The reawakening of Capt. Greene
Trevor Greene not only survived an axe blow to the head, he lived to speak, move, write a book, and soon, marry.
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Ken MacQueen
Ken MacQueen is Vancouver bureau chief for Maclean’s, and a reformed Ottawa Parliamentary reporter and columnist. He prefers B.C., where stories hang fat and juicy from the trees, waiting to be shared. He’s also covered the highs and lows of the royal family, and eight Olympic Games.
You’ve got mail: Olympic tickets have arrived!
Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes. Remember all those Olympic tickets you ordered way back when the country was still...
Rowing Coach Bent Jensen’s last great race
Canada lost one of its great Olympic coaches Wednesday. Bent Jensen, 60, who led Canada’s lightweight men’s rowing crew to a...
Cindy Klassen sits out the skating season—on a bike
Speed-skating ace Cindy Klassen announced today she’s sitting out the current World Cup season, to allow herself a full recovery...
Bad Olympics, bet they don’t even cure cancer
The Olympics are big, noisy, pushy and inconvenient for those in a hurry. Vancouver is just waking up to a taste of what it’s...
So you want to carry the Olympic torch, do ya?
Here , after more than a year in the making, is the route for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic flame, done up as a nice interactive...
Coming to a town near you. Or maybe not?
This Friday, Nov. 21, is the day that The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee will release the 35,000 route of the torch...
Can’t put a price on security.
Maybe terrorists blew up a dirty nuclear device in the Port of Vancouver. Or maybe, an entire national Olympic team was held...
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