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A popular destination with tourists, the arts and recreation centre has embraced the Games, hosting many of the Cultural Olympiad events such as that of Tanya Tagaq, an Inuit throat singing with orchestral and contemporary influences. It has also created a community ‘living room’ with big television screens allowing people to come together to enjoy the sports.
However Diana Vandeveen, Roundhouse programme co-ordinator, declares she was shocked when ten of her staff had to be laid off a week before the Olympics started due to money diverted to finance the Games.
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The programming of the Roundhouse has been substantially reduced and the community centre had to rent their space to Casa Italia, the Italian House, for the eight weeks of competitions. The Roundhouse is not the only arts establishment whose funds were reduced in the eve of the Winter Games. Last year in September, members and supporters of the arts community in Vancouver against the cuts at the grounds of the .
With Montreal finishing to pay its 1976 Games debt only last year, questions over the faith of Vancouver’s community projects remain open.
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Costs for the athletes village are being hidden in other budgets and may never be revealed to the public, the 2010 Games Watchdog Committee said yesterday.
“The city is laying out a bag of money,” said watchdog Chris Shaw
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]]>The Sunday Times, citing figures obtained ahead of the official budget announcement by the British government, said the cost of building the Olympic Park had risen to 5.1 billion pounds (US$10 billion; euro7.7 billion)….
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A powerful committee of MPs will accuse the Treasury tomorrow of adding £2bn to the cost of the Olympics with its overcautious approach to funding the 2012 games.The Labour-controlled culture select committee will side with Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, in what has turned into a bitter row over the best approach to pay for the event.
Costs have already risen due to a variety of pressures including more intense security, construction inflation and an unexpected Treasury ruling that the Olympics Development Authority must pay VAT……
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Lloyds TSB: backing London 2012
LONDON – Lloyds TSB is set to become the first brand to sign up as a top-tier sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic Games in a deal worth £80m….
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Sunday November 19, 2006
The Observer <http://www.observer.co.uk>
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City Hall, Ken Livingstone’s egg-shaped headquarters in the shadow of Tower Bridge, hosted many of the meetings, press conferences and receptions that paved the way for London’s unexpected but euphoric victory last year in the race to stage the 2012 Olympics. Last Wednesday morning it was the scene of a much more sombre and fractious gathering that will be remembered as the moment when the optimism surrounding that triumph gave way to the complicated and expensive reality of bringing the world’s greatest sporting event to Britain….
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