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Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan practices for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Robert Skinner/The Canadian Press
Vancouver 2010

A date with history

When the 2010 Winter Olympics open in Vancouver Friday night, it will be the culmination of a dream that was generations in the making

Uliana Lopatkina
Dance

A Carmen excerpt full of pelvic flutter and thrusting arms

A shame that the Kirov Ballet dancers were limited to a pared-down performance in a mixed musical night

Canadian celebrity Sandra Oh raises her arms for the Canadian athletes during the flag raising ceremony at the Olympic Athletes Village on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, in Vancouver.
Olympic Notebook

Oh Canada

The maple leaf is raised to an emotional Athlete's Village

Archdeacon Christopher Page shown at St. Philip's Anglican Church in Victoria, B.C.
Religion

Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction

Anglicanism in Canada could disappear within a generation, says a report that recommends closing churches in B.C.

Director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), David Howman and the Chairmain of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) John Fahey attends a press conference ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 11, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images)

WADA cracks down on drug cheats

World Anti-Doping Agency officials unleash stringent anti-doping measures, plan to test more than 2,500 athletes at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

Police deal with false alarm in North Vancouver

Controlled explosion by RCMP reveals no explosives, but bus, train and water traffic shut down in Lonsdale Quay area 'to be safe'

Vancouver 2010

Salt Lake's Olympic artistic director sends open letter to VANOC

Urges John Furlong to drop clause preventing artists criticizing Games and sponsors in their work

Vancouver 2010

Stephen Colbert extends open invitation to Vancouver tapings

Host will be interviewing celebrities on a festival-style stage

EnCana apologizes for gas leak

Apology came only after report outlined company failures led to incident

Insite protesters promise to dog Harper’s Olympic appearances

Supporters of safe-injection site delay Harper photo-op, prompting fierce exchange between PM’s spokesman and NDP MP

Vancouver 2010

Absences in relay lend clues to cauldron mystery

Betty Fox, Wayne Gretzky haven't carried Olympic torch

Red Sky Performance's dance and music creation Tono is part of the Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver.

Cultural Olympiad
Entertainment Guide

'Tliishin Thliitsapilthim', n.d.Painter unknown (possibly Hamtsiit) Keeper of the history: Tliishin, Derek Peters Courtesy of George Terasaki163 x 251 cmceremonial curtains for cultural olympiad from Belkin Art Gallery

Cultural Olympiad
Peeking behind the curtains
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Spotlight on B.C.

As all eyes turn to British Columbia, Globe Travel takes you to the province's best destinations

A snowboarder rides on Whister Mountain, February 6, 2010. The Vancouver 2010 Olympics open February 12.

Columnists

Tom Hawthorn
The Island remembers its black pioneers

The first group of black settlers arrived in the colony in 1858

Tom Hawthorn
Mark Hume
Dry ski slopes will be least of B.C.'s troubles

Climate change demands new water laws

Mark Hume
City and politics
State of Vancouver

The website of Globe and Mail contributor Frances Bula

Canada's Slum
The Fix

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: A fresh perspective

Crack Cocaine addict Patricia Hurst uses a pipe to get high in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside January 29, 2009.
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