by mvboronowski | Nov 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last week the population of our global community hit and surpassed seven billion. We started out pretty slowly, but – over the last few decades – we’ve exploded our baby-making and alive-people-keeping, which has resulted in our planet’s...
by mvboronowski | Nov 2, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Some might say B.C. came out with the shorter end of the stick after the results of Canada’s $33 billion Shipbuilding bidding process were announced earlier this month. While Nova Scotia scored $25 billion to build snazzy warships, Vancouver’s Seaspan...
by mvboronowski | Nov 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Pop Culture Career Advice
It was about an hour before game day. The Washington Huskies were taking on the Arizona Wildcats and it was do or die time for the Huskies after being crushed last week by Stanford. At least that’s the story according to the local university newspaper, which had...
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...
