by mvboronowski | Jan 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
About a month ago, Potentiality Correspondent Steve Sloot and I were having a brainstorm of a chat about his going away party (he’s since left for France to, get this, learn French – what a guy). As we tend to do, Steve and I got to riffing and idea-making...
by mvboronowski | Jan 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Early 20th century American novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, “you can never go home again.” He was talking about the change in yourself and your birthplace through the passage of time and never being able to recapture what you’d romanticized in your mind as you...
by mvboronowski | Jan 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Art, live performance and theatre are essential to any sort of vibrant and cultured city. Sometimes art can be stuffy, populated by wealthy people mingling over canapes and wine as they take in the latest abstract work of art on show at the Vancouver Art Gallery....
by mvboronowski | Jan 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
The idea was launched in 2007 by newly elected President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. His government proposes to give up economical benefits that would engender the exploitation of vast oil fields situated in the Ecuadorian Amazon. To do so, he hopes northern countries,...
by mvboronowski | Jan 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
I have a compelling reason for you to watch Canada AM tomorrow morning. And the reason is Clint Landrock. Clint Landrock makes small things that are having a huge impact at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver and beyond. Not only is Clint married to friend of the...
by mvboronowski | Jan 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
In the US, the crime rate is down. Significantly. While crime had once soared sharply in the late 1960s and early 1970s (does anyone remember the days of the “crack epidemic”), it has since declined steeply since 1993. The marked change in a trend that has...
