by John Horn | Aug 7, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
By the end of today, one of Vancouver’s coolest community builders will be on a brain-drain-plane headed for Melbourne, Australia. [Editor’s note: it is his being on a plane that cause our typical GTKYC interview to be replaced by a more over-arching...
by John Horn | Mar 21, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
John and Kurt Watch Some Football Kurt’s Amazing Narrative Late in the afternoon on Saturday, March 19, we were on our feet in a jammed stadium at Empire Field next to Vancouver’s Empire Bowl. Surrounded by roughly 23,000 screaming blue and white fans, we...
by Kurt Heinrich | Sep 6, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s been an exciting time for a number of young men who herald from the Downtown Eastside. After over a year of practice, eight young men (six of whom are from First Nations around BC) will be heading to Rio on September 15 to represent Canada in the Homeless...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jul 2, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
The Setup – Editors’ Cultural Editorials The last couple of weeks have been big news in the world of soccer. Who would have thought it. Italy and France, super powers of the European and World soccer tournaments out in the first round. France fell out of the...
by potential | Jun 24, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
After 80 years of waiting, Africa’s history has been modified and strengthened by hosting FIFA world cup 2010. The vuvuzelas, the heavy traffic and city modernization efforts initiated and executed by South Africans to bring the 2010 soccer extravaganza to...
