iN DISCUSSION: The funny thing about the Winter Olympics

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Are you into the Winter Olympics?

The Winter Olympics are funny.

It’s like they didn’t have enough sports to make it a thing so they just started making stuff up. 

Skiing, skating, sure. Then they just… started hurling people down icy mountains? Face first, feet first. Little cars in groups of two or four. Add a little risk of death to keep the cheers up.

It needn’t make sense to me to be delightful but I’m really only here for the hockey. Kinda hoping for a Denmark-US game personally, but I’ll need a Canada-US game in both genders, please.

Are you into the Olympics at all? What are you watching for? Email me at mjones@infonews.ca.

Mj

Marshall Jones

Managing Editor

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Tara Armstrong Recall Countdown

Tara Armstrong is currently the MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. She rode the coattails of the BC Conservative Party, got elected, then rejected and left the party to serve as an Independent within weeks because the Conservatives were too left wing. Now she gets to spout moronic, hateful rhetoric and claim that her riding supports her.

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