The Montreal Olympics: a party with an enormous hangover

The Olympic Stadium is undergoing renovations to its roof and interior, costing Quebec taxpayers more than a billion dollars. Again.

Montreal’s Olympic Stadium is too far from downtown, is cavernous, and has terrible sightlines. It is the whitest of white elephants, writes Andrew Caddell. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Vlasta Juricek

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 5, 2026

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I have a collection of old newspapers, including the headlines of the end of the Second World War, the 1969 moon landing, and 9/11. Among the collection is the Montreal Gazette headline story from January 1973 in which then-mayor Jean Dra...

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