Are you in Vancouver for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games? Need to purchase a Made in Canada keepsake? Consider these fine stores with locally designed clothing and jewelry: Shop Cocoon – located at Cambie and 17th Avenue, nearby the Athletes Village Favourite Gift Shop – located in Londsdale Key (where you catch the bus [...]
Are you coming to Vancouver for the Olympics? If you have an unlocked GSM phone, you might want to rent a local sim card. Here is a local site that does SIM Card Rentals. That way you can avoid expensive roaming charges. They deliver to Vancouver hotels.
The Vancouver Winter Olympics begins in two days. “Canada Place (pictured),” a national icon representing the Vancouver port known for its sail-like roofs, stays in harmony with the luminous five Olympic rings. Inside Canada Place is the Olympic Main Press Center. Some 5,500 athletes and coaching staff from 80 countries will compete in 15 events [...]
Walter Francl We are all responsible for what we consume and all that we do not consume, and what we leave to future generations. Source: Walter Francl Today the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) received the Excellence for Green Building award from the Globe Foundation and the World Green [...]
Playing sports taught me that none of us can thrive alone; we need a team. Source: Doug Mitchell About 40 years ago, as a young law student and competitive athlete at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Doug Mitchell learned many of the principles that would guide him through his life as a husband, father, lawyer [...]
The Olympic Games unite the world. No matter what country we’re watching them from, we all comprehend both the joy and sadness that come with sport. It’s heard in the roaring cheers from the crowd, seen in the waving of a nation’s flag or felt with tears shed in the sting of defeat. Sport serves [...]
Vancouver, BC — Celebrated Canadian authors Douglas Coupland and Roch Carrier are among the major contributors to the Vancouver 2010 Official Souvenir Program, which goes on sale this week across Canada. Designed as a keepsake for Canadians and visiting spectators, the program — in both English and French editions — contains a compelling mix of [...]
As you may already know, the Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver, BC, during February 2010. Vancouver/Whistler will be host to the Olympic and Paralympics games, and will be ready to showcase its entertaining attractions. For all the visitors planning to attend these games, here are some of Vancouver’s most popular places to [...]
Spectators experience up-close viewing at largest curling venue in Winter Games history Vancouver, BC –The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) successfully completed its operational testing today at the curling sport event at the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre—the 108,000-square-foot facility that will seat approximately 5,000 spectators during the Olympic and [...]
Flash forward to January of 2010: Where will your interests take you? Cultural Olympiad 2010, presented by Bell, offers excitement for each of those fast-approaching days and nights. The festival has just announced 35 additional projects for the arts and culture extravaganza, which begins January 22, 2010 and continues throughout the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and [...]
