The business of the Olympics

The upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver was the focus of a Redeye special on October 18. From that show, we bring you a variety of different perspectives on the Olympics from housing to security to resistance.

Corporations stand to make billions of dollars from the Olympic Games but the profits won't trickle down to the citizens of Vancouver.

VANOC has repeatedly turned down requests to create a fund that would make the 2010 Olympics the first socially-sustainable Games.

Am Johal has been pushing for the involvement of civil society in the Games since the bid went in. He a member of the Olympic watchdog group, the Impact on Community Coalition.

Part 6 of a 6-part series

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