Opinion

Ole Einar Bjoerndalen cemented his place in Olympic history tonight. He won his eighth gold medal, his 13th overall, making him the most decorated winter Olympian ever .

You may have heard about the Olympic “bubble.” It’s a real thing. If you’re outside the bubble, you’re dirty. Inside it, you’re clean. We move between bubbles of various cleanliness. The media hotels, somewhat clean but not really.

Sad news, fans of high-fiving strangers. Turns out if the Canadian men’s hockey team makes it to the gold medal round of the Olympics, you won’t be able to gather in your favourite pub, bar, tavern or mead hall to watch the game, which begins 4 a.m.

Day by day, there’s a growing sense of the enormity of the government’s loss in the B.C. Supreme Court decision over the teachers’ contract. Liberals were tight-lipped the day it came down on Jan.

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Depending on where you saw it from, the early morning eruptions in Louisville looked pretty impressive. Some described the blasts as giant balls of fire that resembled flying saucers. A nearby police helicopter pilot described it as a bombing run.

When you’re in a long-term relationship, you have realizations that shock you into accepting that you’ve arrived at certain milestones. One of which is when your partner knows you so well that they’re completing your thoughts.