by mvboronowski | Sep 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My favourite podcast is Stop Podcasting Yourself, starring Dave Shumka and Graham Clark (@daveshumka @grahamclark on the Twitter). For the record, I subscribe to, like, 10 podcasts and my actual favourite is CBC’s This is That, but, technically it’s really...
by mvboronowski | Sep 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Ontario is on the cusp of a provincial election. It is one of a number of provincial and territorial elections that will be happening before the end of 2011, including Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest...
by mvboronowski | Sep 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
“So, how do we know who’s human? If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was really me?” Keith David in The Thing As if possessed by some dark malevolence, hordes of otherwise well-adjusted young citizens, danced around the blazing...
by mvboronowski | Sep 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
For the past few weeks I’ve been deployed to Churchill Secondary School with other VSB exempt staff. We’ve been tasked with supervising school lunch. Each day I arrive at 11:40 and plant myself in front of the lunch line. When the bell rings, the lunch...
by mvboronowski | Sep 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
There’s a little place right down the bottom of Australia called Tasmania. It’s the tiny island that everyone always forgets about when they draw a map of Australia, and it’s the state that Australians love to publicly ridicule for being a little bit backwards when it...