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Vancouver pavilion opens at Expo 2010

A pavilion showcasing Vancouver's development after Expo 86 opened at Shanghai's Expo 2010 on Sunday, with Premier Gordon Campbell and Treasury Board president Stockwell Day presiding. The three-storey wood and glass Vancouver pa [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

BC Hydro names Vancouver Olympics exec as CEO

Dave Cobb, who helped organize the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, has been named chief executive and president of British Columbia’s provincially owned electrical utility, BC Hydro said Tuesday. Cobb, 47, was most recently depu [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Olympic spirit will boost Canucks, fans say

Vancouver Canucks fans are predicting the Olympic fever that swept Canada to hockey gold will help carry the Canucks to the Stanley Cup. Fans gathered at a Surrey pub Wednesday for Game 3 between Vancouver and the Chicago Blackhawks were [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

We must rehabilitate for Vancouver Kovalchuk

New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk believes the hockey World Championship is a great chance for Russia to rehabilitate for their failure at the Vancouver Olympics.Kovalchuk got a chance to appear. At the tournament in Germany a [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Vancouver City Hall's Olympic-sized payback

Moderate Vancouver voters who supported the Vision Vancouver Party as a fresh alternative to the Coalition of Progressive Electors during the last civic election should now be feeling a healthy dose of betrayal as Mayor Gregor Robertson [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Olympic gold medallists Moir, Virtue vow to keep skating

Scott Moir is funny, and he knows it. He also knows how to play the media game. When he is asked about the Olympic gold medal he won in Vancouver with Tessa Virtue, he recognizes an opportunity to let his funny bone out. “ [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Our trip to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games

I love my job. Honestly, how many people can say that? One of the main reasons I love what I do is that every two years, as an event producer, I get to be in the midst of the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, The Olympic Ga [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Annual ice show to mirror Olympic spirit

The Olympics aren't quite finished this year at the Lou and Gib Reese Ice Arena.For those who miss the scrape of skates against the ice and the baffling twirls, jumps and footwork that rise to popularity during each Winter Games, the [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Speedskater Ohno leads US Olympians to White House

Weather confounded the US Winter Olympic team one more time on Wednesday as short-track speed skating star Apolo Anton Ohno led teammates. And Paralympians to the White House. President Barack Obama had planned an outdoor ceremony on [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Olympic torch nears final destination

Y ou could say it's all downhill from here. A parade of former Olympians took their turns with the torch Friday as the flame neared its final destination, reaching Whistler, one of the host sites for the 2010 Games. "For Whi [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Vancouver's bill for 2010 Olympics, Paralympics is $553.1 mi...

Olympics Bill doesn't include cost of taking over $1 billion Olympic Village project: Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year cost Vancouver, B.C., slightly less than it takes to run the city itself for an entire year. A r [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics costs estimated at $534 million

A new Vancouver city council report suggests the city’s cost of hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics was $534 million. But the report, which goes to council Tuesday, includes a soup-to-nuts list of everything, including many civic [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Olympic banner proceeds earmarked for quake relief in Haiti

There are a lot of souvenir Olympic red mittens out there -- but authentic Vancouver 2010 Olympic banners are a far rarer commodity quietly being snapped up. The largest number of banners, approximately 6,400, were flown in Vancouver. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

22 people make refugee claims after Vancouver Olympics

Twenty-two people who came to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics have made refugee claims in Canada, seven of them members of the "Olympic family." The figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada show the claimants came [...]