Vancouver built the $36 million Creekside Community Recreation Centre hoping it would be a hub for the new Olympic Village community. One year later, the building is open, but not enough residents are using it. “It’s definitely been a challenge and it’s been frustrating,” said Brenda Tang, the centre’s marketing coordinator. “We just don’t have the [...]
Six months ago Jenny Cho did not know how to sew. Now, she is a contractor for a Vancouver sewing co-op, Common Thread, comprised of mostly marginalized women who have been re-purposing 2010 Olympic banners into tote bags and book covers. Working with Common thread makes Cho feel good and useful, she said, adding “it helps me [...]
A Vancouver sports bar has reinvented itself as a drinking hole for niche sports fans in an effort to drum up new business. Over the past few weeks, the Sin Bin Sports Grill in Southeast False Creek has been drawing in many new customers by showing live matches from the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New [...]
One person’s street art is another’s nuisance. Katie Dangerfield, Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson look at how new limits on the amount and type of street art allowed during the 2010 Winter Olympics are making it difficult for artists. gullivers travels movie wikipedia
When Anoop Singh, 36, entered the taxi business seven years ago, he was making 15 trips to and from Vancouver’s YVR airport per day. Now, he works double shifts and is lucky to make eight. “This was a sanctuary at one time,” said Singh. “You could make some decent cash and look after your rent [...]
Hockey enthusiasts in southeast Vancouver are facing a shortage of ice despite the construction of two new rink facilities in preparation of the 2010 Olympic Games. From January 15, the newly built rink at Killarney will be used solely for the Olympics. It will host short track speed skating training sessions throughout the Games, resulting [...]
Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans. Below the air traffic, fellow flyers unpack hand-painted model airplanes of various sizes from the backseat [...]
Flight training schools in Vancouver are angry at being grounded due to a no-fly zone to be introduced as part of security precautions for the forthcoming Winter Olympics. They say it is going to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue while still having to pay salaries, rent, insurance and utilities. Instructors [...]
The head of schools in Vancouver says she’s concerned that children are getting a one-sided view of the forthcoming 2010 Winter Olympics. “Our kids are not a rent-a-crowd to come out and create buzz and excitement during school hours,” said Patti Bacchus, Vision Vancouver trustee and chair of the Vancouver School Board. “There is the [...]
Preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics have had an unexpected effect on a vulnerable group in Vancouver. Government-assisted refugees from volatile countries such as Somalia, Sudan and the Congo have not escaped the influence the Olympics have had on the city, even though they are not familiar with the Games. Officials rushed refugees through the [...]
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