By IAN BAILEY, Toronto Globe and Mail

With a grizzly bear straddling him, so close he could smell its "musky, wet-dog smell," Rory Chapple knew he had one shot at avoiding a mauling or death.

The veteran bow hunter, flat on his back after tripping, with the 600-pound sow looming over him, pulled an arrow from the quiver on his compound bow and plunged it into the bear's chin.

The Jamaican bobsled team is back, descendants of the squad that floundered and flipped their way into the world's consciousness at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Maryke Bruin and Jelle Groot, tourists from Holland, were taking a few holiday snaps of the Vancouver 2010 Countdown Clock on Thursday, and figuring the timepiece on one side of the Vancouver Art Gallery looked pretty good.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- In a city where gangs have been linked to a tide of fatal shootings, it's one thing to tell children that a thug's lifestyle is a bad idea.But Vancouver police are doing more than just lecturing.