by mvboronowski | Aug 12, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Siddartha, by Herman Hesse, is the story of a life that chooses to question all ideology. The story is set in India at some point in its past and tells the story of a man’s life. Siddartha is a privileged, brahmin youth who is raised to become a priest and leader of...
by mvboronowski | Aug 11, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Yesterday afternoon Whitecaps FC players Jeb Brovsky, Shea Salinas, Bilal Duckett and Jonathan Leathers joined dozens of street soccer players at Oppenheimer park for a pick up game and meet and greet. It was an amazing afternoon for many players who’ve faced...
by mvboronowski | Aug 8, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last week, John and I went on an adventure in the wilderness. After weeks of accumulating supplies, preparing menus, going on test hikes, and becoming far too acquainted with the staff at MEC, we set out on the Juan De Fuca Trail on Vancouver Island’s West Coast....
by mvboronowski | Aug 7, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
By the end of today, one of Vancouver’s coolest community builders will be on a brain-drain-plane headed for Melbourne, Australia. [Editor’s note: it is his being on a plane that cause our typical GTKYC interview to be replaced by a more over-arching...
by mvboronowski | Aug 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
We’ve all heard a lot about it these days. It really is doom and gloom as critics point out that the cuts just won’t go deep enough to avert an economic Apocalypse. Raise taxes some say. Cut spending others say. Don’t raise the debt ceiling, said a...