The Vancouver Vagabond series, multiple stories over a decade on either side of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, has evolved and transformed as various stories have emerged through time. 2012's VVII (and its counterpart VANdaliSM 2013) arose from the rare chance that the Vancouver Canucks should come as close to Stanley Cup victory as they did, and in the year directly following the Olympics when Vancouverites had just known both the ecstasy of hosting the event at home while attaining international hockey supremacy with their Gold win over all, including finally, the USA. A highly unique parallel was thus drawn between the two street-sweepin' public-party events, the city's volatile politics and the homelessness crisis that would cement itself in theories that gave rise to the Occupy movement that would erupt Sept 17 2011 onward in NYC following the mayhem in Vancouver.