aggregated from: Beyond Robson

There are the Vancouver Olympics, and there are the Vancouver Anti-Olympics. In this divided city we have two torches and two sets of mascots running around town. With days to go before the opening of the 2010 Olympic Games, this Saturday Vancouver h...

topics: downtown, downtown-eastside, olympic-games, olympics

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Photo: Les Baszo, PNGCan I just say that the idea that we are protecting the Olympic Games Venues with airport style security and people off the street without much training does not leave me feeling all that safe. Especially when it appears that t...

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Headline of the day, so far from Gawker: Totemic Rodent's Handlers Decree Frigid Misery Upon a Weary Nation. I mean, I guess this makes sense since Global Warming is dead and all. Which makes sense since there is no winter here for the Olympic Ga...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Whistler lenders move to foreclose. So that's just some sort of paperwork thing right, it won't actually affect the games or anything, right? Uh, no, not exactly, there is a chance the games could be moved. MOVED! Because there is no way the Province...

topics: olympic-games, vanoc, whistler

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Worst day of the year?It's always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. For many native leaders, it's easier to rail against the government as the source of all that ails first nations people . And for most media its been super easy to ...

topics: musicians, olympic-games, olympics, park, show

aggregated from: Oldtown News

Oldtown NewsVancouver, BC TRANNY TERMINOLOGYMany folks have been asking me about various terms that are used regarding transsexual and transgender people and so I's sharing with you some of the most common terms.Transexual or correctly spelled with 2...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Police clear officer in shooting of homeless man. Because, as gleened from nearby surveillance cameras but not the cell-phone video that the police definitely did not delete, he was asking for it. Literally. Still no word on why police in Vancouver ...

topics: championships, olympic-games

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HK s response to Harper s China visit (released to CIV on Dec 6):Andrew Work of Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HKCanadians doing business in China hold similar values to Canadians in Canada. Where there may be a diffe...

topics: business, economy, investment, olympic-games, premier

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

A story this week at theTyee.ca does a little arithmetic and concludes that the economic benefits of the Olympics will be pretty slim.More to the point, about 6.7 billion dollars less than promised by the Campbell Liberals.The government was using th...

topics: liberals, ndp, olympic-games, olympics

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

John Furlong, chief executive officer of the Vancouver Organizing Committee said, As it nears its final destination, we want everyone to share the pride and surprise of the moment and as the identity of the final torch bearer is revealed. The host ...

topics: john-furlong, olympic-games, vancouver-2010