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Canadian athlete, Jennifer Heil, won the first medal for Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games today! She took the silver in women's moguls at Cypress.

So did you watch the Opening Ceremonies? I was lucky enough to see the rehearsal and know that one of my favourite Vancouverites (well, Penticton, but close enough!) Shane Koyczan was going to perform for billions of people via the magic of TV.

So I took a ride on the Olympic Line from Granville Island to the skytrain on Thursday and was very excited to see a Bombardier employee handing out mini cutouts of the streetcar to young-ins on the train: I scored one for a kid stuck at home from sc

Use your Games-time travel plan: instead of driving, try teleworking, ride-sharing/carpooling, cycling, walking, taking transit or working flex hours.

The polka dot , the hobbit , the castle , and just in time for Olympics...... The colour palate is just a little too close to be anything else...

Cool! One of my favourite shows is broadcasting from Vancouver until February 12th. "Daily Planet Goes to Vancouver"! Right HERE .

We've got a little bit of coverage, certainly, but if you're into the Olympics, over the next few weeks you might be watching them on CTV, seeing stories about them and highlights from them on other channels, you'll be reading about them in the paper

Dearest BBC, You just totally blew our minds. Holy crap. Love, V.I.A.

Too bad I traded my Wii in for an XBOX! Has anybody played this game? From what it looks like on the official site it's been out for a while now...

Thanks to James at The Peak for finding this gem, Rainbow War! Anybody remember this? It's an "Academy Award Nominated Short Film that debuted at EXPO '86 in Vancouver" and it's got the voices of Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie from Whose Line is it An