Smile, they'll soon be watching
By IRWIN LOY, 24 HOURS, Friday, March 20, 2009
Vancouver looks set to get the ball rolling on installing controversial CCTV cameras during the Olympics. It's meant to be temporary, but civil liberties critics warn the move will pave the way for permanent closed-circuit TV cameras in public spaces.
Pre-Olympic transit ads encourage citizen surveillance
Friday, March 20, 2009, CBC News
An advertising campaign aimed at warning transit users to report suspicious activity was launched recently by TransLink in the lead-up to the Vancouver Olympic Games.
Knife-wielding man shot dead by police named
Updated: Mon Mar. 23 2009, CTV News, ctvbc.ca
Police have named the homeless man shot dead on Friday by two Vancouver police officers.
He is 58-year-old Michael Vann Hubbard, who had previously lived at the Salvation Army's Belkin House shelter on Homer St.
Of Peaks and Troughs
Frances Bula, Published: March 01, 2009, BC Business magazine
Charting an emotional path toward the next Olympic Games.
French strikers hold 3M exec hostage amid talks
Mar. 25 2009, The Associated Press
PITHIVIERS, France -- Striking French workers for U.S. manufacturer 3M held their boss hostage amid labour talks Wednesday at a plant south of Paris, as anger over layoffs and cutbacks mounted around the country.
Man shot and killed by Vancouver police was not ‘suspect’
By Lori Culbert, Vancouver Sun, March 24, 2009
VANCOUVER — A homeless man armed with an X-Acto knife who was shot and killed by Vancouver police last week was not the break-in suspect police were pursuing, a senior officer said Tuesday.
Sponsors on track, but concerns remain
Relying on Nortel, GM, Petrocan and the IOC, VANOC says budget is on schedule - but gaps could emerge
DAVID EBNER, March 26, 2009, Globe and Mail
Native Resistance to 2010 Olympics
Homeless relocations part of 2010 Games security plan
By Geoff Dembicki March 26, 2009, Tyee
Homeless people living close to 2010 Games venues may be asked to relocate or face arrest when fences go up, security officials said today.
Olympics abusing 'stolen land,' group says
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The Kingston Whig-Standard, March 24, 2009
Report, Video, and Media Coverage
100 people gathered outside Canada Place in downtown Vancouver on March 30 to protest the World Sport and Environment Conference.
2010 Games social promises ‘not measurable’: IOC official
By Geoff Dembicki April 1, The Tyee
A top International Olympic Committee official said today social commitments made in Vancouver’s Olympics bid process can’t be measured and aren’t contractual guarantees.
Police in Vancouver visiting Olympic protesters: activist
Georgia Straight, April 2, 2009
Chicago's Anti-IOC Protests Look to Vancouver's Olympic Troubles
Chris Shaw (For the Vancouver Observer)
I Spy With My Little Eye . . .
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