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City Announces Paralympic Torchbearers and Schedule of March 10-12 Relay

City Hall
Press Release
Eight individuals representing the City of Vancouver will take part in the Paralympic Torch Relay which began in Ottawa last week and will culminate in the lighting of the Paralympic Cauldron at BC...
Welcome

All Are Friends and Welcome Here

Brad Henderson
As is the customs of all First Nations people, “I bid you all welcome” to the first posting of the First Nations blog entitled Welcome. Firstly, I wish to thank founding editor-in-chief Linda...
IndieVan

Shooting Stars Foundation's Jazzilla as Prelude to the Oscars

John Tanner
What does this man's work have to do with the Oscars?
The Cultural Olympiad

Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough

Cultural Olympiad
Cultural Olympiad continues during the Paralympic Games with daring dance, thoughtful theatre and awesome art.
Parks

Vancouver Park Board Celebrates the Coming of the Paralympic Games

Sarah Blyth
I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 community happenings event yesterday at Kitsilano Community Centre. It was a fun, free, family event held to celebrate the recent Winter Olympics and the...
The Savvy Vegetarian

A Recipe for the Big Boys of the Four-Man Bobsled

Charles Macurdy
These baked potato chips are a great alternative to the bagged variety.

All That Glitters is Not Gold at the Academy Awards

Television
Robyn Ludwig
Ben Stiller, presenting the Best Costume award at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday.

Stephen Harper, the Son Who Commands, Commanded Little Respect for Anthem Turnaround

The Gender Files
Ben Milne
I’ve been away the past two weeks, working in China, so I only got to hear about the Conservatives’ decision to review the Canadian national anthem after they changed their minds. To think that I was...

International Women’s Day: “We Hold up Half the Sky”

News
Kathie Wallace
Kat Norris, Coast Salish, Lyackson First Nation and Nez Perce, founder of Indigenous Action Movement, and survivor of Kuper Island Residential School

The Drowning Girls’ Watery Graves

Beth Graham
Cultural Olympiad
Wooed, married and murdered by one man, three brides rise from the dead to tell all.

On Eve of International Women's Day Kathryn Bigelow Becomes First Woman Ever to Win Oscar for Best Director

Film
Linda Solomon
Finally, with Kathryn Bigelow, a woman takes the top award in directing. It's about time.

What Sandra Bullock Said About Her Mother at the Oscars

Film
Linda Solomon
Sandra Bullock, accepting an Oscar for Best Actress,  took advantage of her  "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to express gratefulness to the people who had contributed to her success...

CTV’s New Cop Show Misses The Mark

Television
Robyn Ludwig

Fighting the Olympic Blues with The Oscar Wildes and Pre-Oscar Buzz

Film
Tracy Wren

The Final Installment of Olympic Recipes Goes Out to the Gold Medal-Winning Men's Hockey Team

The Savvy Vegetarian
Charles Macurdy

Eight Billion Dollars Got Canadians High on the Olympics. Was it Money Well Spent?

Olympics Retort
Chris Shaw

Grounded TV Talks to BCCLA's David Eby About Protests During the Vancouver 2010 Games

Overheard at the Olympics
Linda Solomon