by mvboronowski | Dec 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: I must start by saying that what unfolds below is a team effort – thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! So, for better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied – and in some places, like Vancouver,...
by mvboronowski | Dec 2, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last month, in the week leading up to Remembrance Day, Vancouverites were treated to the odd sight of two warships tied up at Canada Place: the Canadian destroyer, The Algonquin and, much more bizarrely, the missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of Russia’s...
by mvboronowski | Dec 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Each year, youth charity organization Mission Australia conducts Australia’s largest formal survey of young people. Over three months each year the survey asks Australians aged 11 to 24 what they value, where they turn for advice and support, what issues concern them,...
by mvboronowski | Nov 29, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
[Editor’s note: I must start by saying that what unfolds below is a team effort – thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list! So, for better or worse, many parts of the world have been recently occupied – and in some places, like Vancouver,...
by mvboronowski | Nov 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
Here in Vancouver it’s November gross outside. “John, what does November gross mean?” you ask. Well, it means that the temperature hovers around 0° Celsius, it’s probably drizzling or raining or slushing, everything is dark and grey, and an...
