Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Jul 28, 2026
· 5 min read
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Hanes: Will there ever be an end to the spending on the Big O?
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Hanes: Will there ever be an end to the spending on the Big O?
Montrealers are stuck with the Olympic Stadium. But we need more than a monument to waste and incompetence.
The Olympic Stadium has been a money pit many Montrealers love to hate. (John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette)
By
Allison Hanes
July 28, 2026 at 5:30 a.m.
As Montreal reflects back on the 1976 Olympics, held 50 years ago this summer, one enormous hunk of the Games’ legacy continues to generate headlines — and punchlines — over its legendary flaws and money-sucking voracity.
Yes, the Olympic Stadium is the (white) el…
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