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Celebrating the Olympics’ Last Night at Robson Square – Vancouver’s Biggest Street Party Ever?

by Dana Lynch in Events on February 28, 2010

Massive crowds gather for the last night of the Vancouver Olympics at Robson Square, in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery

In all the years that I’ve lived in the Vancouver, I have never seen anything like the street partying downtown tonight, especially around Robson Square / GE Plaza, where crowds so thick you could barely move celebrated the last night of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics by watching the Closing Ceremonies together on the big screen by the Square and projected large-scale on the side of Sears.

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Celebrating the Olympics’ Last Night at Robson Square – Vancouver’s Biggest Street Party Ever?

Celebrating Hockey Gold at LiveCity Downtown

by Remy Scalza in Events on February 28, 2010

Fans celebrate Team Canada's first goal inside LiveCity Downtown's beer tent.

You couldn’t have asked for a more fitting finale to the Vancouver 2010 Games – Canada vs. U.S.A. in a gold medal hockey game on Canadian soil.

I took in the action today at LiveCity Downtown, perhaps the best place in the city to see the game outside of Canada Hockey Place. As I made my way across town and toward the gates, a swirling roar of cheering was rolling round and round the city. Something special was in the air.

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The Right to Believe at CentrePlace Manitoba

by Remy Scalza in Events on February 28, 2010

Joralyn Zaballero, of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, poses outside of the CentrePlace Manitoba pavilion.

There must be something in the water out in Manitoba. Canada’s Central Province, with a population just over 1.2 million, sent 14 athletes to the Olympics. Seven will be coming home with medals, including Canada’s new posterboy for skeleton. Jon Montgomery, the bearded redhead who won gold in the event, hails from the tiny town of Russell, Manitoba, 340 kilometers northwest of Winnipeg.

I learned this and more while exploring CentrePlace Manitoba this afternoon, inside the LiveCity Downtown celebration site. I picked a good day to visit. While the rest of the known universe – including every last person in LiveCity Downtown – was absorbed in the thrilling men’s hockey final, I had CentrePlace Manitoba all to myself.

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The Right to Believe at CentrePlace Manitoba

Olympic Partying in the Bars of Yaletown

by Remy Scalza in Food & Drink on February 27, 2010

Cocktails with cotton candy are among the creative libations in Society, one of Yaletown's Olympic hotspots.

This is it. You’ve got one last weekend to take part in the biggest party that Vancouver has ever seen. When it comes to places to celebrate, the city’s suffering from a wealth of riches at the moment. There’s the Granville Street entertainment district, the Olympic houses and pavilions scattered across town, not to mention the city’s official celebration zones. But when it comes to finishing off the Games in style, my money is on Yaletown.

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Letting the Dogs Out at LiveCity Yaletown

by Remy Scalza in Events on February 27, 2010

Huskies pose for photos with Quatchi at LiveCity Yaletown.

Chris Persson’s huskies are tired. I spotted the four dogs at LiveCity Yaletown this afternoon. They’ve been stationed outside the Samsung tent since day one of the Games, tethered to a bobsled with a plastic Quatchi inside. Today, the huskies were huddled together against a steady drizzle, tails down, eyes sleepy. After two crazy weeks of Olympic excitement, Chris and her dogs were ready to to home.

But one precious weekend of Olympic partying remains in Vancouver. And even the rain couldn’t do much to dampen spirits today at Livecity Yaletown. After two weeks of surveying everything the Olympics have to offer, I can safely say that LiveCity Yaletown is the uncontested king of celebration sites. The nightly fireworks and water shows, the blockbuster corporate tents and the big-name acts that take the stage have kept Yaletown full night after night, often with long waits to get inside.

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Letting the Dogs Out at LiveCity Yaletown

Celebrating the Olympics’ Last Night at Robson Square – Vancouver’s Biggest Street Party Ever?

Celebrating Hockey Gold at LiveCity Downtown

The Right to Believe at CentrePlace Manitoba

Olympic Partying in the Bars of Yaletown

Letting the Dogs Out at LiveCity Yaletown

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