by potential | Oct 27, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s almost a year today since my boyfriend and I arrived back in Australia after an epic two year travel adventure across Canada, the United States and South East Asia. Ironically, it’s also taken almost a year for us to pay-off the epic credit-card debt that we...
by potential | Sep 20, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Demonization. What a word. When I read it first I thought it was some kind of exorcism term. But after perusing the Currency Act of Canada (did you know we had an Act about currency? Bet you didn’t.) and some of its associated literature I became quite familiar...
by potential | Sep 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
As it turns out, the recipe for Community is very simple; Singing in public, beer, and a little dash of wild animal. Surprisingly, I am not talking about drunken nights of karaoke (exclusively). I recently spent 6 weeks studying in Copenhagen, Denmark and followed...
by potential | Aug 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve never tipped my hat to another man walking down the street. It’s not that they didn’t deserve the salutation, but I would have looked like a damn dufus had I done it. Or perhaps it’s just not quite with the times (like the word dufus). With my friends, I hug...
by John Horn | 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...