They're not just the hottest tickets in town. They rank among the hottest tickets on the planet -- seats for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, especially the opening and closing ceremonies.

Fifteen hundred of these tickets are set aside for MPs, senators and anyone else the government wants to give them to. Ordinary Canadians -- except for the fortunate people who were able to buy them in an on-line lottery -- are out of luck because the available tickets are now sold out.