by mvboronowski | Oct 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
On Saturday, the Horn Family migrated to the seaside retirement town of Sidney – where, recent findings show, everyone’s grandmother lives. And we were there to celebrate the 90th birthday of my grandma, Virginia Horn. One of our family’s traditions...
by mvboronowski | Oct 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s almost a year today since my boyfriend and I arrived back in Australia after an epic two year travel adventure across Canada, the United States and South East Asia. Ironically, it’s also taken almost a year for us to pay-off the epic credit-card debt that we...
by mvboronowski | Oct 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
I just got off the phone with this blog’s Managing Editor, Kurt Heinrich. He told me that Vancouver Police have encouraged Occupy Vancouver participants to not wear masks. The theory behind this, I think, is that people behave differently – if not badly...
by mvboronowski | Oct 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve been driving more lately. Between a September packed full of work events, a commitment to camping every month since April (and hopefully every month through to March) and starting yesterday a transit strike in York Region, I’ve been seeing the inside...
by mvboronowski | Oct 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Photo courtesy of Fred Lum with the Globe and Mail. Several years ago I got a Blackberry as a gift from a friend. I’ve been hooked ever since. I like the streamlined push email notification. I like the rugged business simplicity of it all. I the way it looks and...
