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.
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 and [...]
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 in [...]
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 will not [...]
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 competition and [...]
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 system so [...]
Parents in East Vancouver are worried about Olympic road closures that are three weeks longer than expected.
Principal David Ferguson of West Coast Christian School heard in October that the street outside his school would be closed after Jan. 24.
“I was a bit surprised to hear the news,” said Ferguson. “We knew that the road would [...]
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