by mvboronowski | Mar 17, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s strange to give someone, on the other side of the world, news about a calamitous event near them. I was skyping with myMum in Australia and mentioned that there had been an earthquake that morning in Christchurch. Not having she turned on the TV to get the news....
by mvboronowski | Mar 16, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: people, the Editor-in-Chief of this blog is very, very excited. Over the next three weeks, American-import and mustached-BFF, Alex Grant, and I will engage in witticisms and precarious predictions pertaining to the NCAA Men’s Basketball...
by mvboronowski | Mar 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Because our growing season in Toronto is fairly short, many of my favourite vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, onions, and leeks, need an early start. It is easy to start seeds in your own home and I know many people that have had success with little or...
by mvboronowski | Mar 14, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Most of us “pinkos” are familiar with Fox News, American conservative talk radio and all the angry boomers that comprise the Tea Party movement. In fact, these days, it’s hard to not see their revolutionary impact splattered across the television...
by mvboronowski | Mar 11, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I am in mourning – bereft to learn that the 2011 Victoria Tall Ships Festival has been cancelled due to “Tough economic times.” Maybe a corporate saviour will pull the festival off its economic sandbank? It happened with English Bay’s...
by mvboronowski | Mar 10, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of attending a book launch for Timothy Taylor’s new book, The Blue Light Project. For someone who professes to love books as much as I do (and I do), I was a bit embarrassed that this was my first time attending a book launch, and...
