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Could trademark law curb artists who criticize Vancouver Olympics?

VANCOUVER (CBC) - Artists in Vancouver are worried that legislation protecting trademarks for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will interfere with their ability to create works critical of the games.

iamota Brings Mobile Text Messaging Technology to the Vancouver Civic Election

Vancouver, BC, October 23, 2008--(T-Net)--iamota Corporation, a Vancouver-based leader in mobile marketing and messaging services, is bringing mobile text messaging to the Vancouver political scene for the upcoming civic election this November. The company announces today, the launch of an unprecedented mobile marketing campaign for COPE (Coalition of Progressive Electors) which provides the ability for COPE to communicate with voters and supporters using mobile text messages.

Arts cuts will not affect Vancouver Olympiad fest

VANCOUVER–Olympic organizers in Vancouver may be tightening purse strings during this volatile economic climate but the 2009 Olympiad arts festival will not be on the chopping block.

Blogger Nikki Reimer reports from the opening of the Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival

Vancouver International Writers & Readers FestivalThe 21st Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival got officially underway with Grand Openings, an event that featured seven writers of different styles and backgrounds. As one patron remarked, it made for a “very multicultural evening.�

Six-year-old girl picks Tiqa for the name Vancouver's baby beluga

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A six-year-old girl from England who watched the birth of Vancouver's baby beluga whale on the Internet less than a week before moving to the city has picked the young calf's new name: Tiqa.

Six-year-old girl picks Tiqa for the name Vancouver's baby beluga

VANCOUVER, B.C. - A six-year-old girl from England who watched the birth of Vancouver's baby beluga whale on the Internet less than a week before moving to the city has picked the young calf's new name: Tiqa.

Could trademark law curb artists who criticize Vancouver Olympics?

Artists in Vancouver are worried that legislation protecting trademarks for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will interfere with their ability to create works critical of the games.

New art gallery, towers and roof for BC Place passes Vancouver council

An artist's conception of the refurbished BC Place in 2015, with the new Vancouver Art Gallery in the foreground, was presented in May when the plan was launched.An artist's conception of the refurbished BC Place in 2015, with the new Vancouver Art Gallery in the foreground, was presented in May when the plan was launched.

GDC Goes to Canada - GDC Canada to Take Place During the 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

Think Services’ Game Group has entered into a partnership with Reboot Communications to present Game Developers Conference (GDC) Canada in association with New Media BC’s Vancouver Digital Week in May 2009. In response to Canada’s increasingly important role in the international game development landscape, the GDC has committed to bringing a world-class conference focused on fostering critical information exchange, creating connections and stimulating creativity. Building on the success of the Vancouver International Game Summit, GDC Canada will feature global perspectives on cross-discipline and cross-platform content, with an eye to serving the increasingly significant Canadian games business sector.

Media Advisory - Vancouver 2010 to record more than 100 national anthems with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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Vancouver applies for national anthem trademark

The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Winter Olympics has filed to trademark part of the country's national anthem to use as a slogan promoting the event.

Vancouver Orchestra Season Opens With Cellist Lynn Harrell

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s 2008/2009 Season Opening weekend begins on a perfect note. It will feature one of the world’s greatest cellists, Lynn Harrell, performing Schumann’s beautiful Cello Concerto and the Canadian premiere of VSO Music Director Bramwell Tovey’s Urban Runway – a piece that was co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. On the second half, one of the great Romantic works of all time: Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet Suite.

Vancouver International Film Festival 2008--Part 2 Art, artists and the difficulties of the twentieth century

This is the second in a series of articles on the recent Vancouver International Film Festival (September 25-October 10).

Citigroup and Vancouver Airports Eye Gatwick: Paper

and the Vancouver Airports Authority are planning a joint 2 billion pounds bid for Gatwick Airport, The Sunday Times reported without citing sources.

Citigroup and Vancouver Airports eye Gatwick

The infrastructure fund of Citigroup and the Vancouver Airports Authority are planning a joint 2 billion pounds bid for Gatwick Airport, The Sunday Times reported without citing sources. Skip related content

Citigroup and Vancouver Airports eye Gatwick-paper

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The infrastructure fund of Citigroup (C.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and the Vancouver Airports Authority are planning a joint 2 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) bid for Gatwick Airport, The Sunday Times reported without citing sources.

GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

TMCNet: GDC Goes to Canada: Game Developers Conference Partners With Reboot Communications to Bring GDC Canada to 2009 Vancouver Digital Week

Vcr group says RCMP paid for reports used to justify closing injection site

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver legal group is calling on the federal auditor general to examine whether RCMP misused public funds by paying for two reports about a supervised injection site in the city's Downtown Eastside.

Teck sells Fording units to a Canadian bank for $2.3 billion

VANCOUVER - Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B), a major Vancouver miner, says it has struck a deal to sell about 27.6 million units of Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX:FDG.UN) to a Canadian bank in a move to raise $2.3 billion in cash to help finance its takeover of Fording's coal mining assets.

Heritage Minister Tours University of British-Columbia Museum of Anthropology

VANCOUVER (Marketwire) - The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today met with Dr. Anthony Shelton, director of Vancouver's University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology. He also took the time to visit the museum's newly expanded site.

Heritage Minister Tours University of British-Columbia Museum of Anthropology

VANCOUVER, BRITISH-COLUMBIA -- 11/10/08 -- The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today met with Dr. Anthony Shelton, director of Vancouver's University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology. He also took the time to visit the museum's newly expanded site.

Heritage Minister Tours University of British-Columbia Museum of Anthropology

VANCOUVER, BRITISH-COLUMBIA--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 10, 2008 -- The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, today met with Dr. Anthony Shelton, director of Vancouver's University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology. He also took the time to visit the museum's newly expanded site.

An artist's broken heart revealed

VANCOUVER -- Dearest Yukiko, I am in a nightmare from which I cannot awake. ... Toni Onley wrote this in October, 1991, in the weeks after his third wife, Yukiko Onley, left him. It was just one of a series of heart-wrenching pleas the Vancouver-based artist sent to her, beautifully scripted in handwritten, black ink on Japanese paper - and illustrated with the watercolours for which he was renowned.

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