"Royal Bank Canada is one of the planet’s greenest companies" according to one of its own brochures...Yet RBC is now the major financier of Alberta’s tar sands, one of the largest industrial projects in human history and perhaps the most destructive. The tar sands, now the cause of the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet, are slated to expand several times its current size.

CBC News - May 15, 2010

Protesters crashed an open house at Vancouver's Olympic Village on Saturday, forcing police to lock the area down...Police tangled with the demonstrators as they attempted to push their way inside the building. Police shut down the open house at about 4 p.m., an hour earlier than scheduled, and locked down the area.

By Dave Zirin - 04/22/2010

When appointed head of the [International Olympic Committee] in 1980 Samaranch was known as a proud and open fascist...Samaranch was an honest to...goodness fascista. Born in 1920 to a wealthy factory owner in Barcelona, Samaranch knew with bloody clarity from his youth which side he was on...As a sportsman, Samaranch believed...that the Olympics should aspire to be an orgiastic celebration of nationalism and power.

By Pete McMartin - April 3, 2010

We now live in a province where the government is so cash-strapped that the trimming of its budget includes downgrading the frequency with which we clean the teeth of poor children...I hate to bring this up, again, but we have just finished throwing the largest and most expensive party in our province's history. It cost billions.

By Am Johal - April 03, 2010

The human rights and civil liberties train wreck that is the Olympic Games and the World Cup are continuing their carnival in other global cities soon and are no closer to recognizing human rights standards. They are still incapable of reining in the corporate sponsors and their desire for a sanitized public sphere that places a higher value on their target market rather [than] on citizen's rights to express themselves and engage in free speech.

By Boris Kagarlitsky - March 28, 2010

What is going on in Russia’s sports is typical for other spheres of life. Neo-liberalism yields the same results no matter where it is applied...The Vancouver Olympic Games showed the real situation in all its glory.

By Oshipeya - March 15, 2010

The fussing of a tiny number of socialists and social democrats over the violent and confrontational tactics used in conjunction with the black bloc tactic and the public’s supposedly mostly horrified reaction...show just how out of touch these particular activists are with the “public” they talk about, as well as the majority of the activist community of Vancouver.