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Vancouver 2010: The Business of the Games

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The 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver: the biggest story in BC’s history. The BCBusiness editorial package Vancouver 2010: The Business of the Games gives you a business slant on the human drama of the Games, using the strength of new media to convey the physical immediacy of our city, and establishing a hub for online opinion. Vancouver 2010: The Business of the Games: the human spectacle, the tale told in human faces, the (c)rush of being in Olympic Vancouver.

 

The Ten Greatest

Counting down the Winter Olympic moments that most fill Canadian hearts with pride.
In 1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France. Canada went…

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Your Logo Here

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In this consumerist society of ours, it’s impossible to escape the overwhelming presence of logos. Their ubiquity forms…

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Ten Debt Sentences

The Winter Games will have undeniable benefits for B.C. now and in the years to come. But as Olympics history shows us, the experience isn’t…

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The Five Worst

Five flushes of embarrassment. Five tingles of dread. Five lurches of our collective stomach.

Click below for the five worst moments for Canadians at the Winter…

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Lululemon Gets Gold for Guts

With its new clothing line, Vancouver brand giant Lululemon Athletica is getting in the face of the VANOC's fashion gestapo. Will the risk pay off?

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The 2010 Olympics: In One Word

If you had to put your feelings about Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Games into one word, what would it be?
The news reports are filled with the…

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Week Before the Games

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nordica are Vancouver wedding photographers, social media photographers and Vancouver headshot photographers who, although based in Vancouver, take projects worldwide.

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Day Before the Games

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nordica are Vancouver wedding photographers, social media photographers and Vancouver headshot photographers who, although based in Vancouver, take projects worldwide.

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Games On!

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nordica are Vancouver wedding photographers, social media photographers and Vancouver headshot photographers who, although based in Vancouver, take projects worldwide.

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Games in Full Swing

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nordica are Vancouver wedding photographers, social media photographers and Vancouver headshot photographers who, although based in Vancouver, take projects worldwide.

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Fortress Vancouver

Fortress Vancouver
The powers-that-be are determined to put on a great…

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Boosters & Gainsayers

If you listened to both Olympic supporters and critics, you’d think they were speaking about two completely different events.
One is an opportunity – a profitable…

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Winter Olympic Logos

Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid, USA, 1932

Canada sent a record 59 athletes to the 1932 Games at Lake Placid, New York, and the team came…

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Summer Olympic Logos

1924 Summer Olympic Games – Paris, France
At the 1924 Games, the Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger) was introduced, as was the Closing…

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At Your Service

It’s the biggest event in B.C. history.

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Games Transportation

Traffic Pattern Changed
Olympic spectators may find themselves in a competition of their own once the games start: getting to the venues. With road closures, parking…

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Time Lapse Vancouver

Beautiful time-lapse photography of Vancouver, the City of Glass.
"Vancouver City" is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD.

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Canadian Hockey Gold

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nordica are Vancouver wedding photographers, social media photographers and Vancouver headshot photographers who, although based in Vancouver, take projects worldwide.

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The Olympics Is Starting to Get to Me

Even though I'm supposed to be a grumpy old cynic, I have to admit that, reluctantly, I'm getting just a tich excited about this Olympics…

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My Olympic Moment

An Olympic moment confirmed my belief that it is different out here.
Wandering around downtown this weekend to see how the Olympics has affected the city,

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Olympic Lessons in Branding

What the big branding brains assembling in Vancouver for the 2010 Games can teach us about marketing.
Whether you are for or against the Olympics, it’s…

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