Tweet A vast network of security cameras set up for the Winter Olympics doesn’t go on line officially until Monday, but it’s already nabbed its first miscreant. The apprehension of the apparently hapless drunk has police crowing about the efficiency of the cameras. But privacy watchdogs have been nervous about the unprecedented deployment of electronic [...]

Tweet The Olympic torch relay added another star to its roster. Major League Baseball hero Justin Morneau will carry the Olympic flame the day before the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies. The New Westminster native joins Canuck celebrities like Shania Twain, Steve Nash and Sidney Crosby, as well as the more than 12,000 local Canadian heroes [...]

Tweet Vancouver police have asked investigators in nearby Delta to take over the internal investigation into the case of a man beaten at his home last week by a pair of Vancouver officers in a case of mistaken identity. Vancouver Chief Jim Chu announced the shift Friday, suggesting that the move was necessary because Yao [...]

Tweet The lawyer for an innocent man who was beaten by Vancouver police in a case of mistaken identity is planning to sue the city. “Please be advised that Mr. [Yao Wei] Wu will be commencing a claim for damages for personal injury against the city of Vancouver and those responsible,” lawyer Cameron Ward wrote [...]

Tweet Cities across Canada are expected to experience strong growth in 2010 as they rebound from last year’s economic downturn, with Winter Olympics host Vancouver standing at the top of the heap, a report issued on Wednesday says. After contracting 1.8% in 2009, Vancouver’s GDP will grow 4.5% in 2010, the Conference Board of Canada [...]

Tweet Vancouver‘s second homicide of 2010 is an Asian man in his early 20s, the victim of a “brazen” daylight shooting while he was driving on a residential street on the city’s east side. The victim was heading down the 1500-block East 10th Avenue when he was shot in the torso at 1:06 p.m. Wednesday, [...]

Tweet Police are warning would-be car thieves that the 2010 Olympics won’t be their ticket to easy pickings, thanks to the RCMP’s bait car program. With an estimated 250,000 people taking public transit during the Games, police plan to flood all 22 park-and-ride lots and the Olympic transportation hubs with bait vehicles. On the North [...]

Tweet The opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and final details are hurriedly being worked out and set in place in downtown Vancouver, up at Whistler and at various venues and attractions throughout the region. Vancouver International Airport will be the first stop for more than 230,000 Olympics-bound athletes, [...]

Tweet Vancouver had the world’s least affordable housing market last year, according to a report that puts the blame on urban land-use policies designed to prevent sprawl. The Demographia International report released Monday looked at 272 metropolitan markets in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Four of the five least affordable [...]