It’s a great time for bloggers during these Games, as people looking for information on niche topics they’re interested in have widened their search to anything on the internet. I know that I went on an obsessive hunt yesterday for more information about the problems with the Whistler luge track after the tragic death there […]

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News reports are filtering in this morning of random vandalism by Olympics protesters downtown, which somehow doesn’t surprise me. There is clearly a small element that just wants some kind of trouble, even if it’s pointless. I was at the 1,500-strong rally by Olympics opponents outside BC Place last night and found myself wedged right […]

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While Premier Gordon Campbell, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vanoc CEO John Furlong are basking in the media sunshine these days, they were specks on the horizon when the idea of bidding for the 2010 Olympics first arose.  A line of others cleared the way for them, players whose roles have been in many cases […]

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Okay, amid the chaos, a light note http://georgecarlin.tv/comedy/obama-cuts-deal-winter-olympics-moved-to-chicago/

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More than a few torch-bearers in the recent weeks months of the torch run across the country have been people who got their spots through corporate sponsors. Others have been heroes in their communities. It’s so wonderful to see that some of the people who carried the torch today or will carry it tomorrow are really […]

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I heard the cheering and shouting near my house this afternoon so I, like many others in the neighbourhood, ran out to watch the torch-runner go by. It was weepiness-inducing to see school kids and little old ladies and people being pushed in wheelchairs hustle along our NDP-voting eastside streets to wave flags and cheer […]

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As some of you may know, I got to visit Bologna this past summer to go to part of Vancity’s summer school on the co-operative culture there. Here’s a story of mine that just appeared in BCBusiness on the attraction of the Bologna model for a surprisingly wide variety of Vancouverites.

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It’s hard to focus on anything else besides the Olympics, I know, but here’s a small bulletin from the real economy of Vancouver: Port Metro Vancouver’s efforts to buy up industrial land in the region to preserve it from municipal conversions to residential.

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Mayor Gregor is about to open Vancouver’s alternative-media centre Wednesday morning, one of the buildings opposite Woodward’s on Hastings that will be run by W2 for the blogger/non-accredited media/citizen journalist crowd to post their assessment of the Games. (Look for the building with televised flames in the windows, making it look like the whole thing […]

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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. Stunning picture of the village to go with […]

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