Canada

The Olympics Dawned Dept: Well, look at it this way, Canada; you've still got the mascots, according to Vancouver Sun. And so as the second week of the Olympics dawned, the Brits got so downright cocky that you worried they might start colonizing again. Gold medal after gold medal, anthem after anthem, front page after front page. If you ever wanted to see a picture of a British heptathlete in a crown in the papers, this was the week for you and bad news, Canada. Or rather, bad news to those in Canada still sharpening their knives, murder in their eye, for how the British treated Canada during the 2010 Olympics. They called it the Worst Games Ever! They made fun of our weather! Oh, it would serve them right if their vaunted Olympics turned into a vast shambolic comedy show, full of inept athletes and wandering buses and insane creepy one-eyed surveillance-camera mascots. But we're past the midway point now, and Britain is getting pretty enthusiastic about this whole enterprise. Their athletes are brilliant. Their transportation networks, even in the complexity of London, are working fine. The venues are full enough, the security is fine, and Andy Murray won at Wimbledon. He didn't win Wimbledon, but it seemed close enough. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.