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For immediate release – Saturday, February 6, 2010

Police to receive "Olympic Legacies"
Vancouver, Richmond police departments to move into Games related digs
by Dawn Paley, February 4, 2010, Vancouver Media Coop
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2602

Anti-Olympic activists plan massive disruption on opening day of Vancouver Olympics
By Ian MacLeod , The Province/Canwest News Service, February 5, 2010
http://www.theprovince.com/sports/2010wintergames/sports/2010wintergames...

Aboriginal groups divided on whether to support Olympics
80 of B.C.'s 203 bands refuse to participate because government and Vanoc ignore 'horrific levels of poverty,' their leader says
By Kim Pemberton, Vancouver Sun, February 6, 2010
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/Aboriginal%20groups%2...

‘We are absolutely a threat to these Games’: ORN
By Geoff Dembicki February 4, 2010
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Olympics2010/2010/02/04/ORN-threat-Olymp...

The Olympics Resistance Network drew battle lines with just over a week until Vancouver’s opening ceremonies.

Torch relay video ignites frustration
By Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, February 2, 2010
/www.ctvolympics.ca/torch/news/newsid=29734.html

Before their run with the Olympic flame, torchbearers are loaded

Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver crackdown on homeless
Canada's £3.5bn 2010 winter games have triggered a cruel cleanup, critics claim
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/03/vancouver-winter-olympics-homeless-...
Lucy Hyslop guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 February 2010 21.20 GMT

The Disaster 2010 Olympics continues to unfold...
Olympic floating-hotel scheme sinks
CBC News, Tuesday, February 2, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/02/bc-cruise-shi...

Who Are the 2010 Protesters?
Within their ranks are several distinct strands, and styles, of dissent. A primer on their issues and demands.
By Geoff Dembicki, February 2, 2010, TheTyee.ca
http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/02/02/2010Protestors/