MY NEW CITY

[...] this admission: I was wrong. In 2003, there was a referendum in the city of Vancouver asking, "Do you support or do you oppose the City of Vancouver's participation in hosting the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games?" Approximately half of the city turned out to vote, and 64 per cent of Vancouverites were in favour. A magnificent SkyTrain line did get built from the airport to downtown, and a few other muchneeded improvements were made, but absolutely nothing was done in the Downtown Eastside, and the cadre responsible for the Games' organization, VANOC, behaved in a seemingly inept and callous way toward those who disagreed with them, and the citizens of the city in general.