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Canada's Olympics city has notorious skid row
Published February 9, 2010, 11:57 am, Park Hills Daily Journal
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a trash bin.
Vancouver's skid row blocks from Olympics site
Published February 9, 2010, 3:22 am, MalaysiaNews.net
VANCOUVER, British Columbia | Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver's Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a ...
Vancouver's skid row blocks from Olympics site
Published February 9, 2010, 2:16 am, The Washington Times
VANCOUVER, British Columbia | Five blocks away from the venue for Vancouver's Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday, four grizzled addicts huddle in the rain, injecting themselves with heroin behind a trash bin. This is the Downtown Eastside, where life is volatile and the slightest misstep can invite brutal retaliation. "It's a jungle," said Glen, a 49-year-old heroin addict who goes by the ...
Magnificent obsessions
Published February 8, 2010, 10:18 pm, Canoe Travel
These delicate morsels of sweet seduction may not have been food for the gods, but they were a favourite of at least one French Queen. Marie Antoinette was reportedly captivated by the airy confection.
The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession
Published February 8, 2010, 4:10 pm, Independent
Anger doesn't sit easily on the urbane, vaguely cuddly frame of Joe Stiglitz. His beard and open-necked shirt lend him an unbuttoned air, and he has the veteran teacher's ability to put the intellectually inferior at their ease, which I am grateful for. A career that includes a spell as Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton White House, chief economist at the World ...
Moscow on the cheap
Published February 7, 2010, 6:10 am, Chicago Tribune
Tag along with a Metro-riding native who visits parks, restaurants, galleries and other favorites, all for less than $20 a day. Boasting posh restaurants, luxury boutiques and a flock of millionaires who indulge in them, Moscow is considered one of the most expensive cities on the planet. Just take a walk through the rows of tinted Range Rovers and Bentleys parked behind the Bolshoi Theatre and ...
Nicaragua the real deal
Published February 7, 2010, 1:52 am, Toronto Sun
It's easy to see why Paul Rivers and Tyler Carpenter left the snow, cold, hustle and bustle behind back home in Canada.
Pierre Rainero traces Cartier's trailblazing design history in Four Arts talk
Published February 6, 2010, 4:45 pm, Palm Beach Daily News
From the time of its founding in the mid-19th century, Cartier became one of the most famous names in jewelry due to its position as the preferred supplier to the royal courts of Europe.
Best for urban encounters: Vancouver
Published February 5, 2010, 4:25 pm, Independent
I was in Vancouver twice last year. Both times, the day I left, it rained; thick, obdurate, rain falling out of a black sky. My hotel room windows looked as if they might dissolve. Gone were the superb vistas – mountains, the ocean, glass city. The deluge made it easier to say goodbye and was a reminder too that Vancouver is a very wet place most of the year.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren: The Triumph of Zombie Economics
Published February 5, 2010, 8:06 am, The Huffington Post
With the new budget forecasts coming out of the Obama administration showing deficits until the cows come home, it's time to face a troubling truth...
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