Share Recently my friend Rattan Mall of the Indo Canadian Voice phoned me up to ask me what kind of responses the Chinese community has over the lack of multicultural representation in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic. I told him, other than what Mr Tung Chan of SUCCESS told the Vancouver [...]
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Share i think it’s wonderful in general…. what do you think? 2010 olympic opening ceremony however, some scenes look familiar…. Beijing Olympic opening ceremony Tags: Photos, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010, Winter Olympics
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Share THE Time magazine carries a piece of commentary this week titled “Why Canada Wants to Kick Olympic Butt“. Watch out, world. They are coming after you, on skeleton sleds, speed skates and, oh yeah, while wielding big old curling brooms. They used to be the nice guys (and gals); now they’d rather leave you [...]
Share With the Winter Olympics just weeks away from opening, I was shocked at the narrow-sightedness or interpretation of snowboarding in an Globe and Mail article today, titled “Once out-of-place gymnasts, now halfpipe heroes: Chinese reach summit of snowboarding world”. When describing the Chinese snowboarding atheletes, one paragraph says: Their lack of English and their [...]
Share 5 golds only? That’s a little too few IMO. Germany won 11 golds in Turin, ranking first: Germany 11 golds 12 silvers 6 bronzes 29 total medals Canada 7 golds 10 silvers 7 bronzes 24 total medals If we got 27 in total this time, we might be able to rank 2nd or 3rd? [...]
Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. The BC Liberals often claimed that economic development and management are their strengths but this bubble is bursting right in front of our eyes. BC’s economic performance record [...]
Share Perhaps the most exciting and most original part of the Canadian Olympic torch relay is that the torch is carried by “alternative” mode of transportation across the country. This is really smart. With the torch being transported by different modes of means, it ensures photos generated from each day of the “longest domestic torch [...]
Share 2010 Olympic torch relay warms up frigid Yukon village THE CANADIAN PRESS OLD CROW, Yukon – The 2010 Olympic torch warmed up this frigid Arctic community Wednesday as it was carried into a town celebration on a dogsled. Residents of the Yukon village north of the Arctic Circle waved and smiled as the Olympic [...]
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