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Crosby headlines Olympic camp roster
Sidney Crosby and the Staal brothers headline Hockey Canada’s invitees to its Olympic orientation camp set for the end of the summer in Calgary.
CBC Sports July 3, 2009

Canada opens men’s hoops with win at World University Games
Canada opened the men’s basketball tournament with a win Thursday at the World University Games while both the men’s and women’s soccer squads also posted victories.
Canadian Press July 3, 2009

Canada faces tough field at soccer’s Gold Cup
Starving for international matches, Canada’s men’s soccer team will find out where it stands when it opens the Gold Cup on Friday in Carson, Calif.
Canwest July 3, 2009

Scotland leads Canadian cricket squad after opening day of Intercontinental Cup
Canadian Press July 3, 2009

Women’s volleyball team defeats Mexico at Pan Am Cup
Canadian Press July 3, 2009

Lamaze back in the saddle at Spruce Meadows
Canadian Press July 2, 2009

A win in pool, a loss on basketball court for Canada at University Games
Canadian Press July 2, 2009

Speedo considers allowing sponsored athletes to use rival swim suits
Associated Press July 1, 2009

Men’s soccer team blanks Guatemala
Canadian Press July 1, 2009

Canada’s soccer teams open World University Games with losses
Canadian Press July 1, 2009

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Another major Ottawa blunder on the Olympics
By Miro Cernetig
Vancouver Sun

Hello, Stephen Harper, are you out there? Do you know your government may be blowing a big part of our Olympic opportunity to market this city, province and Canada to the world?

An international conference, the Forbes CEO Forum, which would have brought the world’s top CEOs and some of its wealthiest investors to the West Coast just days before the 2010 Winter Games opening, has been scuttled by your bureaucrats to save $1 million US.

But here’s the latest, troubling news: Your federal servants, searching for savings, still won’t commit to building a Canada pavilion at the Games. They are privately saying they’re considering the idea, which also means something else: After years of planning, they might not build a national pavilion at all.

That would be a major blunder.

The federal government’s grasp of how to leverage the Olympics to market our country leaves something to be desired.

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