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Halifax Drops the Games

 
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willneverteachagain



Joined: 17 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:02 pm    Post subject: Halifax Drops the Games Reply with quote

Halifax and NS should be ashamed of themselves for backing out on the 2014 games. Im ashamed to have been born and raised there.
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

way to go halifax! Olympics are such an overblown investment.
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willneverteachagain



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rolling Eyes

wrong games
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Octavius Hite



Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good for them, I would love to see the games come to Canada but for a city of 350,000 and a province of 1,000,000 to pay for a 1.7 Billion + games is just crazy. There was no way that little halifax could pay for that.

Plus we all know that the reason they wanted the games was so they could build that stupid stadium so they could tyry and get a CFL team. Total BS. If you can't build a stadium with private money you shouldn't be building it.
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jinju



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Poor halifax.

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willneverteachagain



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i know and with the call center (the only companies who hire in NS) only paying $9 per hour, how the hell can halifax support a CFL team? they would have folded in 1 season.

the reason im disappointed is because they won the bid, and now backed out
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SarcasmKills



Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

willneverteachagain wrote:
i know and with the call center (the only companies who hire in NS) only paying $9 per hour, how the hell can halifax support a CFL team? they would have folded in 1 season.

the reason im disappointed is because they won the bid, and now backed out


Good for them... better to think for the long term than for temporary glory.. numbers (as usual) were much higher than anticipated so they actually did the smart thing by backing out...

Too bad more cities didn't do the same...
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willneverteachagain



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well they made themselves look stupid since they put all that money into winning the bid. I dont like the mayor anyways, he's so fake
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Octavius Hite



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, they really pisse*d away 13+ million dollars on the bid. The city has real problems in every area, they should never even have dreamed of having these games.
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