Grow What You Eat!
Grow what you eat on Friday, March 2nd from 7 – 11pm at Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carall Street, Gastown. Victory Gardens, an urban farming business from Vancouver BC, is pleased to announce the launch of their first growing season…
Prince Rupert – BC’s ‘Little Port that Could’
It’s been a while since I waxed poetic about ports. Last year I went on at some length about Port Metro Vancouver, how it’s this engine of Canadian economic growth, moving monumental quantities of trade in an understated, almost hum…
OMG! I saw LMFAO!!
Editor’s note: I must begin this article with a sincere apology to Mike and my teammates who play on our awesome team in the UBC Rec Tier 1 Mens Basketball. Last Thursday I missed our game and it wasn’t for…
Sea Planes: #Awesome Community Builders
Seaplanes are boats that fly. How cool is that?! On that basis alone I’m going to make it a goal for 2012 to fly in one. Heck, I might even get behind the controls, or at least get to sit…
Marital Intuition: it’s kind of a funny story…
Last night was a weird and wonderful one. So, I arrive home – chatting on the phone – to find my lovely wife, Michelle Burtnyk-Horn, in the living room working away on her computer. I hang up, give her a…
Streetfront Builds a Community for Troubled Youth Around Running
Hidden away in a pair of joined portables on the cusp of Britannia Secondary’s property is one of the Vancouver School Board’s most dynamic and inspiring programs. It’s called Streetfront. Captained by Head Teacher Trevor Stokes, Streefront is an alternative…
Lessons in Culinary Community Building
Picture a long festive table decked with candles and lined with a dozen smiling faces. Surely, all the ingredients for sharing of food, laughter and good conversation? Well, not so much. As I sat down excited to spend the evening…
The Early Entrepreneurs Experiment
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…
How to Shelter Everyone – Lessons from First United Church
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…
Amazing Sports Fusion
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 flowing…