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VANCOUVER (CP) _ An anti-poverty protester who threatened to
evict members of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games organizing
committee from their homes and offices has been arrested.
Vancouver Police Department spokesman Tim Fanning says Saturday's
arrest of David Cunningham was made so he could be issued a peace
bond to stay away from members of the organizing committee.
Last week, Cunningham spoke about individual VANOC members during
a protest outside the organizing committee's building while a ...
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The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver can't come fast enough for short-track speed skater Amanda Overland.
``I'm anxious already and the way our seasons go, they fly by so fast, I look at it that it's not that far away,'' the native of Kitchener, Ont., said Thursday. ``And come that Olympic year, we're skating earlier because the trials are earlier, we have to ready.
``It's right there for me, especially ...
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A month after chipping in an extra $55 million to the Vancouver Olympics' stretched construction budget, Ottawa has ordered an audit of the 2010 Games organizing committee to see how federal tax dollars are being spent.
A contract tender was posted quietly at the beginning of this week by Department of Canadian Heritage, which handles the federal contribution to the Games, including $290 million for building Olympic venues.
The call ...
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A report says the Department of Canadian Heritage is hiring an auditor to check over the books of the Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee (VANOC).
The report on CBC Radio says a call for tenders was issued to provide the federal department with assurances about VANOC management's preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The report says the audit will check management controls, risk-management frameworks and the overall governance structure.
VANOC spokeswoman ...
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A raccoon, a dachshund, a few bears and several genderless, unspecific species have done the job in the past and now it's time for something to do it for Vancouver.
The Olympic mascot will grace countless advertisements, publications, websites, knick-knacks and stuffed toys and will generate much debate among those who love it and those who hate it.
But someone has to design it first and the organizers of the ...
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A group opposed to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler says it's time for another referendum on whether to hold the games.
Chris Shaw of Olympic Watch says there have been too many broken promises and the games are already so far over budget that British Columbians should cut their losses.
He says there has not been a full accounting of the costs and government promises to ensure that ...
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A non-profit group in Vancouver says homelessness is about to get much worse unless government takes immediate action leading up to the 2010 Olympics.
The Pivot Legal Society released a report Thursday that involved taking affidavits from 160 residents of Vancouver's ravaged Downtown Eastside.
Pivot spokesman David Eby says visitors to the Winter Games may find an epidemic of poverty, with at least three times the number of homeless people ...
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The Canadian Snowboard Federation's plans to hold a World Cup half-pipe event in Calgary in March is just one of the competitions Canada Olympic Park hopes to attract after spending money to upgrade and expand its facilities.
Improvements worth $3 million are being done to the venue, on Calgary's western outskirts, in hopes of attracting both World Cup freestyle (both moguls and aerials) and women's Alpine slalom events. The money ...
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