If you’re an Olympic junkie, I’m sure you can rattle off the sponsors of the games even now after they are over. And, if you were watching CTV or TSN or Sportsnet, you probably lost count of the micro-sponsors who have chucked out hundreds of thousands of dollars to sponsor something insignificant like the McDonalds [...]

Let me say this right off the top: I love the idea of investing in Canadian athletics and celebrating the Canadian Olympic effort. In fact, I love everything about the Olympics…well almost everything.  Is Ice Dancing really a sport? If the answer is yes, then lets consider Ballet for the Summer Olympics.
However, our Canadian Olympic [...]

So I was sitting down at lunch last week while checking out CBC.ca last week, as I usually do on a daily basis. You know, making sure I was up on world events n’ such – when I noticed a feature for their Olympic website.
While I was checking it out, it donned on me that [...]

It took a specific cocktail of circumstances, but I had my first Olympic moment. And, surprisingly, it wasn’t when I saw the Olympic flame and it wasn’t while chanting “go Canada go” or “boo-S-A” during the Canada vs USA men’s hockey game in downtown Vancouver. The moment came Monday night when I was downtown at [...]

Colleen Holloway here, out in Vancouver of day 10 of the Olympics and Day 3 of my Olympic adventure! Bunking with some buds out in Burnaby, I landed at the Vancouver airport last Friday. Right off the hop, I was surprised with the lack of crowds. It was calm and organized, a trickle of some [...]

One Bad Egg

23
Feb

You know when you do something that you shouldn’t and do it anyway… yep, it turned out bad again.
I tagged along with the crew from work on a lunch run to the local food court. Since I had previously eaten my lunch at my desk, I went to a little store to purchase a large [...]