Canada
"2010 Homes Not 2010 Games!"
“Spirit” of Resistance. Anti-Olympics protestors flocked by the dozens Sunday to the departure of the CP Olympic Spirit train from Port Moody on the start of its cross-Canada campaign to raise support for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Octogenarian Vancouver mayoral…
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Canada Day at Canada Place
Vancouver celebrates July 1. Series previously unpublished. Flag cheeks. Canada Place, Vancouver. Maple leaves. Noses. Ballot stuffing at the face painting booth. Volunteers at an info booth. An aboriginal boy writes a protest slogan in chalk during a land rights…
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Freedom Booth
Protestors on a sit-in for Tibetan freedom outside the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China on Granville Street, Vancouver.
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A Night at the Chinatown Markets
Smoke break on a balcony overlooking the Chinatown Night Market. For three nights every week between May and September, a one-block stretch of Keefer Street is cordoned off from traffic and opened up to vendors, hawkers and buskers, each selling…
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A Lion on Hastings
A group of well-rehearsed schoolchildren and their adult leaders/percussionists toured their lion dance routine along Hastings Street this morning as part of Burnaby Heights’ annual Hats Off Day festival. “Picking the lettuce” in front of a local greengrocer. The tradition…
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