Did anyone go to this? I heard about it on Redeye (I've been listening to lots of podcasts lately) but I didn't see anything about it on babble.
According to one of the organizers, it was pretty great - they had events like "skating around poverty" and some kind of wrestling event (I forget the name of it).
Anyhow, if you're interested in hearing about it:
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2009-poverty-olympics
I'd be interested in hearing from people who were there! It's such a great idea.
What I really liked is that they're going to make this an annual event - and in 2010, if the BC government doesn't start coughing up money for housing, they're going to hold it during the 2010 Winter Olympics in order to try to get international coverage!