It's a crapshoot as to whether his presence will embarrass or enhance the event

Police are warning parents to be vigilant after a six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in Surrey, B.C., on Friday.

Canadian pitcher Danielle Lawrie was the victim of poor run support Saturday, tossing an eight-inning gem against Venezuela, only to lose 1-0 at the Canada Cup women's softball tournament.

EnCana Corp.'s natural gas pipeline in northeastern B.C. sprang a small leak after being targeted by a sixth bomb Saturday, the second case of what the RCMP describe as 'domestic terrorism' in less than a week.

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Civil Liberties Group: Vancouver Olympics Threaten Free Speech
DigitalJournal.com
Few would have thought that the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games would be deemed a threat to civil liberties. But the British Columbia Civil Liberties ...
Vancouver 2010: Ringing In Free-SpeechPacific Free Press
Free speech at risk during 2010 Olympics, group saysCBC.ca
Winnipeg tour operator says 2010 organizers trying to bully him ...Winnipeg Free Press
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The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is warning free speech will be in danger during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Vancouver 2010 Olympics - Hockey Futures
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The 2010 Olympic games will be taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia and, a Canadian NHL city that sort of likes hockey, that setting will certainly ...

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The brother of a teenage girl from Squamish, B.C., who has been missing for two weeks says too much attention is being paid to her former boyfriend.

Boston Globe
Ahead of Olympics, 'brutal' gang war rattles Vancouver
Chicago Tribune
What we have seen are new rules of engagement for the gangsters," Vancouver's chief police constable, Jim Chu, told reporters in March. ...
Vancouver mired in deadly gang warUnited Press International

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Defying Gravity, a CTV science-fiction series made in Vancouver, has been picked up by ABC in yet another coup for Canadian-made television programs.

Stampede's Canada Pavillion promotes Vancouver 2010
660 News
... early Friday by Minister of Sport Gary Lunn and Mrs. Laureen Harper, promoting the Vancouver Whistler games, even featuring the flashy Olympic torch. ...
Air Canada Union Dangles Vancouver Olympics Industrial Peace To ...AHN
Cooper zeroes in on VancouverDaily Telegraph
Amtrak cleared for 2nd daily train to Vancouver, BCSeattle Times
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B.C. Lions' receiver Ryan Grice-Mullen dropped a Hail Mary pass with 13 seconds to go that would have won the game, a back-and-forth 28-24 Roughriders' win that featured a whopping 15 turnovers.

More than 300 people gathered at a funeral home in Delta on Friday to pay their respects to a Surrey teenager killed in a car crash.

A van sought in connection with the death of a Burnaby businessman on Thursday may be linked to a theft that took place in the city two weeks ago.

Free agent winger Mikael Samuelsson signed a three-year contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.

Police say foul play has been ruled out after a man's body was found in Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park Friday morning.

The Grouse Grind trail on Vancouver's North Shore reopened Friday afternoon after being closed due to falling rock.

Chicago Tribune
Kwan returning to ice for August show
The Associated Press
Her performance in Seoul could be an indication that competitive skating is still a possibility with the Vancouver Olympics looming. ...
Kwan to skate in show ... for fun or a comeback?Los Angeles Times

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Work on a windmill as tall as a 20-storey building on the peak of Grouse Mountain has been delayed because of a helicopter pilot's concerns about lifting the massive blades.

Historically low interest rates and discounted housing prices are fuelling a real estate boom on B.C.'s south coast with sales in Vancouver up 75 per cent compared to June of last year.