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1 32%
The Tyee
Feb 8 Brace for the Security Games (in News):
Feb 8 Brace for the Security Games (in Opinion):
Feb 8 Time for Grits, New Dems, Greens to Make Electoral Deal (in Opinion):
2 27%
Frances Bula - Vancouver city life and politics
Feb 8 The Olympics are going to make us better: Ignatieff: In case anyone missed it, the NY Times Magazine had an all-Olympics issue and featured the two Canadians they know best to talk about the Olympics: Michael Ignatieff and Douglas Coupland. Here’s the link to Ignatieff’s column, all about how we’re going to rise to the occasion. S...
Feb 8 Olympic volunteer sends out secret messages to the world: In defiance of VANOC rules, an Olympic volunteer has decided to set up a blog and post comments about the volunteer experience. He’s sent me a link to his blog and his first post here, for anyone who is interested in following this kind of thing.   http://olympicvolunteer2010.wordpress...
Feb 7 On the eve of the Olympics: Anticipation, excitement, anger, frustration: I feel as though I’m in one of those ambitious liberal-arts programs put on by progressive colleges where, for an entire term, there’s a grand theme and all of life’s questions are filtered through that. I heard about one recently, where for the entire term they studied the lite...
3 9%
Stephen Rees's blog
Feb 8 Is the Volt a breakthrough?: The car is a new, preproduction demonstrator of GM’s latest plug-in hybrid car. That circular cover just below the mirror is where it can be plugged in to a domestic power source and be re-charged. In addition to its batteries, it also has a small conventional gasoline engine, which kicks ...
Feb 2 Hopenhagen or Nopenhagen: SFU downtown noon February 2 This was the most disappointing SFU City program session I have reported to date. This was the expected event as notified by email from the City Program. Hopenhagen or Nopenhagen? What was it like being in Copenhagen as the world focused on climate change and the con...
4 7%
Geoff Meggs - Vancouver City Councillor
Feb 7 Moon Water, Quantum Bhangra spectacular elements of cultural Olympiad: Harbhajan Mann and the Quantum Bhangra Feb. 27 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre promises a hot Punjabi ending to a Cultural Olympiad that began with the cool Taiwan dance classic Moon Water. While not the first event of the Cultural Olympiad, Moon Water by Taiwan’s Cloud Garden dance compan...
Feb 5 2010 Games close viaducts . . .: The Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts: part of Vancouver's future or relics of a project the city rejected? In honour of the today’s shutdown of the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts, for the first time since their construction in 1971, I have created this small archive of background information ...
5 7%
David Talks/The Berner Monologues
Feb 8 That Covers It: This is an interactive site. The Name of the Game is ENGAGEMENT. Don't be Shy. Tell us what you think. Post your comments.
Feb 8 There are No happy Hookers: Prostitution is on the upswing for The Games.Lorna Dueck has written a first-rate column in the Globe today.The article does not share the popular view."The vast majority of the girls I know who have exited prostitution have told of being drawn into the sex trade by coercion and controlled by vio...
6 6%
The Vancouver Observer
Feb 8 Vancouver's 'Poverty Olympics' Protest Millions Spent On Winter Games:
Feb 8 Canadian Olympic Freestyle Team Cites Own the Podium Programme For Readying Them to Compete for Gold Medals and (Hopefully) Win:
7 4%
Currents
Feb 8 Amnesty International and Strange Bedfellows: A whistleblower finally came forward (and was promptly sacked) for reporting on Amnesty International’s odd relationship with Cageprisoners, an organization that advocates on behalf of the “innocent victims” of the war on terror at Guantanamo — many of whom return to the ...
Feb 8 Why Does Woodwards Matter?: Long before the redevelopment of the Woodward’s building was completed—to offer a mix of market and social housing reinvigorating Vancouver’s oldest neighborhood—there were skeptics of the plan; not least from the potential buyers: “I got a call from a guy who was fr...
8 4%
Hummingbird604.com
Feb 8 Free concert at Robson Square by Yuca: I was roaming the streets of downtown Vancouver with Emme Rogers after the opening of the House of Switzerland, and we ended up staying at Robson Square to catch a little bit of the concert that Yuca offered as part of the Cultural Olympiad. We only stayed for a couple of songs but we were lucky ...
Feb 8 The Olympic Line Streetcar: I was invited as part of a small group of bloggers to go and test-ride the Olympic Line Streetcar, which takes people from the Olympic Village Canada Line station to Granville Island (although, in my opinion, it’s kind of ridiculous that it doesn’t go all the way to, at the very least...
9 4%
Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
Feb 8 Vancouver 2010: Concord Pacific: Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/vancouver-2010-concord-pacific.html.The Concord Pacific site at False Creek is hosting many of the Vancouver 2010 pavilions and hospitality houses. Pavilions include: Molson Canada Hockey House, IIHF Int...
Feb 8 Day Tripping: Squamish: Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/02/day-tripping-squamish.html.It’s been ages since I updated my Day Tripping series and thanks to our trek up to Squamish yesterday I can revive it with a worthy entry. Half way between Whistler and Van...
10 0%
Price Tags
Feb 7 O1 – Quiet Time: On return from Seattle this Superbowl Sunday:  the traffic light, the border quick, the city gray and quiet.  After three days away, I’m interested to see if there’s been much change – what routes are blocked, what new faces and languages are in the crowds. B...
11 0%
Beyond Robson | Vancouver blog
Feb 8 Vancouver Music News: Fan Death's New Band Members & EP, You Say Party! We Say Die! Tour Dates, Bend Sinister moving to Toronto:
12 0%
Peter Ladner
Nov 26 Climate change misinformation feeds our short-term self-destructive interests: Next month the world awaits the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Many in the business community and in our federal cabinet are eager to doubt not just on the human impact on global warming, but whether it makes economic sense to fight it, or whether we should “wait and see&...
13 0%
BetterParks for Vancouver
Jan 31 Rumble in the Jungle: A terrific event last night to help save the Bloedel Conservatory. The event held at the Conservatory was sold out and featured local wines from Lulu Island winery, and wonderful food from Crown st Caterers and Joe Forte's restaurant. Tahitian fire dancers and even the incomparable local legend D...
14 0%
CityCaucus.com - Vancouver Politics Blog
Feb 8 ChowDown Vancouver au chocolate: A Thomas Haas chocolate creation – photo: YumtasticI must admit that I’m a bit of a chocoholic and, while I try to stay on a reasonably healthy diet, I just can’t help indulging in one of life’s true pleasures. As a kid, my chocolate cravings were satisfied by gifts of che...
15 0%
CivicScene.ca
Feb 8 Taxi industry dead?: Can we expect a completely different taxi landscape after the Games? Well, maybe not yet.  But this is the press release that Black Top & Checker Cabs, the second largest company in the city, has just sent out: For Immediate Release February 8, 2010 Vancouver Taxi business “dead&...
16 0%
Vancouverite: High speed news - powered from Vancouver
Feb 8 Kamloops woman fights for her life, ex boyfriend found dead:
17 0%
Vancity Buzz
Feb 8 Contest: Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome 27 x 24 Canvas:
18 0%
MattCoolen.com: Vancouver Entertainment Guides
19 0%
Oldtown News
Feb 4 FORBIDDEN NIGHTS: 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 Vancouver politics and activism, however, rest...
20 0%
Worth the Fee to Read It
2009 Mar A New CBC: In the interests of full disclosure, I am an ex-CBC employee (1992-1994). Victor Wong, over at The Phantom Observer, has, over the past few weeks, run a series of posts polling and asking for comment on the CBC and its future. For die-hard Friends of the CBC, of course, the answer is always and...

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