Beyond the area around Robson Square and Granville Street, it was business as unusual---unusually slow, except for the occasional exception like The Umbrella Shop on Granville Island.
Things get broken—limbs, hearts, hope, minds, promises—it’s all really the same, but of course we can’t have an Olympics for everything. Can we? Imagine a broken-hearted Olympics for those who’ve loved and lost. What would they compete at? Getting out of bed every day, Sisyphus-like, and facing another day?
Commentary
Kevin Liminsang
The Paralympic Games deserve an equal amount of public attention. Why so much apathy?
Betty and Rolly Fox, parents of Terry Fox, carry the torch into opening ceremonies for the 2010 Paralympic Games.
Solomon Post
Linda Solomon
Prime Minister Stephen Harper posed for photos yesterday before the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Paralympic Games. Here he is shown with Sir Philip Craven, President of the...
The City will sod and restore hills in an effort to bring David Lam Park back to its pre-Olympic state.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” I need to remember this because I’ve just read the most unbelievable, non-apologetic...
Comfort vs Change
Christabel Shaler
Democracy Now's Aaron Maté discusses his report on the Olympics, titled "In the Shadow of the Olympic Flame: A Report from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the Poorest Neighbourhood in...
We live in the age of cynicism. And there are a lot of things in this world to be cynical about. But Vancouver's Olympics should not be one of them.
It can't be easy being Marie-Philip Poulin. Female athletes can't just be. Not without so many of us passing judgement on their choices, actions and ultimately, their legitimacy....
On the last day of the Olympics, in the heart of downtown Vancouver, an honouring ceremony was held for Native elder and activist Harriet Nahanee, who died after serving jail time for her role in the...
Thank God for Canada's social safety net...
Overheard at the Olympics
Linda Solomon
Pandemonium followed Canada's win of the Olympic men's hockey game final yesterday, but it never spilled over into the riot it could have become.
This worker in this photograph was taking down an Olympics security fence around Trout Lake. The southwest corner of Trout Lake park has been inaccessible since before the Olympics.
Wooooo! Honk honk honk! Yeahhhhhhhhhhh! Even 20 minutes after Canada beat the U.S. 3 – 2 in overtime – the freaking out continued. On Twitter, a woman reported her husband's tears were dripping into his beer.
Photography
Kathie Wallace
Fans Celebrating Down Main Street in Vancouver after Team Canada beat the USA in Men's ice hockey to end the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Crosby's game-winning overtime goal resulted in Canada breaking the all-time record for gold medals for any country in the world...Oh Ca-na-da!
Overheard at the Olympics
Linda Solomon
The mistakes of the Opening Ceremony seemed irrelevant after 14 gold medals, and tonight's Closing Ceremonies were about celebration and fun.
Watching hockey at the RIO Theatre off Commercial Drive was a fun and free alternative to going to a pub.
Overheard at the Olympics
Linda Solomon
A spectacular fireworks marked the last night of two weeks of fireworks in Vancouver. In the Canada Line at Roundhouse/Yaletown, two women sang "Oh, Canada." A group of guys...
Overheard at the Olympics
Linda Solomon
Spirits were high and the music was great last night at BC Place. Story in photos.
