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With the 10th anniversary of Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics upon us, we are looking back at some of the stories that were making the news in the Courier during those 17 days in February. This story was originally published Feb. 19, 2010 article continues below Trending Stories Vancouver is my home. I like it here, and after living here for 15 years, I’m glad the city is hosting thousands of visitors and receiving extensive foreign media coverage during the Games.

Home News Brody supporting Kirk LaPointe Leonard Brody. And then there were two. Leonard Brody announced Thursday morning he was dropping out of the race to be the NPA candidate for mayor and throwing his support behind rival Kirk LaPointe. article continues below Trending Stories Brody, the co-founder of NowPublic, made the announcement in an email circulated Thursday morning. “I wanted to come to my own conclusion before the [NPA] board meets next week,” Brody said in the emailed statement.

As of this writing, we’ve published well over 100 stories and opinion pieces focused on Saturday’s civic election. We covered breaking news and attended all-candidates meetings. We parsed out statements at press conferences and asked questions we believed voters cared about. We published 11 features, digging into the issues of housing, open government and campaign financing. We produced three online live streaming Q&A’s with mayoral candidates.