One year later: Vancouver 2010 Olympics ‘helped redefine us as a nation’

One year later: Vancouver 2010 Olympics ‘helped redefine us as a nation’
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary for the start of the 2010 Olympics and a professor who studies what makes Canadians tick says it helped redefine us as a nation.
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Bakewell, Bragg and Puttnam speak out as Lords debate arts funding cuts
In a two hour debate peers discuss arts spending, libraries and philanthropy – here are the highlights Yesterday saw arts funding debated in the House of Lords for the first time since the government cut money to Arts Council England by about 29% and national museums and galleries by 15%. Not to mention all the cuts to local authority budgets. It was a good rather sedate debate with around 25 …
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An extended at-bat
Barrie is home to a wide range of high-profile athletes. But not all of them were born and raised here. In fact, a great number of them came to this city for athletic purposes and simply never left.[…]
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