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Impolitic Twitter post prompts apology
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 month ago
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Housing Minister Rich Coleman for getting personal on Twitter. Hundreds of protesters interrupt the Olympic torch relay through downtown Victoria. Public health officials say it was vital to give members of the Olympic torch team inoculations for swine...
Tags: swine flu, flu vaccination, Sarasota County Health Department, elementary schools, schools students, olympic torch, health officials, vaccination clinics
Protesters block Olympic torch relay
Victoria :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Anti-Olympic activists forced the 2010 Olympic torch run to divert from its planned route Friday night as the relay headed toward what was supposed to be a triumphant finale at the B.C. legislature. Several hundred protesters, angry that billions are...
Tags: olympic torch, Victoria International Airport, torch relay, Simon Whitfield, Catriona Le May Doan, winter games, Vancouver, relay starts, protesters blocks, vancouver winter
Crosby to carry Olympic torch before 2010 Games
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility He will be one of 12,000 torch-bearers who will carry the flame across Canada before the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Looking for more from the Post-Gazette?...You'll get exclusive sports content, opinion, financial information, discounts from retailers...
Tags: Sidney Crosby, olympic torch, Nova Scotia, Canada, Vancouver Canucks
Shania Twain to carry Olympic torch through hometown of Timmins, Ont.
Timmins :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Shania Twain will carry the Olympic torch through her northern Ontario hometown of Timmins. The pop-country superstar says the honour "is certain to be one of the most memorable experiences of my life." Continued Below Twain says on her website that...
Tags: olympic torch, Timmins Olympic Community Celebration, Shania Twain
Torch relay reality: A lot more driving than running
Vancouver :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. AM EDT B anish romantic thoughts of the famed Olympic torch being carried along the country's frozen highways by bundled-up, rosy-cheeked runners on its way to Vancouver for the opening...
Tags: olympic torch, torch relay, relay team, Canada, Vancouver
Queen, Obama invited to 2010 Olympic Games
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama could both be guests of honour at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Games CEO John Furlong confirmed Wednesday that a formal invitation has gone out to Queen Elizabeth. "But we haven't been given an answer yet," he said. As to Obama,...
Tags: Vancouverites, Barack Obama, olympic torch
Olympic torch 'looks like a joint'
Vancouver :: Canada | 6 months ago
Credibility Winter Olympics in Vancouver are taking the mellow approach to suggestions that their planned Olympic torch looks like a marijuana cigarette. "We're not worried about it at all," Dave Cobb, the executive vice-president of the Vancouver Organising Committee...
Tags: Vancouver Organising Committee, olympic ticket, olympic torch
B.C. teen first to carry Olympic torch in 2010
Toronto :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Moreno is also a member of her high school leadership program and after school wants to attend university to study kinetics and nutrition...After it is formally lit in Olympia, Greece, the flame is brought to Canada, sparking the relay in Victoria on...
Tags: Patricia Moreno, Vancouver, torch relay, olympic torch, vancouver woman
Special Olympics Torch Makes NYC Visit
Boise :: ID :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility In less than one week, law enforcement officials and Special Olympics athletes will carry the Special Olympics torch down the streets of Washington, D.C. following Barack Obama's inauguration. The Washington, D.C. stop will be one of three U.S. cities...
Tags: special olympic, olympic torch
Saskatoon StarPhoenix: City part of torch run
Victoria :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility The torch will arrive in Saskatoon on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, at noon. A local organizing committee will look after the community celebrations during the torch visit to the city. While the relay route through the city has not been finalized, Olympic organizers...
Tags: olympic torch, olympics
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