Over To You, Vancouver

So it is hello B.C. after all.
Skate Canada has just announced Vancouver will be the site for the 2008 Canadian championships.
Dates for the event: Jan. 16-20, 2008.
It's the fifth time Canada's third-largest city will play host to the nationals, but the first since 1997. The 2001 world championships were also held in Vancouver.
The venue for next year's event will be Pacific Coliseum, also home base for the figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
“It's a great opportunity for our athletes to have a home country experience prior to the 2010 Games,” said Skate Canada CEO William Thompson.
Canadians has been shortened to five days because of the expected elimination of the senior qualifying rounds from the 2008 schedule. Senior qualifying for both men and women will be done at the East/West Challenge event in December.
Vancouver must conduct a test event at the Coliseum prior to 2010, but it has to be international in nature. If history means anything, that event should wind up being the 2009 Four Continents Championship. Salt Lake City used the 4Cs as its test event prior to the 2002 Winter Games.