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Vancouver Sun Blog: Lagging Olympic knowledge in Eastern Canada
Poll: "Can you please tell me where the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in the year 2010?” --- While B.C. respondents ranked high, the rest of the country didn’t – especially in Quebec, which has been the focus of a lot of attention from VANOC, the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Commitee...
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Canada needs help with geography
100% Injury Rate — ... Winter Olympics are going to be. They're going to be in Vancouver. But don't worry my stupid fellow Americans, the Canadians aren't much better than us when posed with the same question. in June, the federal government commissioned Decima Research to ask this unaided question to Canadians: “Can you please tell me where the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in the year 2010?” And the results, outside of British Columbia where Vancouver is located, were hilarious. In Alberta 68% of people knew the answer was Vancouver, in ...

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