From David Beers, Editor, The Tyee.ca

Hi David

Great post, with the usual take no prisoners Berner thrust.

But it's not true no other media have been on this. At The Tyee, for example, I believe I got the ball rolling on this scoop by reporting Ladner's admission that city hall was underwriting a 'struggling' Olympic village:

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Housing/2008/10/23/VanHomelessnessDebateReport/

and then our reporter Geoff Demibicki followed up with this:

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Labour-Industry/2008/10/27/endowment-fund-athletes-village/

The Globe's Gary Mason got the (as yet unidentified) source that allowed his editor to go with his piece without a single named source. But city hall has stonewalled all other attempts, I can assure you.