Nearly six years after plans to replace the roof of the iconic Olympic Stadium were announced, those plans are changing drastically and, as a result, the cost of the work is expected to balloon.
In 2017, the Quebec government under former premier Philippe Couillard approved a $250-million budget for a new roof. It was supposed to be installed by the end of 2022 but that timeline has since been pushed back several times and there’s been no real end in sight to the Big O roof saga.
On Wednesday, things got even more complicated.
The provincial agency that manages the Olympic Park announced that it cancelled the call for tenders for the
