Tweet A report to the Vancouver City Council by the general manager of financial services of Olympic operations placed the cost of hosting the 2010 Winter Games at $554.3 million. The bulk of the spending done by the city the past seven years was on capital infrastructure, while about $30 million was for operational expenses. [...]

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, [...]