by mvboronowski | Oct 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Last week my friend sent me a few emails to see if I’d updated my iPhone 4 to the new iOS 5 so that we could use iMessenger from his iPad. He texted me later to see if I’d updated yet. And then finally when all apps and updates were downloaded and installed I got...
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 | 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...
by mvboronowski | Aug 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
We’ve all heard a lot about it these days. It really is doom and gloom as critics point out that the cuts just won’t go deep enough to avert an economic Apocalypse. Raise taxes some say. Cut spending others say. Don’t raise the debt ceiling, said a...
by mvboronowski | Jul 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Eclipse Awards is one of my favourite companies in the world. Not just because they enable the celebration of excellence. Also because they are major players in the Strathcona Green Zone and their offices just planted about 200 strawberry plants in/on their green...
by mvboronowski | Jul 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Last Thursday – July 14, 2011 – I attended a fun, professional and meaningful event put on by the Sauder Africa Initiative. In addition to a supercool silent auction (I hope that I get the lantern and/or hiking poles I bid on…) and a snappy jazz trio...
