by potential | Mar 20, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Ben, my husband, is spending the summer working at an intentional community on Vancouver Island, called O.U.R. Ecovillage. We visited O.U.R. for the first time in September, during one of their regular open houses. We joined the residents for a public event about...
by potential | Mar 19, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
This article was co-written by Robert Bryce and Peter Mackenzie. Grandma used to say, “Some people can fall into a bucket of crap and climb out smelling like a rose”. As we grow older, we start to realize the wisdom behind those words. Why do some people...
by Kurt Heinrich | Mar 18, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Who are you? A guy who loves being around his family. Psychiatry is a passion of mine, and I am fortunate to practice and teach at both Saint Paul’s Hospital and UBC Hospital; also, I combine my clinical work with research on mental health. What do you do for fun? I...
by Kurt Heinrich | Mar 16, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
On a dark and rainy Wednesday, Octopi took to the field in a semi-final match against the undefeated English/Irish soccer squad Nomads FC. It was the same team who’d broken the back of yours and my favorite urban rec soccer team in the first game of the season...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Mar 15, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
For several years now, ever since I’ve lived near English Bay, I’ve been noticing this odd sight out on the water. Once in a while, there’s this Viking ship out there. That’s right, with that characteristic striped orange sail, oars and what...
by John Horn | Mar 14, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: people, the Editor-in-Chief of this blog loves basketball, higher education, community, competition, and when they all slam together in a mess of cheers, tears, body-paint, over-achievement, and ridiculously awesome excitingly uncontrollable...
