Indigenous peoples+Olympics

TransCanada Pipelines is an official supplier to the 2010 Games. In 1988, the Lubicon Cree organized a boycott of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. They have fought oil & gas as well as logging industries since the 1980s.

JORGE BARRERA, Canwest News Service
Oct. 18, 2008

Updated Wed. Oct. 22 2008
CTV.ca News Staff

A growing number of voices are calling for the resignation of VANOC board member Dick Pound, following his reference to Canada being a country of "savages" only 400 years ago.

ROD MICKLEBURGH AND INGRID PERITZ
Globe and Mail, October 23, 2008

By Bob Mackin, 24 HOURS, November 6, 2008

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada wants to award an Olympic security contract without tender to a former top Ontario Mountie.

Alberta Chiefs Unanimously Support The Lubicon

The Canadian Press/CBC News
Monday, November 24, 2008

The United Nations is calling on the Canadian government to investigate why hundreds of deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women remain unsolved.

By Jon Elmer, InterPress Service, Dec 2, 2008

VANCOUVER, Dec 1 (IPS) - A coalition of indigenous elders, social justice activists and community organisers is voicing opposition to the upcoming Winter Olympics, promising to continue their protests up to and throughout the 2010 games.

'Colonial' Indian Act negates bands' authority to speak for them, Thevarge and Louie say

David Burke dburke@whistlerquestion.com
January 29, 2009

While the BC government proclaims the province to be the 'best place on earth' and have adopted this slogan for the tourism industry, Native peoples continue to live in 'Third World' conditions even as we approach the 1-year countdown to the 2010 Olympics.