Morgan:News:2010:Bronze Edition: April 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #978

Here are three more moguls we ran into today:

The deadline for producing the first major business plan by the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) has now been moved past the May 17 provincial election campaign but now might happen during a federal Canadian election campaign. VANOC says it now expects to have completed the business plan by June, two months behind its schedule from last fall. VANOC's business plan includes budgets by division, function and what it calls "work package", which are distinct activities within a function. That budget is to be approved by all of its major stakeholders -- the provincial and federal governments and the International Olympic Committee. June is said by observers to be the earliest that a federal election can be forced onto the Canadian Liberal minority government. Once VANOC's business plan is approved, VANOC will be responsible for providing quarterly updates to it, including forecasts of revenues and expenditures. Any changes of C$5 million or more to the business plan will require the prior written consent of both governments. VANOC has also reset to June, 2006, the date for publishing its first complete budget, since by then it will have the experience of the Torino Winter Olympics, which will be held in February, incorporated into it. The Torino Olympic Organizing Committee will provide a debriefing to VANOC and the IOC across all functional areas at a meeting to be held in Vancouver next spring. And, by December, 2008, VANOC will have prepared its final operational budget. That date is about a year prior to the Games. This will be the comprehensive budget for managing the Games.
Another internal VANOC milestone has slipped. Last February, planners expected to have the organization's major financial accounting components on the new, comprehensive financial-accounting system by the end of the current fiscal year, which is July 31. Now, they say, it appears unlikely they'll have their major components - such a system-wide general ledger, procurement, commitments tracking, budgeting & forecasting, and contract administration -- in place before the end of December. The system is supposed to support all of VANOC's organizational objectives through the execution and into dissolution of the Games operation, which is currently scheduled to occur by June, 2011.
A quick survey: There were 29 major newspaper stories this past week in Canada talking about the 2010 Olympics logo and its launch. Ten of those stories involved negative reaction by two aboriginal representatives about the logo, but which did not contain positive reaction by aboriginal groups to the logo. (VANOC has partnership arrangements with two aboriginal groups, the Lil'wat and Squamish, and has host-partner arrangements with two others, the Musqueam and Tsleil Waututh.) All of the negative stories were variations on a Canadian Press story, which was distributed across the country to most daily newspapers on Monday. Most of the 19 positive newspaper stories were variations on stories run by the Canadian Press, the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province. The Canadian Press is a co-operative news agency owned by its member newspapers. The count does not include radio and TV news stories, which would typically increase the story count each by equivalent numbers (in other words, the newspaper stories would represent about a third of all news stories).

RESOURCES

A feature story we did earlier this year on VANOC's financial planning and organization:

'Financial system requirements for this year reveal more of VANOC's organizational structure'
[Morgan:News:2010:Number:839; Published on Friday, February 18, 2005]

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 29, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #977

ABORIGINALS TO BE PART OF FORCE GUARDING 2010 CONSTRUCTION VENUES;

ESSAY OUTLINES MAIN SOCIAL OBJECTIONS TO 2010 GAMES;

ROCK ON, INUKSHUK

Here are three moguls we ran into today:

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) will be maintaining at least two or three security guards at any given time at its main construction venues of the Whistler Nordic and Sliding Centres, and the guards will be on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week. VANOC also says that the security company it expects to hire by next month to provide the guards from June until December, 2008 -- about a year after the venues are due to be finished -- will also be required to hire aboriginals, although a quota isn't being published, and, if necessary, do a joint-venture deal with an aboriginal company, whenever VANOC chooses for that to happen. Only aboriginals who live in the so-called "Sea-to-Sky" corridor, that is, along the highway that connects Vancouver and Whistler, will be considered for those jobs. Not only that, but guards also be on fire watch during the summer months, from May to September. They'll get a two-day, C$100 special training course for this, which VANOC will provide. There will be at least two guards for day shift, which runs from 7 am to 5 pm, three guards for the afternoon shift from 5 pm to midnight, and three guards for night shift from midnight to 7 am. But VANOC may bolster than number depending on how the work goes, and from project to project. VANOC will provide transportation for the security guards to patrol the areas, as well as as radios for guards to communicate with each other and with other VANOC personnel.
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) continues to enjoy a largely popular image in British Columbia, and little awareness of them in the rest of Canada, although recent national news stories about the launch of the Games's emblem improved the latter aspect a little. But there is an underlying strata of dissatisfaction in some B.C. quarters about the Games and their impending impact, as well as some of the social implications of the policies leading up to them. This viewpoint was summarized with less than the usual stridency this week by a lengthy anonymous posting using the pseudonym The Green Monkey on the Resist.ca website, which offers free web space for such points of view on a wide range of topics. The Green Monkey ends the 1,900 word essay with: "To sum up the top ten reasons to BURN the 2010 Olympics - we mean 'Build Underground Resistance, Not the 2010 Olympics' - here they are:
- The Games don't help athletes.
- They benefit mega-corporations and the very rich.
- Public-private partnerships are screwing the public.
- The Olympics are sexist.
- The Games are all about advertising, consumption, and television
- The officials are corrupt.
- The legacy of the games includes:
  - environmental destruction,
  - pressure on First Nations to give up land,
  - a police state like our worst nightmares,
- And hundreds more people sleeping in doorways because all the shelters are full. In case you needed a reason to get riled up for the next five years, this is our call to start organizing now and Burn the 2010 Olympics." The Green Monkey also broadcasts for an hour weekly on Vancouver's Co-op radio station, CFRO.
From the coffee-break department: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics may have a logo based on what's actually an innaquaq, but popularly known as an inukshuk. Now, thanks to the folks at Canadian Encyclopedia, you can create your own of either, without leaving the comfort of your chair and computer, and especially without lifting all those darn heavy rocks. Just click and drag and... hear a satisfying clunk of granite upon granite. The link is below.

RESOURCES

The Green Monkey's essay on the adverse aspects of the 2010 Olympics:
http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/1948/76197

The Canadian Encyclopedia's build-your-own inukshuk:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/images/inukshuk/game.html

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 29, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #976

THREE BC FIRMS SHORTLISTED FOR B.C. HOUSE OLYMPIC CONSTRUCTION IN ITALY;

VANOC HUNTS FOR PROCUREMENT FINANCE MANAGER, SAFETY OFFICERS;

COULD CANADIAN ELECTION AFFECT ATHLETE FUNDING?

Here are three more moguls we ran into today:

Three B.C. firms are hoping to build B.C. House for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy out of provincial materials. Spearhead Timberworks of Nelson, Sitka Log Homes of 100 Mile House and Vancouver-based DGBK Architects are all on the shortlist to construct a 4,000-square-foot, one-of-a-kind structure that will be shipped to a location already chosen by the Torino government at the next Winter Games. The building, an initiative of the B.C. government, will spotlight B.C. and Canadian business as well as tourism and cultural opportunities and be a rendezvous point for the province's Olympic athletes and their families. The project has a total construction and marketing budget of $4 million. The contract should be awarded before the end of April, with building, delivery, installation and shipping preparations to be completed by mid-December.
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) continues senior manager recruitment. It's currently looking for a Finance Manager to primarily focus on procurement activities and at least three years procurement experience, since that section continues to be bolstered, as well as accounting duties. Meanwhile, it's also looking for construction safety officers for the Whistler Nordic Center and the Whistler Sliding Centre. The recruitment is also looking for CSOs to deal with safety and health duties at Cypress Mountain for its snowboarding and freestyle skiing venues. They're the people responsible for overseeing Workers Compensation Board policies integrate with VANOC work requirements on construction job sites, as well as supervise the first-aid trailers, staffing and ambulance facilities. They report to VANOC's Environmental Safety & Health Manager and various construction and project managers.
Toronto Star newspaper columnist Dave Perkins speculates that the shaky minority government of Liberal prime minister Paul Martin could spell funding trouble for Olympic athletes if an snap election is called, as expected, next month for sometime in June. Here's how he puts it: "In less than five years, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics will have come and gone. If Canada is to avoid yet another home-Games embarrassment -- after we were shut out of gold in both Montreal and Calgary -- it is imperative that the feds, whomever they may be, lock in their financial support for our best amateur athletes. These kids are dreadfully underfunded as it is, compared to the rest of the wealthy world, yet Ottawa's increased support for both Sport Canada and the dreamy 2010 Own The Podium program remains dependent on the current federal budget surviving. If it doesn't and the election is forced, Sisyphus will be back at the bottom of the funding hill. The Conservatives clearly are more sport-oriented than the Liberals. Plus, with British Columbia a potentially decisive election hot spot, and the Games going there, the Tories aren't likely to advocate stiffing athletes who will represent the home folks fewer than 1,800 days from now. Regardless of the outcome of the next election, the time lost in breaking in yet another sports minister -- the position is always extremely temporary, another problem -- could be fatal to a program that, while ambitious, may be too late already. The Canadian Olympic Committee is pushing this Own The Podium plan and it's a good initiative, but the money could dry up while we go through the election dance again. With Ottawa on the hook for half of the $110 million cost, any delay could be extremely damaging. The big medal-winning countries, which often spend 10 times more on amateur sport than Canada does, already are eyeing those 2010 medals."

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |VANOC| #975
2010 OLYMPIC MERCHANDISE TO BE AVAILABLE BY JUNE, MORE RETAILERS TO BE AUTHORIZED FOR DISTRIBUTION

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) says the first stage of its official merchandise program is scheduled to begin this summer with HBC, VANOC's official department store and merchandise retail sponsor.

Some -- but not all -- HBC stores in major cities across Canada will begin carrying Vancouver 2010 official merchandise with the logo on it, starting in June. Olympic-themed shops will be located in all HBC stores across Canada beginning this winter. HBC stores include The Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters.

In addition, there will be a separate Vancouver 2010 licensing program to supply retail outlets -- such as souvenir, gift and specialty stores throughout Canada. Retailers approved by VANOC will be able to have official 2010 merchandise available starting next January.

Meanwhile VANOC spokesman Renee Valade-Smith says VANOC is "continuing to take measures to ensure the public is aware about authorized uses of the new emblem and the Olympic brand." One of those measures is the addition of new Olympic-brand protection information on its website, including an Olympic Brand Infringement Report Form. The anonymous tip sheet, designed to let the public alert VANOC to unauthorized use of the logo or its 60 other trademarks and the protection rules, are, she says, "Part of VANOC's increased activities to ensure that consumers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors are aware of the value of the new emblem and the Olympic brand."

Dave Cobb, VANOC's senior vice president of Revenue, Marketing And Communications, said in a letter sent earlier this month to the Canadian manufacturing and retail Community, that, "For the benefit of all Canadians, VANOC must ensure that our new 2010 emblem and the Olympic brand are protected as part of our efforts to stage well-organized and financially successful Winter Games. We know that Canadians want to show their enthusiasm and support for the 2010 Winter Games and our athletes. Purchasing official merchandise contributes to the financial success of the Games and helps provide our athletes with the resources they need to reach the podium in 2010."

VANOC says that business and consumer education, and development of a licensing program are among VANOC's main marketing priorities, and Valade-Smith says "the Organizing Committee will continue to take all necessary steps - including legal measures - to ensure the Vancouver 2010 emblem and Olympic brand are used with appropriate authorization."

RESOURCES

VANOC's trademark surveillance tip sheet is located on this page, which outlines its protection policies:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/Emblem/protection.html

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #974

BELL FIRST WITH NEW LOGO PROMOTION;

CANADA'S KARBON GOES GOLD WITH AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TEAM;

CUTHBERT TO DO OLYMPIC BROADCASTING FOR CTV, TSN

Here are three moguls we ran into today:

Bell Canada was the first off the mark of any major sponsor of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to use the new 2010 Games logo in a promotion, with a campaign of radio and full-colour newspaper ads reaching about three-quarters of a million Canadians a day. The newspaper ad was a half-page island ad in the Vancouver Sun, National Post and the Toronto Star broadsheet newspapers this morning, and a full page in the Vancouver Province tabloid. The ads, worth roughly C$65,000 per day for newspaper space costs alone, focused mostly on promoting the logo itself, but included a coupon that could be redeemed for pins with the logo on it if the coupon was turned into any Bell retail store. Considering the logo was released Saturday night, it meant that the ad would have been conceived and designed over the weekend with approvals Monday for transmission to the newspaper by Tuesday morning, while Bell acquired and distributed sufficient pins for its outlets. The Sun has a distribution on Wednesdays of roughly 180,000, the National Post about 250,000 and the Star, about 460,000. Bell's 2010 logo-promotion program also includes radio commercials that talk about the Olympics, bobsledders and includes two voices and sound effects, that also promote the pins at its Bell World and Bell Mobility stores. They began running in Vancouver markets today.
Karbon Clothing, made by Schure Sports of Concorde, Ontario, near Toronto, and a Canadian clothing competitor to Roots, has signed up with the Australian Olympic Committee to provide Aussie Olympic teams with clothing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. In fact, Karbon will be supplying Aussie team duds for the next eight years, starting with the uniforms they'll be wearing to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, Italy next February. AOC Secretary-General Craig Phillips says, "We have a very young team and we have asked Karbon to design a uniform with a distinctive mountain feel that our young athletes will be comfortable wearing." The Karbon line, launched in 1997, will provide the Olympians with specific wear for the opening ceremony, competition, training and village. Karbon has about 20 years of experience in the sports business. It supplies clothing to 17 national teams in Canada, USA, Britain and Europe as well as Australia.
Veteran Canadian sports broadcaster Chris Cuthbert, 47, who was released from CBC after 21 years in February because of the hockey shutdown and CBC's loss of the Olympic schedule to CTV, has joined competitor CTV and its sports channel, TSN. Rick Brace, CTV president, says Cuthbert's five-year deal starts June 1 and it will see Cuthbert reporting on the Olympics and calling CFL, hockey and other sports through to June 2010, which will be just after the close of the 2010 Winter Games. Cuthbert, a former Sportscaster of the Year, was the main voice of the CFL on CBC and covered figure skating, including the controversial figure skating events involving Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

RESOURCES

Schure Sport's Karbon website:
http://www.karbon.net

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Torino| #973
TOROC PLANNING FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AT ITALIAN OLYMPICS MAY HERALD VANCOUVER PLANS

[To give you a sense of the kinds of decisions the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) will eventually have to make about public transportation in Vancouver and Whistler, here's how Italy is handling the issue. Note, however, that we're sticking to concepts only in this article; the physical, jurisdictional and competitive nature of the environment for the Torino Games is different from that of Vancouver's. -- Editor]

The Organizing Committee for the Torino 2006 Games (TOROC) expects about a million people -- athletes, technicians, volunteers, the media and spectators -- to be travelling between Olympic sites during the Italian Games.

The Italian Games will be held next February, and, with less than a year to go, TOROC has made public its transportation plans, to considerable public discussion and debate, although parts of it became known during various public hearings and government planning processes in the past few months.

TOROC has set up its own transportation department to deal with the issues involved, and it works with local governments and various transportation agencies and private companies to co-ordinate what's needed to deal with that kind of movement. Its transportation plan relies as much as possible on public transport in order to limit traffic, and to avoid creating problems for local residents, who live and work in the areas of the Olympic venues.

The plan imposes limits on the use of private cars for the general population, particularly in the mountain areas during the Games. Residents, workers, owners of second homes and Olympic Games personnel are all to receive special permits -- set up in formal agreements between TOROC, local authorities and, in some cases, local people -- to even get into the area. For visitors to the areas: trains, buses and park-and-ride hubs are to be established.

The so-called "Olympic Family" -- athletes, Olympic VIPs, sponsor representatives, and the media -- is expected will be taken between the main urban areas and the venues by shuttle buses, or through the use of TOROC-controlled fleets of vehicles, which will have dedicated parking areas near the venues in the mountains. For spectators, there will be park-and-ride hubs. From the park-and-ride areas, spectators in Italy will use a dedicated, free shuttle-bus service that goes directly between the hubs, the venues and between the competition sites in the mountains. It will operate 24 hours a day, with buses departing frequently to and from the sites, while the Games are underway.

In Italy, where trains are much more pervasive that British Columbia's single link between Vancouver and Squamish, a similar shuttle service is being set up with extended service during the Games. These services are planned to connect to shuttle-bus services for spectators.

Within the city of Torino, the regular bus and tram lines will have additional vehicles and a shorter delay between vehicle arrivals to transport spectators to the Olympic areas, with more park-and-ride hubs set up around the perimeter of the city to deal with venue spectators coming from the suburbs.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #976

THREE BC FIRMS SHORTLISTED FOR B.C. HOUSE OLYMPIC CONSTRUCTION IN ITALY;

VANOC HUNTS FOR PROCUREMENT FINANCE MANAGER, SAFETY OFFICERS;

COULD CANADIAN ELECTION AFFECT ATHLETE FUNDING?

Here are three more moguls we ran into today:

Three B.C. firms are hoping to build B.C. House for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy out of provincial materials. Spearhead Timberworks of Nelson, Sitka Log Homes of 100 Mile House and Vancouver-based DGBK Architects are all on the shortlist to construct a 4,000-square-foot, one-of-a-kind structure that will be shipped to a location already chosen by the Torino government at the next Winter Games. The building, an initiative of the B.C. government, will spotlight B.C. and Canadian business as well as tourism and cultural opportunities and be a rendezvous point for the province's Olympic athletes and their families. The project has a total construction and marketing budget of $4 million. The contract should be awarded before the end of April, with building, delivery, installation and shipping preparations to be completed by mid-December.
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) continues senior manager recruitment. It's currently looking for a Finance Manager to primarily focus on procurement activities and at least three years procurement experience, since that section continues to be bolstered, as well as accounting duties. Meanwhile, it's also looking for construction safety officers for the Whistler Nordic Center and the Whistler Sliding Centre. The recruitment is also looking for CSOs to deal with safety and health duties at Cypress Mountain for its snowboarding and freestyle skiing venues. They're the people responsible for overseeing Workers Compensation Board policies integrate with VANOC work requirements on construction job sites, as well as supervise the first-aid trailers, staffing and ambulance facilities. They report to VANOC's Environmental Safety & Health Manager and various construction and project managers.
Toronto Star newspaper columnist Dave Perkins speculates that the shaky minority government of Liberal prime minister Paul Martin could spell funding trouble for Olympic athletes if an snap election is called, as expected, next month for sometime in June. Here's how he puts it: "In less than five years, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics will have come and gone. If Canada is to avoid yet another home-Games embarrassment -- after we were shut out of gold in both Montreal and Calgary -- it is imperative that the feds, whomever they may be, lock in their financial support for our best amateur athletes. These kids are dreadfully underfunded as it is, compared to the rest of the wealthy world, yet Ottawa's increased support for both Sport Canada and the dreamy 2010 Own The Podium program remains dependent on the current federal budget surviving. If it doesn't and the election is forced, Sisyphus will be back at the bottom of the funding hill. The Conservatives clearly are more sport-oriented than the Liberals. Plus, with British Columbia a potentially decisive election hot spot, and the Games going there, the Tories aren't likely to advocate stiffing athletes who will represent the home folks fewer than 1,800 days from now. Regardless of the outcome of the next election, the time lost in breaking in yet another sports minister -- the position is always extremely temporary, another problem -- could be fatal to a program that, while ambitious, may be too late already. The Canadian Olympic Committee is pushing this Own The Podium plan and it's a good initiative, but the money could dry up while we go through the election dance again. With Ottawa on the hook for half of the $110 million cost, any delay could be extremely damaging. The big medal-winning countries, which often spend 10 times more on amateur sport than Canada does, already are eyeing those 2010 medals."

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |VANOC| #975
2010 OLYMPIC MERCHANDISE TO BE AVAILABLE BY JUNE, MORE RETAILERS TO BE AUTHORIZED FOR DISTRIBUTION

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) says the first stage of its official merchandise program is scheduled to begin this summer with HBC, VANOC's official department store and merchandise retail sponsor.

Some -- but not all -- HBC stores in major cities across Canada will begin carrying Vancouver 2010 official merchandise with the logo on it, starting in June. Olympic-themed shops will be located in all HBC stores across Canada beginning this winter. HBC stores include The Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters.

In addition, there will be a separate Vancouver 2010 licensing program to supply retail outlets -- such as souvenir, gift and specialty stores throughout Canada. Retailers approved by VANOC will be able to have official 2010 merchandise available starting next January.

Meanwhile VANOC spokesman Renee Valade-Smith says VANOC is "continuing to take measures to ensure the public is aware about authorized uses of the new emblem and the Olympic brand." One of those measures is the addition of new Olympic-brand protection information on its website, including an Olympic Brand Infringement Report Form. The anonymous tip sheet, designed to let the public alert VANOC to unauthorized use of the logo or its 60 other trademarks and the protection rules, are, she says, "Part of VANOC's increased activities to ensure that consumers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors are aware of the value of the new emblem and the Olympic brand."

Dave Cobb, VANOC's senior vice president of Revenue, Marketing And Communications, said in a letter sent earlier this month to the Canadian manufacturing and retail Community, that, "For the benefit of all Canadians, VANOC must ensure that our new 2010 emblem and the Olympic brand are protected as part of our efforts to stage well-organized and financially successful Winter Games. We know that Canadians want to show their enthusiasm and support for the 2010 Winter Games and our athletes. Purchasing official merchandise contributes to the financial success of the Games and helps provide our athletes with the resources they need to reach the podium in 2010."

VANOC says that business and consumer education, and development of a licensing program are among VANOC's main marketing priorities, and Valade-Smith says "the Organizing Committee will continue to take all necessary steps - including legal measures - to ensure the Vancouver 2010 emblem and Olympic brand are used with appropriate authorization."

RESOURCES

VANOC's trademark surveillance tip sheet is located on this page, which outlines its protection policies:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/Emblem/protection.html

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #974

BELL FIRST WITH NEW LOGO PROMOTION;

CANADA'S KARBON GOES GOLD WITH AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TEAM;

CUTHBERT TO DO OLYMPIC BROADCASTING FOR CTV, TSN

Here are three moguls we ran into today:

Bell Canada was the first off the mark of any major sponsor of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to use the new 2010 Games logo in a promotion, with a campaign of radio and full-colour newspaper ads reaching about three-quarters of a million Canadians a day. The newspaper ad was a half-page island ad in the Vancouver Sun, National Post and the Toronto Star broadsheet newspapers this morning, and a full page in the Vancouver Province tabloid. The ads, worth roughly C$65,000 per day for newspaper space costs alone, focused mostly on promoting the logo itself, but included a coupon that could be redeemed for pins with the logo on it if the coupon was turned into any Bell retail store. Considering the logo was released Saturday night, it meant that the ad would have been conceived and designed over the weekend with approvals Monday for transmission to the newspaper by Tuesday morning, while Bell acquired and distributed sufficient pins for its outlets. The Sun has a distribution on Wednesdays of roughly 180,000, the National Post about 250,000 and the Star, about 460,000. Bell's 2010 logo-promotion program also includes radio commercials that talk about the Olympics, bobsledders and includes two voices and sound effects, that also promote the pins at its Bell World and Bell Mobility stores. They began running in Vancouver markets today.
Karbon Clothing, made by Schure Sports of Concorde, Ontario, near Toronto, and a Canadian clothing competitor to Roots, has signed up with the Australian Olympic Committee to provide Aussie Olympic teams with clothing at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. In fact, Karbon will be supplying Aussie team duds for the next eight years, starting with the uniforms they'll be wearing to the 2006 Winter Games in Torino, Italy next February. AOC Secretary-General Craig Phillips says, "We have a very young team and we have asked Karbon to design a uniform with a distinctive mountain feel that our young athletes will be comfortable wearing." The Karbon line, launched in 1997, will provide the Olympians with specific wear for the opening ceremony, competition, training and village. Karbon has about 20 years of experience in the sports business. It supplies clothing to 17 national teams in Canada, USA, Britain and Europe as well as Australia.
Veteran Canadian sports broadcaster Chris Cuthbert, 47, who was released from CBC after 21 years in February because of the hockey shutdown and CBC's loss of the Olympic schedule to CTV, has joined competitor CTV and its sports channel, TSN. Rick Brace, CTV president, says Cuthbert's five-year deal starts June 1 and it will see Cuthbert reporting on the Olympics and calling CFL, hockey and other sports through to June 2010, which will be just after the close of the 2010 Winter Games. Cuthbert, a former Sportscaster of the Year, was the main voice of the CFL on CBC and covered figure skating, including the controversial figure skating events involving Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

RESOURCES

Schure Sport's Karbon website:
http://www.karbon.net

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Torino| #973
TOROC PLANNING FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AT ITALIAN OLYMPICS MAY HERALD VANCOUVER PLANS

[To give you a sense of the kinds of decisions the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) will eventually have to make about public transportation in Vancouver and Whistler, here's how Italy is handling the issue. Note, however, that we're sticking to concepts only in this article; the physical, jurisdictional and competitive nature of the environment for the Torino Games is different from that of Vancouver's. -- Editor]

The Organizing Committee for the Torino 2006 Games (TOROC) expects about a million people -- athletes, technicians, volunteers, the media and spectators -- to be travelling between Olympic sites during the Italian Games.

The Italian Games will be held next February, and, with less than a year to go, TOROC has made public its transportation plans, to considerable public discussion and debate, although parts of it became known during various public hearings and government planning processes in the past few months.

TOROC has set up its own transportation department to deal with the issues involved, and it works with local governments and various transportation agencies and private companies to co-ordinate what's needed to deal with that kind of movement. Its transportation plan relies as much as possible on public transport in order to limit traffic, and to avoid creating problems for local residents, who live and work in the areas of the Olympic venues.

The plan imposes limits on the use of private cars for the general population, particularly in the mountain areas during the Games. Residents, workers, owners of second homes and Olympic Games personnel are all to receive special permits -- set up in formal agreements between TOROC, local authorities and, in some cases, local people -- to even get into the area. For visitors to the areas: trains, buses and park-and-ride hubs are to be established.

The so-called "Olympic Family" -- athletes, Olympic VIPs, sponsor representatives, and the media -- is expected will be taken between the main urban areas and the venues by shuttle buses, or through the use of TOROC-controlled fleets of vehicles, which will have dedicated parking areas near the venues in the mountains. For spectators, there will be park-and-ride hubs. From the park-and-ride areas, spectators in Italy will use a dedicated, free shuttle-bus service that goes directly between the hubs, the venues and between the competition sites in the mountains. It will operate 24 hours a day, with buses departing frequently to and from the sites, while the Games are underway.

In Italy, where trains are much more pervasive that British Columbia's single link between Vancouver and Squamish, a similar shuttle service is being set up with extended service during the Games. These services are planned to connect to shuttle-bus services for spectators.

Within the city of Torino, the regular bus and tram lines will have additional vehicles and a shorter delay between vehicle arrivals to transport spectators to the Olympic areas, with more park-and-ride hubs set up around the perimeter of the city to deal with venue spectators coming from the suburbs.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 27, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #972

2008 OLYMPICS BIDDING TO SPONSOR SPANISH SOCCER TEAM;

2010 LOGO-REACTION STORY HITS NATIONAL PUBLIC AIRWAVES;

LARCH HILLS GRANTED C$113,000

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An intriguing development. Usually, Olympic organizations have to beat potential sponsors off with a stick, but this time the role is reversed. According to British reports, the Chinese government is offering Barcelona's soccer club Barca about £13 million -- about C$30 million -- for five years, with bonuses relative to results, if its team members will wear the 2008 Summer Olympics logo on their shirts. The 2008 Games organization is apparently bidding against Qatar Airlines for the privilege, and the deal is expected to be resolved in the next two or three weeks. Barca has traditionally resisted doing sponsorship deals that involve their shirts. After the Olympics finish, the club would promote the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, say the reports.
From the Perception is Everything department: The 2010 Winter Games made the major national CBC radio evening newscast tonight over the logo-launch story, but not in a good way. Vancouver reporter Pamela Post did a two-minute feature story on the adverse reaction by two aboriginal representatives over the use of a traditional Inuit symbol as the basis for the new logo of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC). Both an Inuit inukshuk builder, Peter Irniq, a former Nunavut commissioner, and Grand Chief Edward John of the First Nations Summit aboriginal organization and Chief Stewart Philip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, she reported, complained about various slights, such as the fact that Nunavut premier Paul Okalik was invited to a VANOC news conference while local aboriginal groups, which formed a large part of the televised celebration show, weren't. Post quoted VANOC Communications vice-president Renee Smith-Valade about the underlying concepts of the logo, but failed to mention any aspect of the considerable amount of spending and work VANOC has been doing -- and continues to do -- with the Squamish, Musqueam and Lil'Wat aboriginal groups over the use of the Callaghan valley. Post also suggested that the Inuit had been having secret meetings with VANOC, and had been offered free tickets not offered to other aboriginal groups. She did not mention that chief Gibby Jacob, a hereditary chief of the Squamish aboriginal band and a member of VANOC's 2010 board of directors, defends the logo, which was a unanimous recommendation of the judges that included Dorothy Grant, a designer and traditional Haida aboriginal artist. Post's parting comment: that VANOC will be spending months doing damage control over the issue.
The Larch Hills Nordic Society of Salmon Arm, in British Columbia's Okanagan area has been given a grant of C$113,000 from the 2010 Olympic Live Sites fund. The money will be used to help it pay for a new tracksetter.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 26, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #971C

COLLIERS LOOKS FOR VANOC HQ OFFICE SPACE;

VANOC OFFERS VEILED LEGAL THREAT TO MEDIA OVER LOGOS;

2010 LEGACIESNOW TO REBRAND

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The Vancouver branch of Colliers International, the company the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) chose to help with its real-estate requirements, has begun the search in earnest for expanded new office space for VANOC's headquarters. It needs responses by May 6. Colliers says VANOC's growth means it will need to be in the new space by the middle of 2007, and that it doesn't particularly want to move after that, because the Committee HQ, which will grow to hold 1,700 personnel by 2009, will be down to a skeleton crew by June of 2010. VANOC is looking for about 75,000 to 80,000 usable square feet (7,000 to 7,500 usable square metres) of space by the middle of 2006, increasing thereafter to 200,000 to 220,000 usable square feet (18,500 to 20,400 usable square metres) by 2009. What kind of space? VANOC needs a flexible, open layout, preferably in conventional office buildings or in "an appropriately serviced non-conventional structure such as a warehouse." VANOC's HQ, which, of course, also hosts the Paralympic Games, must also be either set up for access by the disabled, or be capable of becoming barrier-free fairly easily. It wants to stay fairly close to the action, however, so it is only looking for space within a 12-kilometre radius of the Burrard-Pender intersection in Vancouver's downtown core.
From the ham-fisted department: Several Vancouver-area open-line radio-station hosts have been wishing aloud that they could see some of the 1,599 logos that weren't selected by VANOC, because a strong minority of people are calling them to say they don't like the one selected. Just in case any of the people or organizations that submitted the non-ready-for-primetime VANOC logos felt like talking about what they did, or showing the media their design, VANOC has issued a stern warning reminding them they signed a confidentiality agreement when they entered the contest, and that, like a diamond, it's forever. Just in case that's not clear enough, VANOC's lawyers added another whack of the paddle on the table in the message: "Any participation in, or assistance of, such wrongful conduct by the media also constitutes an infringement of VANOC's exclusive rights and other actionable wrongs against VANOC."
The latest 2010-related organization to undergo rebranding is 2010 LegaciesNow, the five-year old agency set up to support the community outreach aspects of the 2010 Winter Games undertakings by VANOC and the B.C. Government. 2010 LegaciesNow has focused on specific segments of the marketplace, on sport and recreation, arts, volunteerism, literacy and community. It wants a logo and a wordmark that can be adapted to each of those segments. 2010 LegaciesNow also now aims at fostering organizational collaboration and promote long-term legacy thinking. It's also offering the possibility of the winner becoming involved in designing a new look-and-feel for various image documents, such as the 2010 LegaciesNow website, newsletter, letterhead, PowerPoint templates, lapel pins, banners and flags. Like VANOC, an entrance requirement for bidders is to sign a document that turns over all rights in offered proposed brands to 2010 LegaciesNow, and sign a full, now-and-forever confidentiality agreement. Unlike VANOC's logo concept, however, 2010 LegaciesNow is forgoing the possibility of another controversy over ethics within the Canadian graphic-design industry by issuing a standard Invitation to Quote for graphic-design or marketing firms. It will shortlist those responding to the ITQ, offering the short-list firms C$7,500 to come up with three alternative logo and wordmark designs, then choose a finalist from that group who will be contracted to finalize their design. The deadline for responding to the ITQ is end-of-business on Monday, May 2.

RESOURCES

Colliers contact info:
Ray Ahrens ray.ahrens@colliers.com or 604.662.2632)
or David Bowden David.Bowden@colliers.com or 604.662.2643

Colliers International
Suite 1910, Granville Square
200 Granville Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2R6

Lyndsey Morrison, Marketing Manager, 2010 LegaciesNow, is the person answering questions about the rebranding ITQ: lmorrison@2010legaciesnow.com

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 26, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |VANOC| #969
NEW INTERNAL INFORMATION-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO BE FAST, FLEXIBLE, MODULAR AND OPEN-SOURCE

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) has completed the conceptual development of what it expects to be a fast, flexible and user-friendly information-management system it will be using for its own purposes over the next half-dozen years.

And, unlike previous Olympic organizations, it's decided it will use a modular, open-source system it hopes it will be able to pass on to future Olympic organizing committees and related organizations. According to VANOC planners, "By building a completely open-source solution, VANOC owns the source code and is thus able to pass the system on to the IOC [International Olympic Committee] to share with future bid cities and organizing committees."

This system is for VANOC's own internal use, and will eventually be tied in by the French Olympics networking sponsor Atos Origin to the games-performance management system Atos Origin will start setting up in Vancouver next year. VANOC expects its new internal system will be phased into operation by mid-June, once it completes arrangements with a third-party hosting firm.

According to VANOC planners, the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic organizing committees managing the Torino 2006 and Athens 2004 Games all implemented large, enterprise-class information-management systems. But, they says, "These systems took up to two years to fully implement, and were found by most staff to be cumbersome and time-consuming to use." As a result, their information-management systems are (or were, in the case of Athens), "significantly underused."

VANOC investigated both the large-enterprise approach and the small, integrated-module approach for its system, finally deciding to go with an open-source-based, custom-built, modular system. That's because, say planners, it suits VANOC's growth, which is expected to double every year between now and 2009, as well as the organization's fast work-pace and relatively short life-span -- VANOC will be down to a skeleton crew by the summer of 2010 after going into the Games with a staff of about 2,000.

As well, they say, the new system focuses heavily on usability, doesn't overwhelm users with "unnecessary" features, has a more manageable cost given the large number of users, and provides a legacy.

The VANOC design involves a portal, a management system for documents and records, a method of project collaboration, a search engine and a number of applications that can be used by each employee, such as an employee directory, an events calendar, and even a terminology thesaurus. The new systems are being organized by VANOC's own Information Management department, which is part of its Project Management Function.

The new system, which is designed to be rapidly expanded as the employee growth at VANOC swells during the next five years, will replace the relatively small network set up under VANOC's Finance & Administration Division. It is responsible for managing the administrative needs of VANOC, including file and print servers, a single exchange server, the desktop computers the office staff use as well as the telephone system.

The new internal network will connect VANOC's Vancouver headquarters with its Whistler office -- there is a VPN between Vancouver and Whistler and a Citrix system is planned to provide all VANOC staff with secure remote access to their portable computers. will potentially have satellite offices in Montreal/Ottawa. Secure remote access is important to VANOC because much of its staff work from home at night and on the weekends, as well as from hotels when travelling.

In addition, VANOC says there's a possibility it will also eventually set up satellite offices in Montreal, which is the headquarters office of Bell Canada, its telecommunications sponsor, and Canada's national capital of Ottawa.

All three layers of the VANOC information-management system -- a web server, the main database and the groups of applications that it will have associated with it -- have been built using open-source software.

Besides being less expensive, planners say this relatively new class of software was more flexible than commercial software they examined. "The commercial off-the-shelf software packages that were evaluated required too much change to the way people accomplished their work, and did not provide the level of Microsoft Office integration that could be achieved with a custom-built solution."

BACKGROUND

VANOC's new system will be based on a Unix type of operating system "to ensure security, functionality, and reliability." The Java portions will be based on version 1.4, because 1.5 is still too new, but programmers will be expected to code towards 1.5, with Tomcat as the servlet container. The several databases will be PostgreSQL 8.0 and MySQL 4.1.11-standard -- both are required. The HTTP Server will be Apache 1.3.33, with secure-socket layer functions. The collaborative-content management software is the open-source Zope 2.7.5 and Python 2.4. Perl 5.8.6 is also required, with the ability to add modules with CPAN. It will also use PHP 4.3.10, CVS 1.11.19 and the search engine is Lucene's.

VANOC's major internal organization is, at the moment, about 60 distinct functions which include: Accommodations, Communications, Culture & Ceremonies, Finance, Sustainability, Inclusivity, Games Management, Games Workforce, Legal Licensing & Merchandising, Project Management, Sport Technology Services, Ticketing, Transportation and Venues.

The new systems are being organized by VANOC's own Information Management department, which is part of its Project Management Function. The department has five main areas of responsibility.

Information Systems & Processes, which develops and manages the systems and processes VANOC needs for capturing, organizing, and sharing information internally;

VANOC Records, which creates, collects, classifies and stores VANOC documents and memorabilia;

VANOC Library, which also collects, organizes and shares reference material including records and memorabilia from past Olympic organizing committees, as well as handles publications issued by the International Olympic and Paralympic organizations;

VANOC Archives, which create, identify and prepare VANOC's historical records;

The IOC's Transfer of Knowledge portion, which identifies records that can be used by future Olympic organizing committees, and transfers those records to it.

RESOURCES

How VANOC sees the layout of its information-management system:
http://www.morgan-news.com/2010/SupportFiles/2005-04/VANOCimsMap.pdf

A table of how VANOC sees its employee growth between now and 2010, and estimates of document generation by them:
http://www.morgan-news.com/2010/SupportFiles/2005-04/VANOCdocGenEstimates.pdf

How VANOC envisions its remote users will connect with its information-management system:
http://www.morgan-news.com/2010/SupportFiles/2005-04/VANOCremoteSystem.pdf

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 25, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #968
SEVEN NON-SPONSORS DISPLAY LOGOS AT 2010 CEREMONY; OLYMPICS INSPIRE CULTURAL EVENT IN CHILLIWACK AND SHORT SYMPHONY IN VICTORIA

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It wasn't deliberate ambush marketing, but several companies who are not sponsors of the 2010 Winter Olympics managed to have their logos prominently displayed to the 3,000-member crowd at GM Place Saturday night during the 2010 Olympic logo launch program. The companies were firms that had previously arranged to have backlit signs at various public places in GM Place's arena area during events at the facility throughout the year. The locations included key areas above audience exit portals to the concourse, which are clearly visible from all seat locations. The firms included Telus -- a direct competitor to 2010 Games sponsor Bell Enterprises -- as well as electronic phonebook SuperPages, business-management software publisher Business Objects, pet superstore Petcetera, electronics giant Sony, DHL couriers and Canada's national automotive and household-goods store, Canadian Tire.
For three hours in the afternoon of May 7, Chilliwack, a town in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, will host an ethnic arts section, called "The Faces of Chilliwack--A Cultural Celebration", as part of its annual month-long arts festival, as homage to the 2010 Games. Organizers say the event, suggested by the town's Spirit of 2010 Committee, will concentrate on arts produced by the area's main ethnic groups, but it's not being sponsored by any 2010-related organization. The funding is coming from the Downtown Business Improvement Association, the Chilliwack Arts Council and the Chilliwack School District. There will be a Korean choir, Indian dancing, a Dutch choir, Middle Eastern dancing and South African drumming. Organizers hope it will grow annually to be a large event by 2010. Speaking of Chilliwack, those 25 trumpeters that opened the 2010 "Imagine" show Saturday night were from Chilliwack Middle School's 140-member band, known as the Marching Chargers. They were spotted by VANOC organizers during Vancouver's Christmas parade.
Douglas Schmidt, the 49-year-old composer for the Victoria Symphony, has written a 15-minute work inspired by the 2010 Winter Olympics, called "Games of Good and Evil". Its premier performance Friday at the University of Victoria Centre, part of the Victoria Symphony's Odyssey Series, included Italian violinist Silvia Mondolini accompanied by strings, and piano. Schmidt played as well on one of his favourite instruments, a rarity called the bandoneon, a kind of concertina. He says that some people worry about the impact on their community of the Games, while others are pleased about the impact on sport.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 25, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #967
SECRET MEETING SET NEXT MONTH WITH TREATY NEGOTIATOR OVER CALLAGHAN VALLEY; VANOC'S LOGO NOT UP YET ON SPONSOR WEBSITES; KULICH PREPARED CROWD FOR LOGO UNVEILING

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Directors of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District will meet behind closed doors next month with John Pyper, a treaty negotiator with the provincial government's Attorney-General's department, and an unidentified representative from the B.C. Ministry of Transportation. The meeting will be held at 10am Pacific time on May 19 at the regional district's offices in Pemberton, near Whistler. The subject: the status of the land-transfer negotiations connected with the 2010 Olympic Legacy Agreement. Pyper has been involved for months in talks over a number of aspects that involve VANOC, the provincial government, the Whistler Nordic Centre in the Callaghan Valley, and the Squamish and Lil'wat aboriginal groups.
The web site of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) was ready with the new logo placed on it this weekend, but so far the major commercial sponsors of the Games have yet to use it in any obvious way. It wasn't on the Royal Bank's portal website this morning, the first business day in Canada after it was announced. Nor has it yet appeared on the websites of Bell Canada, McDonald's Canada, or HBC's portal site to its department stores, the Hudson's Bay and Zellers. Atos Origin has an Olympic Rings logo on its home page, because it contracts to the International Olympic Committee to supply networking services to a number of Games, but on the page which discusses that, the VANOC Bid logo is still appearing. The International Olympic Committee, however, features it front-and-centre on its home page -- in its news section.
Marti Kulich, the director of Project Management for VANOC, doubled as the producer of the "Imagine" show on CTV that introduced the logo. Kulich's background over the years has also focused on ceremonial planning for a wide range of other large-scale events. And it was no accident that the crowd of about 3,000 who became a studio audience at GM Place for the hour-long broadcast, was pumped, standing, applauding, whistling and enthusiastic when the logo was unveiled. Kulich bounded out onto the stage about half an hour before the show got going and worked the crowd for a while, showing them the kind of cheering he wanted, through the use of video from the announcement that Vancouver won the Bid, and then challenging sections of the crowd to out-perform other sections. The crowd's volume also noticeably increased every time an image of British Columbia appeared on the large screens used as backdrops. In addition, the largest marketing of the opportunity to get free tickets to the event was to VANOC's. Olympic-supporters and volunteers e-mail lists.

RESOURCES

Marti Kulich introduced us to the overall planning of VANOC in four part series we published in January, that began with:
'A feature series: Part 1 of "60,000 Milestones" - An inside look at the drivers of the 2010 Games'
[Morgan:News:2010:Number:791; Published on Wednesday, January 26, 2005]

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 25, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |General| #966
MEANING -- AND TYPE -- OF INUIT CULTURAL REFERENCE ADOPTED BY VANOC FOR ITS LOGO QUESTIONED BY CANADIAN SCIENTIST

A Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society says the new 2010 logo is not an inukshuk; it's an inunnguaq.

And, adds 73-year-old Norman Hallendy, an ethno-geographer who wrote the first academic paper on the inukshuk, "The two objects are very different."

Hallendy was interviewed by Joseph Brean of the National Post newspaper for an article published this morning. And Brean says Hallendy told him it isn't even uniquely Canadian, thanks to archeological field work in Patagonia, Mongolia, Iceland and the Sahara.

Brean reports the word inukshuk -- its plural is inuksuit -- means "that which acts in the capacity of a person," and comes from the word inuk, which is the plural of Inuit, which, like virtually all human names for ethnic groups, means "person." Inukshuk are stones stacked by Inuit on land to remind themselves and instruct others about all sorts of things: danger, a safe crossing, a spring of fresh water, thin ice, deep snow, or that travellers should go a particular way.

Hallendy told Brean that an inukshuk has essentially the same cultural reference to the Inuit as a traffic signal or a string around your finger does to non-Inuit.

On the other hand, people-shaped versions have a different meaning, according to Hallendy in the article. He tells of a collection of inunnguait which is the plural of inunnguaq, at Pelly Bay in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. They were built under the direction of a missionary priest, hence their resemblance to a cross.

Hallendy told Brean the debate continues over whether Inuit made humanoid rock piles before the arrival of Christian Europeans. Hallendy added that inunnguait were built to show that an Inuit village was nearby, "or to mark the place where women had been swept out to sea... An inunnguaq actually referred to a person, with all the spiritual gravity of a tombstone."

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 25, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |VANOC| #965
OFFICIAL LOGO LAUNCHED DURING CANADA-WIDE TELEVISION BROADCAST

The official marketing of the 2010 Winter Games lurched into first gear tonight, despite missed cues and a few somewhat dazzled executives, with a Canada-wide, hour-long television broadcast to introduce the official emblem of the Games.

The emblem of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) is a colourful representation described as an inukshuk, a stone sculpture used by Canada's Inuit people in the snow and ice of the Arctic as safety and friendship directional marks.

The emblem's nickname is "Ilanaaq", which Nunavut premier Paul Okalik says means, "More than ‘friend', it's like a buddy." Nunavut is an aboriginal-based territory that covers the eastern half of the northern part of Canada, and was created only a few years ago. VANOC CEO John Furlong, who took part in the broadcast and was exhausted by the end of it, urged young Canadians to build inukshuks all across the country. But, cautioned premier Okalik, in response, "You people in southern Canada can build them all you want, but in Nunavut, they mean something special, so be careful where you build them, so they don't point us the wrong way."

The emblem was designed by 38-year-old Elena Rivera-MacGregor and her employee, Gonzalo Alatorre, of Rivera Design in Vancouver, a 14-year-old design firm of four people that is about to move into offices that are twice the size of the ones it now occupies. The logo was chosen by a panel of nine judges from over 1,600 submissions. Rivera-MacGregor, a bubbly, cheerful woman, became an instant celebrity among the dozens of news crews that were accredited for the event.

Rivera-MacGregor says she came up with the design concept shortly after attending the day-long design conference that was part of VANOC's controversial competition program for the design of the logo last summer and fall.

She based her studies for it on an inukshuk that was originally designed for Expo 86, an international, transportation-related festival hosted by Vancouver in 1986. That sculpture was placed by the City of Vancouver in a small park near the ocean in the densely populated West End area of Vancouver, where she lives. It's the only one she's ever seen. The green and blues are for coastal forests, mountain ranges, the panels for islands. The red is Canada's national colour and the yellow for a sunrise, but they're also the colours of the Olympic rings. "It just came to me. I put it in the back of my head, because I thought, it can't be that easy. It doesn't get any better than this."

The colours are also present in most of the logos of the commercial sponsors of the Games, including GE's blue, Coca-Cola's red, McDonald's yellow, Swatch's Omega blue, Visa's blue and yellow, Atos Origin, Bell Canada and the RBC financial group.

She says she never considered incorporating Canada's traditional symbol of a maple leaf in the design, and she deliberately stayed away from concepts involving a snowflake or mountains, because others had done those.

"I wanted to win," she said backstage during the broadcast. “Strategically,” she said, “that was the hardest thing, to come up with the answer, the thing that would fit, not only within Olympic history, but something that would represent everything the Olympics are about, the people, the culture, the environment. It was a huge challenge."

Rivera said that she had already started work on the design, and had invested quite a bit of her firms' time and resources, when she became aware that Matthew Warburton, the president of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada's National Secretariat, had told Furlong that the GDC's organization's code of ethics specifically prohibits its members from doing work on a speculative basis. That, he said, would mean that for ethical reasons, the Society's 2,000 members across Canada would not be able to take part in the competition, since all but one of them would not be paid for their work.

In addition, Carmen von Richthofen, Executive Director of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, had written Furlong, saying that it backs the GDC's approach, adding, "We would like to make you aware that your proposed design selection process for the branding of the Olympic Winter Games is unprofessional, potentially economically harmful, not in the best interests of designers, and tantamount to requesting speculative work, that is, work for free."

However the incoming president replacing Warburton, GDC president Peggy Cady, later eased the restrictions, although she said she was doing so reluctantly.

Rivera-MacGregor said that her mind was eased by the change in attitude, but she never doubted she would submit a design. "It was a choice, and I had to be part of it."

The show, which featured about 500 performers, most of them in pageant formations, and about 200 technical crew, included a performance by the acrobatic troupe Circque du Soleil and speeches by Furlong, VANOC chairman Jack Poole, BC premier Gordon Campbell, and the federal minister whose portfolio includes Sport and the Winter Games, Stephen Owen, as well by as the head of the International Olympic Committee's commission overseeing the Games, Rene Fasel. The performance also saw a current CTV promotional item, flowing silk-like banners, somewhat obviously introduced in a number of parts of the presentation. About half of the presentation involved various inspirational-style videos, many of the prepared for other purposes by the International Olympic Committee.

In an odd marketing twist, every person who participated in putting on the event had signed non-disclosure agreements to prevent them from talking about the event beforehand. And even VANOC staffers were only told about aspects of the show on a need-to-know basis.

RESOURCES

VANOC's new logo:
http://www.morgan-news.com/2010/SupportFiles/2005-04/VANOClogo4c.jpg

Rivera Design Group:
604.687.4420

The inukshuk that inspired the logo:
http://www.seethewestend.com/inukshuk/inukshuk.htm

Nunavut premier Paul Okalik's biography:
http://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut/English/premier/bio/bio.shtml

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 23, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Government| #964
GODFREY TO HEAD UP WHISTLER'S 2010 SECRETARIAT

The municipality of Whistler is the latest organization to set up a 2010 Secretariat, and its new head will be Jim Godfrey, the municipality's senior bureaucrat for the past 20 years.

Godfrey is also Whistler's representative on the Board of Directors of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), and the chair of its Human Resources committee, which oversees issues dealing with VANOC's senior management. He'll remain in those positions.

As Whistler's senior manager, Godfrey has been deeply involved in the negotiations that led to a number of contracts and agreements between Whistler and VANOC. In his new role, he'll begin by preparing a business plan for Whistler and the Games; it's estimated the municipality has about C$400,000 in reserves to deal with aspects of the Games and it is expected to be adding to it annually for the next couple of years.

Godfrey's month-to-month tenure at Whistler has long been the topic of discussion and negotiations, after his contract expired last fall following a six-month extension. His new arrangement is expected to pay him about C$200,000 a year until the agreement expires in June, 2010, the time frame when most people involved with the 2010 Games at VANOC and its partner organizations will be laid off or moved to other jobs.

Until a replacement for Godfrey is found, he'll report directly to council, which has only just started the process of hiring a new administrator, estimated to take several months. Deputy Administrator Bill Barratt is expected to take on the acting administrator duties in the meantime.

The City of Vancouver, the provincial and federal governments, and the Musqueam aboriginal band in Vancouver have all set up similar secretariats.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 22, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Government| #963
FEDERAL SPORT MINISTER TO TAKE PART IN 2010 LOGO UNVEILING CEREMONIES

The federal government's Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State (Sport), Stephen Owen, will be among the dignitaries taking part tomorrow in the unveiling of the new Vancouver 2010 Olympic logo at General Motors Place, in Vancouver. The event will be broadcast live across the country by CTV.

Owen says the government is committed to making the Games a national event. "This means that Canadians from all backgrounds will have a chance to participate in this international sporting event." And, he added, "As the Games approach, Canadians from across the country should have an opportunity to get involved. Whether you are a volunteer, a business owner, an athlete, a cultural performer, a student or a teacher, it's time to start preparing for the Games."

Owen says that, "Hosting the 2010 Winter Games will generate important social benefits, including work, training, and volunteering opportunities, as well as youth and Aboriginal participation. And these Games will renew an emphasis on fitness."

Owen says the federal government has so far committed C$497 million towards their production.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 22, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #962

WHISTLER CITY LABOUR DISPUTE NOISIER;

BBC'S 2010 NEGOTIATOR LEAVING;

VANOC MARKETING BROADCAST LOW KEY

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Whistler City Hall is a little distracted from Olympics preparations these days because of a noisy labour dispute over the status of negotiations involving 29 workers from the utilities, wastewater treatment plant sections, and including some bylaw officers. They've been working to rule since the end of February, and the B.C. Federation of Labour has publicly voiced support for the employees in the dispute. There are a broad range of issues involved, including hours and wages. Earlier this week, about 100 people supporting the workers, including BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair, demonstrated outside the city council's chambers.
The man who negotiated the BBC's rights to broadcast the 2010 Winter Olympics to England won't be at the helm when the broadcast occurs. BBC's director of sport, Peter Salmon, said today he's quit this summer, after five years on the job, to become the CEO of Rupert Murdoch's independent production company, The Television Corporation. He was able to attract 11 million viewers for the 2004 Athens Olympics on BBC One last year, which set a record. Dave Gordon, BBC's chief of major events, will look after the sport job until a replacement is found.
If you're wondering "Where's the buzz?" about the first major marketing activity of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), you're not the only one. CTV will be broadcasting VANOC's "Imagine
2010 - Canada's Olympic Journey Begins" nationally as an hour-long presentation, starting at 7pm Pacific Saturday night from GM Place in downtown Vancouver, and so the TV network has been running a rotation of one -- count them! -- 30-second ad as a program promo for the past week, but the ad is, at best, low-key, showing several generic athletic winter scenes as the voice-over talks about the broadcast with no specific information other than the time and date. There have been no concurrent Bell or HBC ads with mentions, though they also have marketing and sponsorship rights, nor have there been any in-store promotions. VANOC will be unveiling the new emblem, the putative point of the broadcast, about halfway through the show, but even in media accreditation discussion, says only that the show features "live performances"; it's kept everybody involved under non-disclosure agreements with significant penalties.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 22, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Government| #961
FORMER RICHMOND PLANNING CHAIR UNCOMFORTABLE WITH SCOPE OF BEHIND-THE-SCENES DECISIONS ON 2010 OVAL

The former chair of the Richmond's Planning Committee, who is also an expert on the city's planning processes, is feeling quite uncomfortable with the number and breadth of the decisions taken behind closed doors over construction of the 2010 speed-skating oval complex.

Corisande Pervical-Smith notes that Richmond council decided to bid on the Olympic project "without ever discussing the matter publicly. And during the bidding process, councillors and city staff spent tens of thousands of [public] dollars travelling the world, looking at Olympic and athletic facilities in Europe and North America."

The entire sports complex, now expected to cost up to C$155 million, of which C$60 million is pledged by the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to deal with construction of the oval, is now the largest, single, public-construction project the municipality has ever supervised.

Percival-Smith adds that, "One of the most frightening aspects of this mega-project mentality is that the project has grown beyond the mere oval on the waterfront to include an entire section of the City's town centre, where master planning and rezoning decisions have already been made and they were made with real haste."

And, he adds, "An entire quarter of the town centre has been rezoned and the Official Community Plan amended to make way for a massive development, the implications of which have not even been studied superficially. Councillors approved a policy change a couple of weeks ago that eliminates the requirement for public tendering and competitive bidding for the construction of the Oval. This is one decision made with a mere whimper of debate and contrary to the advice of the B.C. Construction Association."

He says he's also quite worried about the ability of Richmond to cover the cost of the project.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 20, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #960

2010 LEGACIESNOW'S TAIT OFFERS ROUND OF ADVICE;

WEARABLE-ART SHOW FUNDED BY 2010 PROGRAM;

BELL'S BLIMP OFFERS ONLY PASSING NOD TO GAMES

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Ian Tait, the Director of Community Legacy Initiatives for 2010 LegaciesNow, is in the process of touring towns and cities throughout the province. His message is essentially the same in each Opportunities Forum set up for the concept: He's encouraging businesses in those areas to take advantage of the resources that are evolving for the business side of the 2010 Games, and ensuring they know the opportunities surrounding the Games are from now until after them. And, he notes that the opportunities are both direct and indirect. He also notes that, businesses should not develop an Olympic business plan, adding, "stick to your current business plan and develop an Olympic opportunity." He's expected to be in Ashcroft, in south central B.C., today.
The Arts Centre Society of Port Moody, a town just east of Vancouver, will get C$3,500 from ArtsNow, a 2010 LegaciesNow program designed to fund specific cultural activities leading up to 2010. Culture is one of the concurrent concepts that interests the International Olympic Committee, and was one of the promises made in support of the bid. The Society's wearable-art fashion show, which includes an exhibit, is getting the funds' support. Linda Baker, chair of the Tri-Cities Spirit of B.C. Community Committee, says the annual event draws entries from around B.C. and the U.S. "Together with opportunities brewing to entice fashion museum collection to the region, this vision to grow a world-class wearable art event," she says.
Bell Canada has begun a general marketing promotion throughout British Columbia that involves a blimp sailing over various venues. The blimp, which Bell calls a "lightship", is illuminated from the interior, and has a large Bell logo on its underside. A Bell spokesman says, however, that there are only a couple of minor connections to this marketing and the company's 2010 sponsorship: "The lightship will be flying over the logo unveiling on April 23rd. And certain routes will cover 2010 venues."

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 20, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #959

FURLONG IS IN BERLIN AT IOC MEETING;

SECRECY SUSTAINS "IMAGINE" SHOW DESPITE LEGAL SONG AND DANCE;

BC BID TINKERED

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The CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), John Furlong, is in Berlin, meeting with the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board, and reporting on progress of the 2010 Games, including confirmation its emblem will be released on Saturday. The IOC, meanwhile, also heard a report that the Athens Torch Relay, which for the first time was held across all five continents, was quite successful in marketing the Games. The Executive Board said that it would "welcome initiatives and study proposals from future Organizing Committees wishing to repeat the experience." The Executive Board agreed the IOC should play a greater role in the planning and staging of torch relays because they "strongly convey the spirit of the Olympic Games and set the tone of the forthcoming celebration across the world."
VANOC's relationship with the BC government has allowed VANOC to achieve changes to the BC Bid system. Normally when an ITQ or an RFP is issued through BC Bid, the name of the winning firm and the amount of the contract is issued on the system so that every firm that took part in submitting a bid or a quote knows what happened and the difference in their bid versus the winning bid. It's good for competition. The closing date for one of the ITQs issued by VANOC, ITQ-016, which is in connection with VANOC's new emblem and thus covered in secrecy, was in mid-March. There's no word from VANOC via BC Bid who won it, whether the ITQ was withdrawn, not awarded or anything similar. For that matter, VANOC has yet to issue the amount of any contract it's awarded through BC Bid, though every other agency using the system does so on a regular basis. A while back, VANOC was forced to put C$1 in the award field of the BC Bid database, because the BC Bid software wouldn't let it leave the field empty. The software was later updated by BC Bid programmers to allow for VANOC's secrecy. VANOC's defense is that often the contract awards involve more than simply a dollar value, and so reporting of the dollar amount would be misleading. Both BC Bid and VANOC are silent on the possibility that instead of further restricting the system, that it be expanded to allow for non-cash components to be identified.
From the "It's a Secret!" department: In case you're wondering why there hasn't been any information about who's doing what, and when, in connection with the "Imagine" television production of VANOC that's to take place this Saturday evening in Vancouver, it's because the city is practically papered with non-disclosure agreements issued by VANOC in connection with the show. Which is why we can't tell you the name of the Vancouver branch of a national Canadian law firm, nor the marketing-oriented partner involved, that is supplying additional personnel to the show after one of the production-related firms putting on the show (the name of which we also are protecting) quickly needed some additional people a few days ago. Lawyers dancing? Maybe. We can't really say. But it will take a while to get the image out of our mind.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 19, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #958

TORINO SOCCER CLUBS TO SPONSOR 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS FOR MARKETING;

TORINO VENUE FOR 2010 CEREMONIES TO BE FINISHED THIS FALL;

GM PROVIDES FOUR CARS TO CANADIAN SKIERS

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Torino's two soccer clubs, Series A giants Juventus and Torino, have both agreed to take part in marketing the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy, as part of a sponsorship agreement with the Games's organizing committee, TOROC. The mascots of the Torino Games - Neve and Gliz - will be at the Delle Alpi stadium before and during Juve and Torino's home league games. And a big banner with the Torino Games logo will be put at the centre of the pitch before each game. "We think that through football is the best way to make everyone aware than in less than one year, we will host the Winter Olympic Games," said TOROC supervisor Mario Pescante. "We also hope that the values of the Olympics can help bring some serenity to football." In exchange, the two hugely popular clubs get to use the Olympic logos with their marketing. Antonio Giraudo, Juventus' spokesman said, "We are happy to unite Juventus' colours, history and successes to the Olympic colours and values."
Speaking of Torino, its Stadio Comunale, the the site of the Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, is expected to be ready in the autumn. This will be the location of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee's part of the closing ceremonies. The renovation and Olympic overlay work is being done by the Torino Calcio soccer club, which owns the facility, which seats 30,000. The work is expected to cost e40 million (C$65 million).
General Motors of Canada provides the keys to a new Pontiac or GMC vehicle for one year to any skier of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team who won a World Championship medal, a World Cup gold medal, or finished the season ranked among the top 10 in any discipline. It's an additional incentive to the skiers from its top sponsor. Four members of the Team will be getting their car keys this month: Thomas Grandi of Canmore, Alberta, won World Cup gold and made history as the first Canadian man to win a Giant Slalom in Alta Badia, Italy; he repeated the win three days later at Flachau, Austria. It's his second car from GM. In 2004, Geneviève Simard from Val Morin, Quebec, won the World Cup gold and was the first women to win a Super G at the Cortina d'Ampezzo race. Emily Brydon of Fernie, B.C., who was had overall World Cup ranking of 3rd in the combined, and Brigitte Acton, from Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, who placed 10th in the combined will also get the cars. GM of Canada has only one year left in its five-year agreement with the Alpine Ski Team to sponsor the developmental alpine racing series called the Pontiac GMC Cup. For the past two years, GM has also provided national team athletes access to its wind-tunnel and engineering experts at its Vehicle Development Centre in Warren, Michigan.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 18, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |IOC| #957
COC TO KEEP HELM STEADY, BUT WITH INCREASED WINTER-SPORTS EXPERTISE, DURING RUN-UP TO 2010 OLYMPICS

The Canadian Olympic Committee annual Congress voted in Regina, Saskatchewan, over the weekend to keep the leadership of its Board of Directors and the COC's senior management relatively stable for the next four to five years, while increasing the role of winter sports in its expertise between now and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

COC President Michael Chambers, a member of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), was re-elected to a second five-year term as president. The term would expire in April, 2009, just as VANOC begins a summer of constructing Olympic overlays for most of its venues. The electoral move is seen as providing continuity of the COC's direction through to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver as the COC also deals with the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, next February, and the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, just 18 months later.

Chambers, an Ottawa-based lawyer, has been president since 2001 and has served in various management roles on the COC Board since 1984. He also a member of the Executive Committee of the Pan American Sport Organization.

The two Vice-Presidents elected to the Board are Jean Dupré, Director General of Speed Skating Canada, who will serve his first term as vice-president, and Walter Sieber, who has been a COC Vice-President since 1985 and whose focus is on summer sports. Dupré, based in Ottawa, has been a member of the COC board for the past 14 years. He was recently selected as a member of the Own the Podium's 2010 Steering Committee, the fundraising and focusing goal of placing Canada first at the 2010 Games in Vancouver in medals. He has held various positions with Speed Skating Canada, Ski Jump Canada and Cross Country Canada.

Wayne Russell, currently CEO of the "Own the Podium - 2010" project, was elected to his first term as Treasurer. Based in Ottawa, he has been a COC board member since 1997 and has a long association with Hockey Canada, including serving as Executive Vice Chair, Chair and Past Chair.

The members elected to the COC Executive Committee for a four-year term, with a focus in winter sports include:

Charmaine Crooks of Vancouver, a five-time Olympian in Athletics and silver medallist in the 4X400m relay at the 1984 Olympic Games, who has served in various roles with the COC, the IOC and VANOC.

Marcel Aubut, a Quebec City-based lawyer who is one of Quebec's most visible and well-known personalities in the world of sport. Aubut has served with many corporations and charities in Quebec, most prominently with professional hockey, particularly as President and CEO of the former Quebec Nordiques.

Shane Pearsall, who is based in Calgary as the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Bobsleigh Canada. He has been a COC Executive Committee member since 1997 and is Canada's Chef de Mission for the 2006 Canadian Olympic team in Turin.

Steve Podborski, one of the legendary "Crazy Canucks" who won a bronze medal in Downhill Skiing at the 1980 Olympic Games. Podborski, who lives in Whistler, has been a member of the COC since 2003 and has contributed to various sport organizations over the years, including VANOC.

Sally Rehorick, of Fredericton, a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, who was Canada's Chef de Mission for the Olympic team in Salt Lake City in 2002 and has served in various capacities with the COC, the International Skating Union and Skate Canada.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 18, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Government| #956
BC PLEDGES C$20.5 MILLION TO HELP DEVELOP NORTHERN SPORT CENTRE IN PRINCE GEORGE AS PART OF 2010 FITNESS PLAN

The BC Liberal provincial government has pledged C$20.5 million to help fund development of the Northern Sport Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George.

BC Liberal premier Gordon Campbell made the announcement in the north-central B.C. city over the weekend. "This is just a start to building the kind of culture of sport and physical fitness we want in the province," Campbell said.

He said the NSC was part of his government's goal of increasing the fitness level of BC residents by 20% by 2010, when the Winter Olympics will be held.
The first phase of the Northern Sport Centre, projected to cost C$31.6 million, involves several gymnasiums with seating for 2,000, a field house with an indoor track and an outdoors sports field and links to the Otway ski trails, which are being improved separately.

PacificSport will also continue to be connected to it through its University base. It also expects to offer athletes access to support services, coaches and new testing facilities. The City of Prince George and the University are also expected to contribute to the balance of the project's cost by the time the NSC is opened in 2008.

The Northern Sport Centre is also planned to be a community facility is to work with existing facilities in Prince George such as the Northern Medical Program.

Provincial funding for the UNBC Northern Sport Centre comes from the Major Post-Secondary Sports Training Facilities Initiative. The provincial government's 2005/06-2007/08 budget and fiscal plans committed up to C$60 million towards the Major Post-Secondary Sports Training Facilities Initiative, but at the moment the Liberal government only has legal authority for six months of spending under an Interim Supply bill approved before the BC Legislature dissolved for the May 17 provincial election. The BC Liberals say they will seek legislative approval for the full amounts in the fall sitting of the Legislature, assuming they form the government after the election.

BACKGROUND

PacificSport is the quasi-government organization that has a BC network of multiple-sport centres. They include the Canadian Sport Centres in Vancouver and Victoria, the Telus Whistler Sport Centre and Regional Sport Centres serving Vancouver Island out of Nanaimo, the Fraser Valley out of Abbotsford, the interior of BC from a base in Kamloops and the Okanagan area from operations in Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon.

The PacificSport Group technical committee the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), SportMed BC, the Coaches Association of British Columbia, the National Coaching Institute of B.C, the BC Games Society, Sport BC, Promotion Plus, the Aboriginal Sport and Recreation Association, the Aboriginal Sport Development Centre, the Sport and Fitness Council for the Disabled and various relationships with communities, municipalities, school districts, parks and recreation departments, colleges, universities, local sport organizations and clubs, as well as some businesses.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 18, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |Government| #955
MUSQUEAM TO ESTABLISH 2010 OLYMPIC SECRETARIAT

The Musqueam aboriginal band of Vancouver is forming a 2010 Olympic Secretariat, apparently in response to a recent set of agreements the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) reached with other aboriginal organizations.

Organizational-support documents about the establishment of the office say its 2010 Secretariat office, which will be led by a person with the title of co-ordinator, will "develop and implement the agreements, policies and programs related to the 2010 Olympics, including career and employment opportunities, small-business development, culture and volunteers."

The documents also say the Secretariat "will represent the Musqueam to external parties on matters related to the 2010 Olympics." It will also be responsible for establishing "partnership involvement", negotiating "protocols and legacy agreements [and overseeing] the day-to-day operations" of its Olympic-related relationships. The latter appears to be connected conceptually to the establishment of what the Musqueam see as public-private arrangements between itself and companies involved with 2010.

Musqueam's main community of 1,100 members live on Musqueam Reserve #2 at the mouth of Fraser River on the southwest side of Vancouver. The Musqueam Indian Band two other reserves are a small area on Sea Island, adjacent to Vancouver International Airport, and one in the Vancouver suburb of Delta.

There's still more work to be done, apparently, in determining exactly what direction the new Musqueam Secretariat office will take, or what types of arrangements they have in mind. The the band leaders, however, would have seen in some detail the kinds of arrangements being set up, and still to be negotiated, between VANOC and the Squamish and Lil'Wat bands as the Olympic organizers dealt with them over environmental aspects of developing VANOC's lead venue, the Callaghan Valley for the Whistler Nordic Centre.

Those negotiations sprang from the provincial government's environmental office treating seriously the complaints of the Squamish and Lil'Wat about the lack of progress, at least up until last January, in having VANOC implement the promises it made to four aboriginal bands when they all signed the Shared Legacies agreement.

The Musqueam band hopes to hire its first Secretariat co-ordinator next month.

BACKGROUND

Secretariats appear to be an organizational trend within the Canadian 2010 Olympic industry. The federal and provincial governments each have one, the four aboriginal groups involved with the 2010 Games have one, and the City of Vancouver recently set one up. Bell Communications, which has the telecommunications sponsorship agreement, and HBC, which has the department-store sponsorship, are in the process of each setting one up internally to manage their sponsorship arrangements with VANOC, although they don't call them "secretariats." They are the bureaucratic and management response to the fact that the 2010 Winter Olympics cross horizontally a number of otherwise vertical departments within a bureaucracy.

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Last November 24, the four aboriginal groups whose lands are affected by the development of the 2010 Winter Games -- the Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh -- signed an agreement with VANOC to ensure that their protocols and traditions would be acknowledged and respected throughout the planning, staging and hosting of the Games in Vancouver and Whistler. In exchange, these bands agreed to work, according to the wording, in a "co-operative and mutually supportive manner in order to participate fully in the Games and to take advantage of the social, sporting, cultural and economic opportunities and legacies that will arise as a result of the Games." The document is now known as the Four Host First Nations agreement.

The four bands were to also form a Secretariat, made up of two representatives from each of the four aboriginal groups, with the idea of reaching a protocol agreement with VANOC by this spring. It's first executive director is Tewanee Joseph, who was born in North Vancouver and who is half Squamish and half Maori, an aboriginal group in New Zealand, and who was on a championship lacrosse team for some years. He was first elected to the Squamish tribal council when he was 21. He also runs a multimedia consulting business, the Tewanee Consulting Group, specializing in aboriginal communications.

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On April 4, representatives of the governments of Canada and British Columbia, and Musqueam chief Ernest Campbell, signed what's known as a Framework Agreement, completing the third stage of the B.C. government's six-step process for negotiating a treaty. Canadian governments have only reached treaties with a handful of aboriginal groups in British Columbia, because of the way the province's history has evolved, and all but one of those treaties were reached in the 1800s. The exception is the Nisga'a Treaty, which covers a group of related aboriginal communities in north-western B.C. As a result, aboriginal bands -- such as the Musqueam, Squamish and Lil'Wat, all of whom deal with VANOC -- still claim much of the land on which VANOC proposes to build or renovate its venues. In the case of the Musqueam, Stage 4 of the Treaty settlement process involves coming to agreements in principle with the federal and provincial negotiators on land and land-compensation issues, fisheries, economic development and aboriginal governance.

RESOURCES

The website of the Musqueam:
http://musqueam.bc.ca/Home.html

Tewanee Consulting Group
http://www.tewanee.com

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 18, 2005

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Morgan:News:2010 |Moguls| #954

TWO VANOC CONSTRUCTION TENDER PACKAGES ABRUPTLY PULLED FROM BC BID;

SAN JUAN ISLANDS ORGANIZE FOR 2010;

PRIESTNER IN REGINA AS COC SPEAKER

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We learned late today that something's gone wrong with the contracting pre-qualification process for a couple of the tender packages for the Whistler Sliding Centre. We're still checking, but it's possible they were prematurely published. The packages -- RFQ NO 2010-05 #3 for construction of the track refrigeration and plant buildings, and Tender Package #4, for several civil works and buildings -- was suddenly pulled from B.C. Bid, the government's official tender distribution system, with a cryptic comment by VANOC finance manager Jane O'Flaherty, who writes that VANOC "will recommence prequalification... later in 2005." The refrigeration tender wasn't scheduled to be issued until around June 13. The civil works and buildings were to include construction of a reservoir and booster-pump station, buildings for the Men's Start, Women's Start, Junior Start, Control Tower, Weigh House, Track Operations and Guest Services. It was also include site lighting and landscaping. However, when this aspect was originally outlined, the tendering and starting dates hadn't yet been determined.
The San Juan Islands are a group of islands on the American side of the border in the salt water that separates northern Washington State and Vancouver Island. The director of San Juan Island Visitors Bureau, Deborah Hopkins, reports that a 2010 Winter Olympic Committee, made up of members of the Lopez, Orcas and San Juan chambers of commerce, now exists. The committee is to meet quarterly to figure out ways of promoting the islands and island businesses in connection with the 2010 Games. The San Juan chamber says it will start its part by hosting a forum in the island town of Friday Harbor for businesses to outline what it knows about the development of the Games.
When the Canadian Olympic Committee met yesterday in Regina to consider the concept of starting an Own The Podium equivalent approach to fundraising and focusing efforts on specific sports in hopes of improving Canada's medal count at summer Olympics, one of the speakers had specific expertise to offer. That would be the senior vice-president of Sport, Cathy Priestner, who co-authored the controversial but successful winter version of the program.

Originally published to Morgan:News:2010:Gold subscribers on April 15, 2005

Morgan:News:2010 |VANOC| #953
2,400 MORE FREE TICKETS OFFERED FOR EMBLEM-LAUNCH SHOW

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) is releasing another 2,400 free tickets for its April 23 launch show, "Imagine 2010 - Canada's Olympic Journey Begins."

The new tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster starting at noon tomorrow Pacific Time April 16. Those in the audience will be part of VANOC's first live nation-wide broadcast on the CTV network, which recently won the Canadian TV broadcasting rights.

When VANOC offered 1,000 tickets on March 31 for people to be in the audience for the national television broadcast, they disappeared within seconds. That prompted officials to have another look at the staging for the show, at GM Place, in downtown Vancouver.

VANOC is still keeping the programming notes close to the chest for the event, but says it "will feature hundreds of performers and surprise special guests as the stage is set for the dramatic unveiling of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games emblem."

VANOC attaches much more importance to its new logo than the general public, which is finally getting a chance to be a part of the official aspects of the organization through the show. But VANOC's focus continues to be on the emblem, the evidence in a quote from VANOC CEO John Furlong, released as part of the marketing material for the show.

He's quoted as saying,

"From the stands at General Motors Place to living rooms and gathering places across the country, Canadians will get their first look at the emblem that will become one of the most recognizable logos in the world. This is the first chapter in the story of the 2010 Winter Games that will unfold over the next five years."

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games emblem was was selected by an international judging panel following a nation-wide 2010 Olympic emblem design competition that drew more than 1,600 submissions from throughout Canada, and a considerable amount of controversy from within Canada's graphic design community, which opposes the method of such competitions as unethical.

On April 23, GM Place's doors open at 5:30 pm Pacific time. The event begins at 6:30 pm with the broadcast running from 7 to 8 pm.

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