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: Beyond Robson

As the Olympics near, there is a general dread in the air regarding how the heck we Vancouverites are going to get from A to B when the crowds hit. Workers citywide are fearing hyper-extended commute times, and though no one really knows which roads ...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

As the Olympics near, there is a general dread in the air regarding how the heck we Vancouverites are going to get from A to B when the crowds hit. Workers citywide are fearing hyper-extended commute times, and though no one really knows which roads ...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

On the eve of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, publishing houses are crossing their fingers that books about the host city will fly of the shelves as souvenirs, guides and walks down memory lane. For an urban centre, Vancouver ...

topics: coffee, olympics, vancouver-2010

aggregated from: Oldtown News

Oldtown NewsVancouver, BCFORBIDDEN NIGHTSAs many of my readers are aware since I opened an edgier business called Queens Cross in July 2009, this has been keeping me quite busy and I haven't been blogging as much as I would like. I miss the thrust of...

topics: councillor, olympics, politics, whistler

aggregated from: Vancouverite

When I first hear that during the games there would be some sort of fun, French, temporary hangout on Granville Island I was intrigued. Now combine this disappointing menu with the 1.8km fail that is the street car experiment and I'm pretty sure I ca...

topics: cheese, granville-island, menu, olympics, salmon

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

We have been mulling it over and looking at various options, and the plan is to update our little blog this month. For most, it will be adjusting to the graphic changes that will make the site look profoundly different that will take some getting us...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Who Are the 2010 Protesters? No no you are not supposed to ask that! That's like asking who are these Al Qaida people? . No, it is much better that they remain bandana-clad anarchist thugs.In what was surely unintentional, Vancity Buzz has made one ...

topics: olympics, strike

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

In this edition: We Are The City, The Left, and Bend Sinister the top three finalists of the Peak Performance Project, a new futuristic video by Sex With Strangers, and Said The Whale's album on vinyl. Plus: live video of Fake Shark-Real Zombie and ...

topics: concert, olympics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Vancouver's Olympics head for disaster. Haddow says what I've been saying forever, and that is that VANOC and colluding government did everything in its power to lend credence to every critic of the games by doing everything badly and under a veil of...

topics: olympics, politician, vanoc