by mvboronowski | Jul 17, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? I work as a professional storyteller. In my spare time I volunteer on a variety of community initiatives like Portland FC, a soccer team based in the Downtown Eastside. What do you do for fun? I like to cook, cycle, read, chillax, eat French and Japanese...
by mvboronowski | Jul 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Poverty accounts for huge costs on our society. And not just the ones incurred by the massive losses suffered by our human capital because of all our wasted talent. There are financial costs, too. Big ones. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives just released a...
by mvboronowski | Jul 14, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
This little ditty is courtesy of Darren Barefoot’s facebook wall (thanks Darren!). Kinda puts all our “first world problems” in perspective. Short, punchy and ironic. I love...
by mvboronowski | Jul 13, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
A few years ago, I taught history in a Cegep (for those not familiar with the concept, Cegeps are Québec educational institutions that regroup technical formations with pre-university ones, more or less the equivalent of 12th grade and first year of university put...
by mvboronowski | Jul 12, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
This past weekend, John and I went on an awesome hike in Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park. After parking our car at the trailhead, we hiked 5.5 kilometers and about 250 vertical meters to Greendrop Lake. We encountered many different types of terrain and many different...
