Vancouver Fire and Rescue was called to B.C. Place Stadium at 10:43 p.m. Tuesday after a large quantity of diesel fuel leaked from the overflow valve of a tank near the east airlock doors. Read more…

The police took a special interest in an anti-Olympics speaking tour’s Kelowna stop this week. And while the cops say they were just doing what’s necessary to keep the Olympics safe, critics contend their actions were intimidating and an attack on the right to dissent. Read more…

There’s a “miniscule” chance the Olympics won’t take place at Whistler Blackcomb, Games organizers acknowledged today as a financial battle rages over the resort’s owner. Read more…

Most of the massive workforce needed to secure the Olympics will be in place by the end of January.

But Vancouver residents won’t see out-of-town cops keeping order on the streets, a Games security spokesperson said Tuesday. Read more…

Sportswriter Dave Zirin, who speaks in Vancouver tonight, has covered his share of Olympic Games, but there’s something decidedly different about Vancouver 2010: the protestors. Read more…

Cypress Mountain isn’t the only Olympic venue where rain wreaked havoc with VANOC last week. A large quantity of water cascaded through drainage holes on B.C. Place Stadium’s roof and crashed to the floor around 8 p.m. Thursday night. Read more…

Corporate marketing has way less rules than hockey. You rarely have to worry about being offside. You can even play for both teams at once.

Hockey legend Cassie Campbell knows. She’s the vaunted face of one Winter Games sponsor and two ambush marketing campaigns. Read more…

Local protesters are named alongside al-Qaeda as the biggest security threats to the 2010 Olympics in a U.S. government travel advisory.

“Domestic protest groups, supporting various political causes, may attempt to disrupt the Olympics through demonstration or other activities,” reads a fact sheet for Americans travelling to Vancouver’s Winter Games. Read more…

The opportunity to paint an iconic pop symbol couldn’t be missed by one Cree-Métis artist.

Kim Stewart yesterday joined three other Aboriginal artists from across the province to unveil their artistic interpretations of the native experience through Coca-Cola bottles. Read more…

One of Vancouver’s leading architecture critics has given the urban vision of 2010 Games planners a staunch thumbs down.

"In the new British Columbia, golf games with cabinet ministers count for more than design awards. And design competitions? What are those?" Trevor Boddy lamented in the latest issue of Vancouver Review. Read more…

VANOC representatives were among the officials who opened a newly renovated Covenant House shelter for homeless youth yesterday.

“This investment provides a permanent housing legacy that will offer at-risk youth both shelter and support,” said VANOC vicepresident Donna Wilson. Read more…

Canadian hockey legend Cassie Campbell must have felt ambushed when media peppered her with questions at a Scotiabank press conference in Vancouver yesterday.

Instead of reminiscing of Olympic gold, she had to explain why Scotiabank – not an Olympic sponsor – was piggybacking off the Winter Games by launching an ambush marketing campaign. Read more…

There may be a cool change on the horizon, according to Environment Canada meteorologist David Jones.

"There's a hint that as we get towards next week we'll start to see cooler air," Jones said. "That warm, milder air that's out in the Pacific to the west of us is going to be replaced by colder air." Read more…

The first national poll to be release since Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament until after the 2010 Winter Games found that the Conservative lead over the federal Liberals has shrunk to 5 per cent.

"At 33 points – a low not seen since the summer – a majority is a fantasy for the Conservatives for the time being," Ekos stated. "Indeed, they are now closer to sitting in opposition than they are to presiding over a majority." Read more…

"Be big, be bold," wrote VANOC vice-president Donna Wilson in announcing a 1.5 per cent pay raise "for the final months of this project." Read more…

Federal involvement might be the solution to a serious financial dispute over the owner of Whistler Blackcomb, according to a major U.S. newspaper.

“Things may have gotten so bad that only the Canadian government can save the day,” the New York Post recently reported. Read more…

Vancouver will reopen another temporary homeless shelter this week, and plans to open two more before the 2010 Winter Games begin. But officials conceded on Tuesday that the Terminal City continues to host hundreds more homeless Canadians than shelter beds. Read more…

The British Columbia government failed to make use of a tool that would have allowed it to “easily” update its estimate of the economic activity likely to come from the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, according to the response to a freedom of information request. Read more…

VANOC has solved the conundrum of the indoor cauldron, curse of the stained ceiling, and enigma of the echo at B.C. Place Stadium.

The VANOC board secretly approved withdrawing $8.3 million from a construction contingency fund to build a 25-million BTU gas pipeline to fuel an Olympic flame beneath the fabric dome. Instead of a false ceiling to hide the dirty roof, the report said five deep circular drape borders were required to "improve the stadium acoustics and aesthetics." Read more…