“Vancouver” on The Daily Caller

For the fifth year in a row, Vancouver topped the list of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s most livable cities report, which is determined by a combination of environment, health care, culture. According to Reuters, Vancouver received an almost perfect score of 98 percent in the 2011 liveability study.  The remainder of the top 10 spots were dominated by Australia and Canada. Last year’s second place city, Vienna, was dethroned by Melbourne. (more)

After more than two years, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have decided to end their marriage, a source close to the couple tells UsMagazine.com. (more)

The Hollywood actor best known for his role as deadbeat cousin Eddie in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and his wife will be released from custody on $10,000 bail each after asking for refugee protection in Canada during an immigration hearing on Friday. (more)

It was just a matter of time before the conversation wound around to Winston Churchill. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway ventured outside the country briefly for a weekend fundraiser in Canada with a group of trial lawyers. (more)

“Why is this such a big deal?” a mother asked La Center police while being arrested for allegedly leaving her 3-year-old son locked in her car for more than eight hours while she gambled in a casino, police say. (more)

WASHINGTON — On the play that gave Alex Ovechkin his 50th goal, overtaking Sidney Crosby for the NHL lead, Washington Capitals linemate Nicklas Backstrom collected his 100th point of the season with an assist. (more)

Sexy Nina, a longtime Vancouver-area escort who owns a bawdy house near the city’s downtown, had been looking forward to an influx of foreign clients during February’s Olympic Games. (more)

Sports minister Vitaly Mutkov said Tuesday that he was ready to step down, becoming the first top official to react to President Dmitry Medvedev’s call for resignations after the country’s lackluster showing at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. (more)

After a dismal showing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expects a different result when Russia hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. On Monday, March 1, 2010, Medvedev mandated that Russian Olympic officials quit or be fired due to placing 11^th in the medals table and earning only three golds. Russia’s performance paled in comparison to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, where Russia placed fifth with 22 medals, eight of which were gold. (more)

It’s the Olympic hockey equivalent of the walk of shame: The long, winding catacomb of barriers bringing players from the ice through the media to the locker room. On Saturday night, Slovakia made the walk; on Sunday, it was Team USA, taking little joy in the silver consolation prizes hanging around their necks. (more)

President Dmitry Medvedev called Monday for officials in charge of preparing Russian athletes for the Winter Olympics to resign after the country suffered its worst-ever performance in Vancouver. (more)

Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and personal friend of President Obama’s, on Saturday took a highly public stand against the president’s health care plan and against his intentions to “ram” a bill through Congress, warning that such a move will “divide and bankrupt America.” (more)

Just because you play sports in chilly weather doesn’t mean you can’t be hot. (more)

Talking to Alan Wurtzel, President of Research, NBC Universal from his Vancouver based “The Billion Dollar Lab Initiative” is very interesting. Wurtzel and his crew of world class numbers crunchers are tracking our Olympic viewing habits the same way The Elias Sports Bureau breaks down baseball stats. (more)

Every day, someone sends me a puzzling e-mail in which he tells me what he’s had for breakfast. And it’s not within the context of a larger narrative, or because I’ve asked him what he eats for breakfast, or to agitate some kind of Hegelian dialectic—nor is it particularly friendly. It’s simply declarative: “Today I had a corn muffin.” Or, “Today I had a Spanish Omelet.” I’m not sure if this is his attempt at engaging me—does he want to know what I had for breakfast? Or if it’s just his way of documenting his eating habits. In any case, it just isn’t the kind of information with which I can do anything of real consequence. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, I keep them all. (more)

The body of Andrew Koenig was found Thursday in Vancouver, British Colombia, according to CNN. During a news conference in Stanley Park today, his father, Star Trek actor Walter Koenig confirmed the news and told reporters that his son committed suicide. (more)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–The good news for Microsoft is that all the PCs powering the Olympics are running Windows. The bad news: it’s the older Windows XP operating system. (more)

The parents of missing actor Andrew Koenig walked out on CNN host Larry King, moments before they were to go on the show last night. Walter and Judy Koenig arrived at the studio to do an interview, but left minutes before they were set to go live. Danielle Koenig, Andrew’s sister, appeared on the show and discussed the toll that her brother’s disappearance saying, “[Andrew] does suffer from depression, so we’re very, very worried about him, and we just want to find him.” (more)

Amidst all of the excitement about the Vancouver Olympics and consternation over the still-lingering jobless recovery, there was a flickering, glimmering light that sparked in the ashes of this nasty recession about a week ago and hardly anyone noticed.
The Fed announced a teeny-tiny rate hike on the money they loan the largest banks. (more)