Olympics

Kudos to Guacira Naves for live blogging a chaotic panel discussion hosted by the Vancouver Social Media Club in partnership with Vancouver Bloggers Meetup last night at BOB Coworking Space in Vancouver. The point of the discussion was to “review expectations vs outcomes in the context of social and traditional media coverage of a...

This worker is taking down the big fence around Trout Lake – and this is happy news for the people in our neighbourhood! The southwest corner of Trout Lake park has been inaccessible since before the Olympics. Now the big fence is coming down and it looks so good. The kids and dogs can...

People are screaming as they drive by on the busy street outside my house in East Vancouver. Wooooo! Honk honk honk! Yeahhhhhhhhhhh! Ship horns blow in the harbour. And a wind has blown up in the air. The crows are cawing. Even 20 minutes after Canada beat the U.S. 3 – 2 in overtime...

In the final days of the Olympics, I'm noticing you can watch the games in many unexpected places - like Red Burrito on Commercial Drive at First Avenue.

I love the exciting feeling when you see your raffle ticket numbers correspond with the numbers spoken aloud. Yay! And now that I’m a mom, I can send my son to collect the prize, because I have a shy streak in such situations. Last night my son and I went to the Grand Finale...

Every Wednesday in February, starting at 7 p.m., a line-up of local writers will hit the stage at W2 (112 West Hastings. ) Organizer says: "These evenings are designed to show the city and the world real and diverse Vancouver culture and real creative individuals in the literary and publishing communities at a time...

It's not a protest and it's not connected with the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. It's an annual memorial march for the missing and murdered women of the downtown eastside neighbourhood...

People are chastising CTV on Twitter and demanding the network stop playing footage of 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili crashing to his death on a practice run at the Whistler luge track. Comments to @CTVOlympics are rich with expletives, showing anger and disgust, and asking people to retweet the message.