Put the Beaver to bed
Halfway through the closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, I became profoundly and intensely embarrassed for our country. Everything was fine until Neil Young…
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Medal count shuffle
It never fails, watching the Olympics is like a practice in remembering something you only barely learned four years earlier. There are always some constants…
Reliving the winter Olympic spectacle
Oh, the Olympics. I heart you. Every two years you return to my lonely grasp, and in my desperate attempt to smile you lead me…
I forgot how much I like hockey
Just to note off the top, I’m not much of a sports fan. I have trouble sitting through any televised broadcast, and I am often…
Stop criticizing the Olympics
Since the Vancouver 2010 Olympics have started there has been a rush to see who can criticize them to the greatest extent. I would like…
Olympics bring obscurity to the forefront
Winter sports are few and far between, likely because many of us want nothing to do with the frigid outdoors. There is hockey, skiing, snowboarding,…
Freestyle spending
According to The Vancouver Poverty Olympics, a group of citizens who oppose the 2010 winter games, Vancouver’s lavish spending in order to host the Olympic…
Take pride, Canada
Canadians claim to be patriotic. We sew our flags on our backpacks when we travel; we chug Tim Hortons coffee like it’s going out of…
The weight of a nation
On Dec. 30 Hockey Canada announced the roster for the 2010 men’s Olympic hockey team. For weeks, months, even years before the official roster selection…
A dismissal of ski jumpers’ rights is a dismissal to us all
With strict laws enforcing equality in treatment for all Canadian citizens, we should all be proud bearers of the maple leaf — especially with the…