by mvboronowski | Jun 15, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Last night Michelle Burtnyk-Horn, Alex Grant and I took in a fantastically edutaining (education + entertainment = awesome) literary wrap-up for the KidSafe Writers’ Room readers and writers from Queen Alexandra Elementary School. The very awesome Sarah Maitland...
by mvboronowski | Jun 13, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
I accepted an awesome new job a month ago. It was a long process and here’s what I learned along the way: Ask questions – I realized about a year ago that I needed a change. I wasn’t sure how to move forward so I started thinking about the big questions, like...
by mvboronowski | Jun 11, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors’ note: Kurt and John are firm believers that Vancouver can and should be the Canadian epicenter for growing the sport and culture of soccer football soccer. This is a self-described healthy community. We can play outside year-round, as fields are rarely closed...
by mvboronowski | Jun 7, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
In Vancouver it isn’t uncommon to see a coffee shop juxtaposed to a coffee shop juxtaposed to a coffee shop across the street from a coffee shop, especially in my neighbourhood, Mount Pleasant. And yesterday things in my community just got a bit darker, frothier...
by mvboronowski | Jun 6, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
On May 31st, 4,500 CP Rail brakemen, engineers, and conductors walked off the job and freight operations at Canada’s second largest railway ground to a halt. For businesses dependent on trains to get their goods to market, this was an instant catastrophe....
