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Protests should be limited Friday when more than 60,000 people assemble at BC Place Stadium for the first indoor Opening Ceremony – the culmination of a 106-day Olympic torch relay. No word on whether the red-gloved, cartoon kangaroo in the athletes’ village that drew the ire of the International Olympic Committee will be part of the festivities.
Still, many Canadians are angered over a 17-day Olympics projected to cost $5.6 billion. Vancouver officials forecast roughly $4 billion in benefits from hosting the Olympics – a small fortune, some argue, considering $1.9 billion spent on a light rail line, $825 million on a media center, $748 million on a highway and $580 million on venues.
And part of a $1.75 billion operating budget includes more than $900 million on security, topping the original estimate by about $725 million. That presumably doesn’t count extra money spent policing Vancouver’s salty Downtown Eastside, not a tourist destination for 350,000 visitors, unless they want to hang with homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes.

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The bonuses, he concedes with a smile, have
nothing to do with his skill as a high school
teacher. Over the years, whenever workers
would strike, they would in some cases get a
bonus, he said, as he sat in a local union
office here.
For decades, both conservative and socialist
governments in Greece have rewarded the
demands of public sector unions with higher
pay and more jobs.
In 2009, striking farmers were paid 400
million euros by the government and this
year they are back again, having briefly
closed Greeces border with Bulgaria.
Protesting dockworkers extracted big payouts
from the government in November. And the
countrys tax collectors went on strike on
Thursday even though their services are needed
more than ever.
Striking is a bit of a national sport in
Greece. Last month, the countrys unionized
prostitutes took to the streets, protesting
unlicensed competition from Russian and
Eastern European immigrants.

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… People view these welfare polices as acquired rights,” said Jordi Gal, an economist who leads the Centre for Research in International Economics in Barcelona. ”If the Spanish government were to stop paying the fees for students at universities or any move in that direction, there would be a major social uprising.”
Greece, for example, most recently promised certain corrective measures aimed at solving the crisis. They include a public salary freeze, an increase in petrol taxes, and a hike in the retirement age. However the moves have upset the labour unions more than they have assuaged market sentiment. How seriously upset are workers and certain groups in the affected countries? Well, never mind the potentially raging Spanish students; now, even the prostitutes of Greece have taken to…strike action as Greece grapples with its debt.

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Lisa Berry as Mayme and Raven Dauda as Esther in Intimate Apparel, now playing at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Photo by David Hou.
THEATRE: It’s all about love this week—love and the funny/depressing/sexy/kinky stuff that goes with it. Canstage’s latest production includes at least one of those things. Intimate Apparel follows Esther, an African-American seamstress whose financial independence depends upon the elegant corsets and other undergarments she sews for socialites and prostitutes. Amid the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, Esther dreams of opening her own boutique, moves to New York City, and falls for a man halfway around the world. Intimate Apparel was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, and has won several awards, including the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, and the Canadian production won the 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design. Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East), 8 p.m., $20–64.

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