In the Pacific Northwest it has truly been a pathetic excuse for spring. Bits of sun, and a slight warming, but all in all barely matching the “spring” we had in the middle of winter for the Olympics. Fortunately, it gives us the opportunity to admire the year round beauty of the Wet Coast.
Vancouverites and Canadians,
The international press, and the Brits especially (despite not caring about the Winter Olympics) seem to be having a field day unfairly maligning our Olympics. Most particularly offensive has been the prose of Lawrence Donegan writing for the Guardian. My letter to the editor is below, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
To The Editor:
As a long time reader of the Guardian I must inform you that I am deeply offended by the egregious bias displayed in your Vancouver 2010 Olympics coverage. It is obvious that Lawrence Donegan has an agenda and is destroying the journalistic integrity of the Guardian article by article. He has gone out of his way to malign this city’s Olympics in every way possible, completely misrepresenting the situation here. This city is behind the games, hundreds of thousands of people are showing up to the LiveCity celebration sites on a daily basis and the atmosphere is electric with every medal win.
Less offensive, but perhaps a greater crime from your perspective are the factual inaccuracies of the articles put forward. The writer constantly uses the figure of “$6 Billion” to indicate the cost of the games while the vast majority (4 billion) of that figure were for large public infrastructure projects that only opposition groups have included in their calculations. How can anyone consider a greatly needed rapid transit line to the airport part of the Olympic costs? That line is already running at capacity. He also calls it a mistake to have the Winter Olympics in the most southerly city ever when in fact there have been three Winter Olympics held below the 49th parallel. Perhaps if the author did any form or research or had even the slightest sense of geography he might have been able to determine that on his own.
I urge you to restore the journalistic integrity of your institution by removing these slanderous and factually inaccurate articles as well as publishing a retraction. I’ve previously held the Guardian in very high regard and an action of this nature is necessary to restore my faith.
Kind Regards,
- Josh Lavoie
Hello All,
Just getting around to posting photos from our most recent road trip. So far, I’ve posted some Crescent City CA, the Coast Redwoods, and a bit of a quick Napa / Sonoma stop off. Unfortunately I was too busy imbibing to take many photos there. More to come in the next few days, keep an eye on my blog or Flickr as I edit, filter, and tweak the rest of them. Cheers!
(If you’re still confused click the photo.. look up, the green stuff. Click damnit!)
- Josh
It’s snowboarding season. I’ve been out once, unfortunately it was raining (even on top of Grouse) fortunately, and unfortunately, the mercury is dropping with the arrival of clear skies and a lower freezing level. Back to the Mountains!
Ok folks, summer’s over, I was lazy, but updates are coming! As I seem to be relatively good at taking photos and updating Flickr that will be task number 1, but I promise to connect that with this blog in another manner. Additionally, I have a few rants stored up! Cheers Everyone!
Hello,
I’ve posted a bunch of pictures from a recent trip to Seattle. Turns out that it doesn’t always rain there! Take a look on Flickr.
Cheers!
- Josh
Hello Everyone,
My apologies for the inexcusable delay in providing new content. Things have been quite busy and stressful. I have however managed some new pictures! Please check them out on my Flickr page. In other news, this upcoming weekend includes a trip to Seattle. Pictures of baseball are promised!
Cheers,
- Josh
Hello Everyone,
My apologies for the unacceptably long delay. I’ll be on it more in the future. In the meantime, please check out my Flickr account. Many photos of a US roadtrip, and some really lame, poorly assembled, but mildly interesting (if you know me at least) videos. Check it!
- Josh
Hello All,
The pictures from my US road trip are finally up. Check them out here or via the handy Flickr widget on the top right. My apologies for the delay, I’m a little slow. View to your heart’s content. More content to come later. Cheers!
- Josh
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