RCMP INSET (Integrated National Security Enforcement Team) announces plan to work with Vancouver Police on terrorism in Vancouver
by Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun Jan 9, 2009
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department has joined with the RCMP to form a joint national security team specifically for the city of Vancouver.
More questions in $875 million 2010 village debacle
Updated: Sat Jan. 10 2009 16:47:07, ctvbc.ca
Just 24 hours after Vancouver taxpayers were told they could be on the hook for $875 million in construction costs for the 2010 Olympic athlete's village, the city is still reeling.
Mayor wants MLAs recalled to deal with Olympics issue
Mon. Jan. 12 2009, CTV.ca News Staff
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling on the provincial legislature to be recalled so that it can deal with the financial problems plaguing the 2010 Olympic athletes' village.
The running tab for the Olympics is running and running
By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, January 12, 2009
VICTORIA — As Vancouver residents prepare to take an Olympic-sized bath, the rest of us are scarcely home free on our share of the cost of staging the 2010 Winter Games and related projects.
2 more articles on Vancouver's Olympic Village and growing debt, including Vancouver's potential loss in credit rating...
After the Olympics comes debt
By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun, January 13, 2009
Vancouver Olympics suffer first sponsor bankruptcy
By BOB MACKIN, 24 Hours, Jan 14, 2009
Things just got worse for VANOC.
Security budget games mean another Games embarrassment
By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, January 15, 2009
Worst slumlords should be fined, activists insist
Living standards of skid-row hotels come under fire as tenancy branch has failed to use monetary club
By Andy Ivens, The Province, January 17, 2009
Vancouver gets OK to borrow to finish Olympic Athletes' Village
City charter amended after marathon debate
CBC News, Sunday, January 18, 2009
The City of Vancouver has been given the go-ahead to borrow the money it needs to complete the Athletes' Village for the 2010 Winter Games.
Critic warns Vancouver may muzzle 2010 opponents
Vancouver city officials run the risk of curbing rights during the Olympics in order to keep the city looking uncluttered, says a civil liberties advocate.
January 20, 2009, ctvbc.ca
ORN Press Conference: Proposed City By-Law Changes & Olympic Village
On Thursday Jan 22 Vancouver City Council will be 'debating' a series of
significant Olympics-related issues including financing of the Olympic
Village and a bylaw to restrict non-Games (ie anti-Games) signs.
CIVIL CITY IS A HATE CRIME: APC drops banner off Cambie bridge
For Immediate Release
January 21st, 2009
Activists concerned about right to protest
Catherine Rolfsen and Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun, Friday, January 23, 2009
Vancouver's new city council faced its first real grilling from Olympic protesters Thursday as it considered how to regulate advertising and signage during the 2010 Games.
Olympic security boss puts protesters on notice
'Unlawful' actions will be met with swift response, RCMP assistant commissioner warns, as activists vow to take on 'two-week circus'
ROD MICKLEBURGH, Globe and Mail, January 23, 2009
The cost of the Games
B.C. municipal governments have shovelled taxpayer money to the event in a big way
Bruce Constantineau, Vancouver Sun, Friday, January 23, 2009
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