multi-million-dollar event. But, to listen to some of its critics, you'd have thought that hosting the games here was akin to inviting aliens from another planet to pillage and plunder.
"The attempts by many of the 'no' folks to kill the Olympic dream brought together a far-from-merry band of professional anti-people. And the fine -- or not so fine -- whine award of the year 2003 must surely go to the No Games 2010 Coalition whose constant carping about the games had the rest of us crying in our beer."
The editorial concludes, "So, let's hope the defeat of these nabobs of negativity (both in a Vancouver civic referendum and during the awarding of the games themselves in Prague)... represents a turning point for the people of B.C. Let's hope it generates more optimism and a more positive attitude towards progress in our promise-filled province."
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Victoria looking for 2006 hockey support as part of 2010 Olympic strategy to gain sports tourism
The SportHost Victoria organization has joined Tourism Victoria in encouraging support by Vancouver Island residents for hosting the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships in British Columbia, saying that it would help 2010 Olympics strategies for the capital city.
If B.C. were successful in winning the bid, events would be held in Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops and Kelowna. Victoria's new arena, scheduled to open in August, will be part of the bid to attract major junior hockey back to Victoria in 2006, and that would, in turn, fit in with strategies to publicize Victoria for sports tourism in the run-up to the 2010 Games.
People in Greater Victoria can help by signing a bid supporter book located at Chevron Stations, White Spot Restaurants, Save-On/Overwaitea stores, Harbour Towers Hotel. There are also a couple of places online: or at .
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Who will be some Canadian athletes to watch for the 2010 Olympics?
It's a great question -- but the answer will depend on a lot of factors as the race is on for those who will be in contention to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler.
Snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, for instance, is a good example of how the vagaries of equipment can swing fortune from one side to the other. Anderson didn't do too well in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but he switched boards this year and won his third overall World Cup title. He hopes that he'll still be in fine form come 2010.
Speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon, of Red Deer, Alberta, might well be a contender.
He won 500-metre sprints in 2003, giving him the World Cup title and the world single distance championship. He now has 49 career World Cup wins, more than any other man in skating history, but he may be a bit long in the tooth when you add six more years.
Others to keep in mind: Downhill skier Melanie Turgeon, curler Randy Ferbey, speed skater Cindy Klassen, skeleton racers Michelle Kelly and Jeff Pain and bobsled pilot Pierre Lueders.
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Comox Valley women's group tackles 2010 Olympic effects on area
The Women's Business Network met this month to talk about the effects of the 2010 Winter Olympics on the Comox Valley, and how the area might benefit. The WBN held a meeting January 8 in Comox to start asking questions such as how the economic impact of trans-border air traffic will affect the economy of the Upper Island?
There are other questions that need work as well: What, for instance, are the chances that international athletes will use Mount Washington for training? Will there be marketing plans and partnerships in place to promote Island tourism during the Olympics?
The meeting included members of the Comox Airport Commission, Mount Washington Alpine Resort as well as from Comox Valley Tourism. In addition, they'll take part in a panel discussion that talked about the plans and developments they're working on. The Winter Olympics are expected to involve more than 16,000 athletes, team officials, sponsors, Olympic Committee members and media representatives. The WBN says the reasons it's talking about it now is because this is the time to develop new ideas and strategic partnerships, to ensure that Valley businesses benefit.
Article Number: 122 * First published on 12/31/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2,234
(6 Years, 2 Months and 12 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2,262
(6 Years, 3 Months and 12 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
Olympics beginning to affect major construction scheduling in GVRD
The run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics has begun to affect construction planning in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and with TransLink.
TransLink chair Doug McCallum, who is also mayor of Surrey, says that various types of major construction work are going into the planning process for work in the next couple of years because of the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver (RAV) rapid transit line and the 2010 Olympic construction. He estimates the work will create "tens of thousands of jobs and almost $5 billion in economic output."
But, he adds, competition for workers is expected to be intense as 2010 nears. "There's a feeling that there could very well be a shortage of workers," McCallum said. "We need to...try to get ahead of that because with the Olympics there's a lot of projects that have to be built."
New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright agrees. He says that getting projects started "sooner rather than later" will be important because the Winter Olympics are only six years away. He adds that expectations are rising that there will be a shortage of skilled trades needed for all the projects.
"So we need to start ours right now," Wright told reporters. "We want to be first out of the block."
===
Province year-end editorial takes opportunity to reject Olympic critics
A year-end editorial in The Province newspaper took a few paragraphs to justify a rarely seen position against those who criticized the 2010 Winter Olympics during 2003.
"The opposition to the 2010 Winter Olympics earlier this year was a case in point," says the editorial, published on Wednesday, December 31. "It was one thing to question the cost and logistics of this multi-million-dollar event. But, to listen to some of its critics, you'd have thought that hosting the games here was akin to inviting aliens from another planet to pillage and plunder.
"The attempts by many of the 'no' folks to kill the Olympic dream brought together a far-from-merry band of professional anti-people. And the fine -- or not so fine -- whine award of the year 2003 must surely go to the No Games 2010 Coalition whose constant carping about the games had the rest of us crying in our beer."
The editorial concludes, "So, let's hope the defeat of these nabobs of negativity (both in a Vancouver civic referendum and during the awarding of the games themselves in Prague)... represents a turning point for the people of B.C. Let's hope it generates more optimism and a more positive attitude towards progress in our promise-filled province."
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Victoria looking for 2006 hockey support as part of 2010 Olympic strategy to gain sports tourism
The SportHost Victoria organization has joined Tourism Victoria in encouraging support by Vancouver Island residents for hosting the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships in British Columbia, saying that it would help 2010 Olympics strategies for the capital city.
If B.C. were successful in winning the bid, events would be held in Vancouver, Victoria, Kamloops and Kelowna. Victoria's new arena, scheduled to open in August, will be part of the bid to attract major junior hockey back to Victoria in 2006, and that would, in turn, fit in with strategies to publicize Victoria for sports tourism in the run-up to the 2010 Games.
People in Greater Victoria can help by signing a bid supporter book located at Chevron Stations, White Spot Restaurants, Save-On/Overwaitea stores, Harbour Towers Hotel. There are also a couple of places online:
===
Who will be some Canadian athletes to watch for the 2010 Olympics?
It's a great question -- but the answer will depend on a lot of factors as the race is on for those who will be in contention to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler.
Snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, for instance, is a good example of how the vagaries of equipment can swing fortune from one side to the other. Anderson didn't do too well in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but he switched boards this year and won his third overall World Cup title. He hopes that he'll still be in fine form come 2010.
Speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon, of Red Deer, Alberta, might well be a contender.
He won 500-metre sprints in 2003, giving him the World Cup title and the world single distance championship. He now has 49 career World Cup wins, more than any other man in skating history, but he may be a bit long in the tooth when you add six more years.
Others to keep in mind: Downhill skier Melanie Turgeon, curler Randy Ferbey, speed skater Cindy Klassen, skeleton racers Michelle Kelly and Jeff Pain and bobsled pilot Pierre Lueders.
===
Comox Valley women's group tackles 2010 Olympic effects on area
The Women's Business Network met this month to talk about the effects of the 2010 Winter Olympics on the Comox Valley, and how the area might benefit. The WBN held a meeting January 8 in Comox to start asking questions such as how the economic impact of trans-border air traffic will affect the economy of the Upper Island?
There are other questions that need work as well: What, for instance, are the chances that international athletes will use Mount Washington for training? Will there be marketing plans and partnerships in place to promote Island tourism during the Olympics?
The meeting included members of the Comox Airport Commission, Mount Washington Alpine Resort as well as from Comox Valley Tourism. In addition, they'll take part in a panel discussion that talked about the plans and developments they're working on. The Winter Olympics are expected to involve more than 16,000 athletes, team officials, sponsors, Olympic Committee members and media representatives. The WBN says the reasons it's talking about it now is because this is the time to develop new ideas and strategic partnerships, to ensure that Valley businesses benefit.
Article Number: 122 * First published on 12/31/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2,234
(6 Years, 2 Months and 12 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2,262
(6 Years, 3 Months and 12 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
