Of course we’re thrilled at the gold medal win by the Canadian women’s hockey team but as I watched the final game it occurred to me that women play hockey differently than do men. For starters, women don’t get cocky when they have a two goal lead. They are always there for the rebound in front of the net and seem to never get sloppy at picking up the strays; they pass more. The men’s team, sitting in a row watching, didn’t even crack a smile as the clock wound down to the inevitable victory: are they feeling even more pressure now that the women are world beating? I’m guessing a big YES.
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Fired Up! Community Spirit in 2010 Winter Olympics.
It’s great to see tens of thousands of people at the three key 2010 Winter Olympic Venue cities — celebrating, having fun and just having a good time making new friends. All thanks to the world’s top athletic competition. Downtown Vancouver is a sea of people — day and night – with various country pavillions, entertainment sites and pedestrian-only streets. Whistler is busting out all over with happy people and entertainment.
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Feb
19
Fair Fares
What would be so bad about a little enforcement? There is a school of research that looks at enforcement of laws as the first prerequisite to community order, pride and responsibility. When rules are made but not enforced, people lose respect for the rules, the rule makers and the jurisdiction involved. Such is the case, I believe, with the lack of enforcement on Vancouver’s public transit system during the Olympic games.
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Feb
17
Fired Up! Ready to GO!
Seeing the Winter Olympics here in Vancouver — right after having read David Plouffe’s book on the Obama campaign (see review) — made me think a lot about “spirit”, “commitment”, “heart”. The Olympics is bringing a LOT of that to Vancouver right now.
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“Civilized Security” for 2010 Olympics
Canadians have rarely seen security like the public display of policing we’re experiencing in Vancouver where we are welcoming the world to the Winter Olympic Games.
Images of Olympic Security
I had the chance to see Olympic security at work first hand on opening day when a “police incident” was reported on the Seabus in North Vancouver. As you know, Olympic security is all over the Vancouver area now. Turns out someone had left a package at the North Shore terminal and, when it was noticed, the entire Seabus system was locked down, choppers hit the air, and the crowds at both ends of the route were shunted onto shuttles.
Street Food – Who’s Your City?
Street food is one of the ways we measure a new city. Like architecture, attitude and transit, it’s a quick indicator of the way people in any given town think and live. If you can’t find decent, interesting and inexpensive food on the street, you have to wonder what else a city lacks.
Book Review: Audacity = Hope
The Audacity to Win
by David Plouffe
Rating: 
This is the best “political” book I’ve read in a long time. It tells a compelling story. It has plots and sub-plots It’s human. I learn from it. And it’s true.
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