by John Horn | Dec 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last week I was lucky enough to work with Sarah Maitland and the Kidsafe Writers’ Room team to create and deliver some superawesome – and super educational – literacy programming for kids from East Vancouver during their Winter Holiday Break. The...
by John Horn | Dec 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
This is all kinds of community-awesome. Earlier today, Friend of The ‘Boot, Zac Whyte, shared the video below, which is a very awesome Taylor Conroy’s Destroy Normal campaign. Check it out here: Simply put, there needs to be more of this. Later this week...
by potential | Dec 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
The financial crisis has tarnished many myths that have been presented as truths during the last decade or so – for example, lower taxes inevitably create wealth, autoregulation works, money trickles down, etc. However, many ideological and concrete elements of the...
by Kurt Heinrich | Dec 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Nothing spoils Christmas like thought of dozens of people sleeping outside in cold, wet Vancouver weather. It’s been an ongoing struggle for years and isn’t likely to change anytime soon. In 2008, shortly after the municipal election and right before the...
by John Horn | Dec 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s a well known sports fact that the Vancouver Canucks build pre-game team-based-community-winning awesomeness by playing soccer. After all, with so many players from different national and cultural backgrounds, it makes sense for the guys to get their blood...
by John Horn | Dec 21, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
No, this isn’t a post about one of the greatest movies of 2011, In Time starring Justin Timberlake, which totally should’ve been called Justin Time starring Justin Timberlake, by the way. This post is about holiday giving. The other day, my Superphone...
