Olympic bills trickle in: $550 million so far
Although a couple of billion dollar items have not yet been counted, a report suggests an early cost to the Olympics of $550 million, most of that being borne by Vancouver taxpayers. CTF-BC Director Maureen Bader comments in this Global report.
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The Olympic bill
Did people really think that the BC Olympic's would make money! Calgary was a different city and they made money but no other city has done the same. Starting with the Montreal Olypmics on (except Calgary) they have all lost bags of money and will continue to do so. London is over budget already and there is almost two years to go! With luck BC will not go to far in the hole and need to have a Loto started to bale the out.
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