Just back from a jaunt through the motherland. Did I miss anything? Oh, right. That.
First, the Big Owe. Now, it seems we’re due for an earthquake.
Originally budgeted to cost a relatively meagre $134-million, the tab for Montreal’s Olympic stadium ballooned to over $1.5-billion thanks to construction delays, repairs and every calamity imaginable. Now, the city’s Olympic Installations Board wants to buy yet another roof for it. They just couldn’t stand the thought of having finally paid the thing off, I guess.