Canada

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games were solid gold for a Vancouver-based real estate developer specializing in luxury suites.

During a pep rally at a Winnipeg high school, a student recorded two of the school's teachers performing a sexually suggestive dance on the gym's floor, which has been since called "Two Teachers, One Chair".

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In time-honored tradition, the show went on. Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics' opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown by the crowd filling BC Place Stadium.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that Canadian agents violated the rights of the only Canadian citizen held at the Guantánamo Bay detention center when they interrogated him there. But the ruling, the second concerning the man’s politically sensitive case, does not order the government to demand his return to Canada, as he has long requested.

Posting a record-breaking year-over-year sales increase for December, bigger down payments and shorter amortization periods are among the measures being considered to cool off a rapidly heating Canadian real estate market that has seen seasonally adjusted sales rise for 11 straight months. But where some see a bubble others predict that prices will begin to come down as inventory returns to the market. See the following article from Property Wire for more on this.