550 housing units worth of medals?
Monday, April 28, 2008 by David Eby
The Government of Canada, combined with various government and private partners is spending $110m, the equivalent of 550 fully paid for social housing units, on winning more gold medals in 2010. A housing build of that magnitude would cut Vancouver's street homelessness by one third.
The Vancouver Sun is reporting that the latest expenditure from the "Own the Podium" program is "secret and confidential" research about snow conditions in the Callaghan Valley, where most of the Nordic events are to be held in 2010.
Dr. Roger Jackson, head of the program, describes the "Own the Podium" as something like a cross between an extreme version of the weather channel and the training program engaged by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago, in Rocky IV: "We're doing our own personal research, which is part of our top secret program. We are doing extraordinarily extensive work."
For those of you keeping track at home, VANOC provided $250,000 to Covenant House for homeless youth, spending that represents the equivalent of 1.25 social housing units or .002% of the "Own the Podium" program.
The Vancouver Sun is reporting that the latest expenditure from the "Own the Podium" program is "secret and confidential" research about snow conditions in the Callaghan Valley, where most of the Nordic events are to be held in 2010.
Dr. Roger Jackson, head of the program, describes the "Own the Podium" as something like a cross between an extreme version of the weather channel and the training program engaged by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago, in Rocky IV: "We're doing our own personal research, which is part of our top secret program. We are doing extraordinarily extensive work."
For those of you keeping track at home, VANOC provided $250,000 to Covenant House for homeless youth, spending that represents the equivalent of 1.25 social housing units or .002% of the "Own the Podium" program.
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