Posts Tagged ‘ 2010 Winter Olympics ’

From Make & Meaning: Fostering Community

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July 28, 2010
From Make & Meaning: Fostering Community

This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 30th, 2010. It’s not very topical now,  five months after the Olympics, but I wanted to save this post in a public forum. (Also, heh, look how jaded I was before the Games! Look how I totally failed to anticipate...
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A Weekend in Whistler During the Olympics

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February 22, 2010
A Weekend in Whistler During the Olympics

We headed into the mountains last weekend to catch a couple of events at Whistler.  The town of Whistler is designated a “resort municipality”, which means it’s a resort first and foremost. The centre of town is the Whistler Village, which is also where you catch the gondolas up the twin ski mountains of...
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An Afternoon in Downtown Vancouver During the Olympics

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February 15, 2010
An Afternoon in Downtown Vancouver During the Olympics

Kids, my city is a giant party. We went Downtown yesterday afternoon to see what Vancouver’s like during the Olympics. (We live in the city of Vancouver, but about a half-hour from Downtown by bus or about a fifteen-minute drive. I wrote more about my neighbourhood for the Raincoast Books blog series 5 Things...
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