Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

After this long, painful drawn out affair, Wayne Gretzky lit the Olympic flame capping off a frenzied day that included the death of an athlete, protests and a lot of people bedding down in $600/night hotels that I would rent for $95/night.

This from the CBC : Members of the Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island say the Hudson's Bay Company ripped-off their design for one of the most sought-after pieces of Canada's Olympic uniforms. The First Nation says it bid to knit its traditional sweaters for the Games, but instead the company went with a knock-off. The art of knitting what locals call "the Cowichan sweater" has been handed down from generation to generation, Cowichan elder Jenny Martin told CBC News Wednesday. "My mom taught me how to knit when I was 15 … and my mom had-made sweaters and ponchos," Martin said. Martin said the Bay's version of the sweater has an elk and a maple leaf but lacks authenticity. "It's not Cowichan-made," she said. The local MLA said the situation makes him angry. "VANOC has threatened legal action against businesses that use the Olympic logo or even use the word 'Olympic,'" said the B.C. NDP's Bill Routley. ...

No one would willingly create the economic disaster that the Olympics brings. Montreal was in debt debt for a generation. Every city victimized by the IOC forms the path of wreckage all the way up to the Vancouver 2010. The Liberals pushed for the games and spent millions of known dollars winning the bid. They pledged that this Olympics would not see massive disruption and that it would stay in the black. Big corporate sponsors like Nortel pledged to support them. This would create jobs, not destroy jobs. The Olympics would be a benefit to all communities in BC. Flash forward to 2009. This from Global TV -- ...for up to two months next year, meaning thousands of people from small B.C. communities will likely not be able to fly directly into the city. Daryl Smith, CEO of Pacific Coastal Airlines, said Monday that flights coming from communities such as Powell River, Bella Bella, Port Hardy and Trail will not be deemed secure enough to fly into into YVR during a two-month period surround...