Item: News Digest for February 18, 2010
UBC PhD student fired from Olympic job:
Olympic security officials have revoked the accreditation of a UBC PhD student 11 days into his new job at the Richmond Olympic Oval because of his relationship to anti-Olympic activist. Darryl Bannon worked for Dr. Chris Shaw, a UBC professor and ophthalmologist at the Vancouver General Hospital, and well-known anti-Olympics activist. After an RCMP interview, Bannon was labelled a security risk, and subsequently fired.