by John Horn | Nov 14, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
The mega-company is called Walmart and its – or his/her, because corporations are people – motto is Save Money. Live Better. I will venture a guess that – ahem – about 99% of this blog’s readers do not believe that Wal-Mart, the...
by John Horn | Nov 11, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[Editor’s note: the article below is by a friend of the ‘boot named Meghan Spencer – on behalf of our team, Meghan, I thank you for this interesting and very community-minded contribution].“Nobody wants us, because we don’t have. People want somebody...
by potential | Nov 10, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My Dad’s favourite book of the year is Tim Ferriss’, The 4-Hour Body. At his insistence I had to check out the website where I found a bonus chapter, written by Dr. Seth Roberts, that really sent my mind on a tangent. I’ll explain it from the beginning… Dr. Roberts is...
by Kurt Heinrich | Nov 9, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
On Monday night St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church hosted a debate between Mayor Gregor Robertson and Councillor Suzanne Anton. The topic of the night was homelessness and was organized by End Homelessness Now. Located at 1012 Nelson Street (at Burrard Street), the...
by potential | Nov 8, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last night I attended the Rendezvous with Madness film festival. I was invited by a friend in the final year of her psychiatry residency that was on the panel following the film screening. It is the second time in a couple of weeks that I was at an event that had a...
by John Horn | Nov 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last week the population of our global community hit and surpassed seven billion. We started out pretty slowly, but – over the last few decades – we’ve exploded our baby-making and alive-people-keeping, which has resulted in our planet’s...
