Cyber Debate

The Olympic Winter Games will benefit B.C.

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games are socially and economically beneficial to B.C. It will introduce "sustainable economic benefits for host communities and regions in British Columbia and across Canada." There will be more jobs and business opportunities as well as an increase in infrastructure. The winter games will establish thousands of short term jobs in construction and numerous in the service industry. Major new sports facilities will be formed as well as major transportation projects. Tourism and the expansion of youth, women and aboriginal people is a distinguished advantage of the game. The Olympics will also improve the conservation and management of natural resources by "rehabilitating or offsetting negative impacts we cannot avoid" including the expansion of the city's light rail transit system (the SkyTrain) and improvement of the Sea to Sky Highway between Vancouver and Whistler Village. The association includes all groups affected by the activities and incorporates everyone in the decision making. The Olympics have many positive affects in British Columbia and significantly impact the social and economic regions around B.C.

http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/sustainability-and-aboriginal-parti/-/31640/toq5zj/index.html

-megs

55 Fiction

It was a cold winter's day and Johnny was out playing ice hockey on the pond. It all was fine and dandy until Johnny fell straight through the ice into the numbing, freezing cold water! His friends panicked and didn't know what to do. A pedestrian nearby luckily saw the incident and saved Johnny's life.

-megs