A grevious omission at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games opening ceremonies last Friday night was the lack of bagpipes, I mean surely. They are normally seen at just about any large public ceremony in my native Canuckistan, and additionally are an important cultural element among the founding peoples, normally designated as First Nations (ie, native peoples), the British and the French. I know the opening ceremonies theme was 'native peoples' but in my experience there are few if any groups that intermixed with the northern tribes as much as the Scots did and these games are taking place in BRITISH Columbia!