by mvboronowski | Sep 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Some things go well together. Peas and carrots. Redheads and green (at least according to Theo Lamb) and of course, BBQ and Labour Day weekend. This weekend I was lucky enough to get an invite from BBQ-lover Mike Worth. Pitched outside the Waldorf Hotel, Re-Up BBQ was...
by mvboronowski | Sep 2, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
I’m writing this on a sunny Saturday afternoon and I just returned from Our Community Bikes (OCB), which is located on Main Street in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver. As part of the PEDAL Collective, OCB provides an inclusive space for people who...
by mvboronowski | Sep 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
As it turns out, the recipe for Community is very simple; Singing in public, beer, and a little dash of wild animal. Surprisingly, I am not talking about drunken nights of karaoke (exclusively). I recently spent 6 weeks studying in Copenhagen, Denmark and followed...
by mvboronowski | Aug 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve never tipped my hat to another man walking down the street. It’s not that they didn’t deserve the salutation, but I would have looked like a damn dufus had I done it. Or perhaps it’s just not quite with the times (like the word dufus). With my friends, I hug...
by mvboronowski | Aug 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
10 days ago we gathered around a large steaming pot in a backyard. The power was out from a fast moving thunderstorm an hour or so ago. Armed with thermometers, hydrometers, copper coils, vinyl tubing and a handful of books guiding us through the next few hours we...
by mvboronowski | Aug 29, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Congratulations, Canada! Your people take fewer holidays than folks in any other nation on Earth. Even China. That’s right, we here in the Great White North work more hours than people in a country that is in possession of a socio-political ideology that fuses...
