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Riot Breaks Out After Game In Vancouver

Vancouver Newspapers, Forced to Hand Over Riot Photos, Instead Make Them Public

Posted January 20, 2012, 9:10 am by (14 Comments)

Kudos to the Vancouver papers for giving the public access to the same information they had to turn over to the cops, and also for taking advantage of the moment.

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Site News

Posted July 8, 2011, 1:40 pm by (78 Comments)

An announcement about two recent additions to the site.

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Vancouver Riot Kissing Couple Identified: He’s Australian, She’s Canadian

Posted June 17, 2011, 11:16 am by (224 Comments)

The young man is 29-year-old Scott Jones from Australia; the female is Alexandra Thomas, a Canadian. He was helping her after she had been injured during the riot.

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Bruins fan sends shoutout to mom

Bruins Fans Get Their Licks in On Live TV

Posted June 16, 2011, 7:47 am by (1 Comment)

Live TV combined with wasted fans always translates to thoughtful, moving shoutouts.

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Political Debate In Montreal Rescheduled To Avoid Canadiens – Bruins Series

Posted April 11, 2011, 12:10 pm by (93 Comments)

NHL Playoffs and Canadian Politics: As if there was any doubt what was more important to Canada, televised political debates in Quebec have been rescheduled so as to not compete with Thursday’s Canadiens – Bruins game. Politicians “argued that having the classic matchup between the two bitter hockey rivals and the debate on the same [...]

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Olympic Gold Medalists Jamie Sale, David Pelletier Divorce

Posted June 5, 2010, 1:05 pm by (10 Comments)

Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won the gold medal in Salt Lake City in 2002 after a French judge admitted to helping fix the outcome in favor of the Russians. Now the couple is divorcing after being a pair on and off the ice for the last 12 years. They will still remain a pair [...]

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Swedish Curlers Are Totally Metal

Posted February 22, 2010, 7:45 am by (9 Comments)

I haven’t tried to hide my love of curling. If it were on television 18 hours a day (Like it has been), I would probably watch it 18 hours a day. (Like I have been.) So when I sat in my living room last night watching the USA vs. Sweden ladies curling match and heard [...]

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