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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.

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Scrolling Beijing’s back alleys.

We picked the worst possible day to bust out of the Olympic bubble for a look at the “real” Beijing. At the top of our list:...

Canada’s main squeeze

There were a handful of Canadian Olympic athletes on my flight from Vancouver to Beijing on Monday. If they seemed a bit tightly...