Pivot Legal Society continued its tightly-focused red tent campaign with a noon-time homelessness rally that felt almost like a celebration.

“It’s got a good vibe,” the group’s executive director John Richardson told the Tyee as he shook hands, shot smiles and composed a speech in his head. Read more…

Documenting police activity through notes, photographs and video, the observers say they hope to be the watchful eye that ensures a safe, peaceful and legal Olympics experience for committed activists and protestors in the face of a massive police force with a billion dollar budget. Read more…

The project has been called "unique," "magical," and simply "cool." But in a video posted by Stop BC Arts Cuts yesterday, Lozano-Hemmer called his own work "obscene."

"As I do this project and I learn more about the dire situation of the arts in B.C., I'm outraged by the complete lack of vision that has been expressed for after the Olympics," said Lozano-Hemmer, "I find my project obscene." Read more…

Vancouver Police Department should stop bringing semi-automatic military weaponry to demonstrations in Vancouver, even where there's a risk of rioting, says the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in a press release issued today that includes a photo of VPD officer carrying a high-powered Colt C8 carbine rifle. Read more…

In a city where "visible minorities" have become the majority, some are asking whether VANOC failed to showcase Canadian multiculturalism.

Alden Habacon is the founder of Schema Magazine, an online publication for "cultural navigators." He described the Feb. 12 kick-off as "the whitest-looking opening ceremonies." Read more…

The gates opened as usual at a Vancouver city Olympic celebration site Wednesday, the day after 19 people were injured when fans at a rock concert pushed through a barrier. Read more…

The legal observer program put into place by the BC Civil Liberties Association to watchdog police and security during the 2010 Olympics may continue after the games.

On Feb. 16, The Tyee learned from legal observer and BCCLA board member Jacob Hunter that the BCCLA is considering extending the volunteer-powered program. Read more…

Comedian Stephen Colbert has called Canadians "syrup suckers" and "iceholes," has threatened to punch beavers in the face, and has encouraged his fans to come up with lewd definitions of "Canada's history."

But thousands of Canadians welcomed the American satirist with cheers and applause today. Read more…

"The Alexisonfire performance for LiveCity Yaletown on Tuesday night got cancelled due to the crowd's violence. Not 10 seconds into the main vocalist's performance, the band stopped playing and asked everyone to move back. Turned out the first three rows of people were falling on top of one another, breaking the barrier (and their bones). Some victims ended up being carried away in the ambulance due to the bone sticking out of the body.

"When the band announced the cancellation, people responded negatively with comments such as 'Alexisonfire sucks!' and 'F--- the police!'. Clearly, they made the right choice...." Read more…

Another day, another cancellation on Cypress Mountain: 20,000 more tickets holders won't get to see the events they planned after Vancouver Olympic organizers announced today that the continuing rains have made the standing-room area unsafe. Read more…

In a story with the headline "Vancouver Games continue downhill slide from disaster to calamity," a writer from The Guardian suggests these may be the worst in history.

"It is hard to believe anything will surpass the organisational chaos and naked commercial greed of the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta or the financial­disaster of the 1976 Games, which bankrupted Montreal," wrote Lawrence Donegan Monday from Vancouver for the U.K. news outlet, "yet with every passing day the sense of drift and nervousness about the Vancouver Games grows ever more noticeable." Read more…

After less than 24 hours on air, Industry Canada officers dressed in Olympic gear told the people behind Soundscapes Co-op radio that they could shut down, or face $25,000 fines. Read more…

Olympic organizers have selected five established British Columbia energy firms to offset carbon emissions through new projects to be completed over the next three years.

"We could have gone out into the market and bought carbon offsets," Offsetters CEO James Tansey told The Tyee. "What we chose to do instead is to take this opportunity to show the world what great technologies B.C. has." Read more…

An article appearing in today's issue of 24 Hours Vancouver garbled what I had to say about social media and protesters, giving the impression that I had knowledge the Media Coop is acting as a command and control centre for anarchist protests. In fact, I have no such knowledge and did not say I did. Read more…

Darryl Bannon normally works at the Vancouver General Hospital, but for the Olympic period he took on a temporary position at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

The PhD student had barely settled in when he received surprising news: he’d been deemed a security threat, and was being fired. The situation seems a textbook case of guilt by association. Read more…

Civil society activists refrained from criticizing Saturday’s violent march as they unfurled a giant banner from Cambie Bridge Monday morning. But the head of Pivot Legal Society hoped today’s action changes the way people think about protest. Read more…

In a protest against Norwegian-owned fish farm tenures in the Broughton Archipelago, the Executive of the B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs began a 29-hour fast this morning. Read more…

One cycling police officer told the Tyee that the crowd spanned for a solid three blocks. The Vancouver Sun estimates that 800 people attended, while the Canadian Press pegged the number closer to 1,200. Many repeat participants said it was the largest turnout they had ever seen. Read more…

People in the know, wearing secretive smiles, lingered somewhere between Thurlow and Bute Streets this afternoon. Then, the music started blaring. Read more…

Not all the protesters in Vancouver’s downtown Saturday had the same message.

Shortly after protesters ripped through downtown this morning, flipping dumpsters, smashing windows, and spraying buildings with paint, Isabella Mori stood on the corner of Georgia and Granville Streets in front of a smashed window with her own message of protest. She held a sign above her head that stated, “Being a vandalizing douchebag is not a political statement.” Read more…