Topic: Vancouver
Vancouver will host the Winter Deaflympics in 2015, the Deaflympic Organizing Committee announced Friday at the 2010 Paralympics. More than 650 deaf athletes from 29 countries will compete in 27 events in Vancouver and Whistler, DJ Lampitt, chief executive of the Vancouver 2015 Deaflympics Organizing Committee said. The Games will include alpine and cross-country skiing, curling, ice hockey and snowboard ...
Canada jumps into spring after having recorded the mildest and driest winter on record, Environment Canada reported Friday. The agency, which has compiled data from 1948, determined the average temperature throughout the country was four degrees Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, said meteorologist Andre Cantin. Cantin said the country also saw 20 percent less precipitation than normal, also a ...
