by John Horn | Jul 23, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors’ note: Kurt and John are firm believers that Vancouver can and should be the Canadian epicenter for growing the sport and culture of soccer football soccer. This is a self-described healthy community. We can play outside year-round, as fields are rarely closed...
by John Horn | Jul 11, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
A few weeks ago, Australia Bureau Chief Jilly Charlwood contributed a fantastic article about Laneway Learning – below is some information about what Vancouver is doing to showcase some unique, behind-the-scenes communities – and potential – of its...
by John Horn | Jul 5, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Made famous by websites like “Kickstarter,” crowdfunding has become an easy and effective means of raising money for projects. Vancouver-based tech startup “Weeve” makes use of this practice to raise money for local community projects and is the first in the world...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Jul 4, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Posters and dioramas at Vancouver’s Canada Place, replica villages in Gananoque, Ontario, battle re-enactments at Toronto’s Fort York – these are all part and parcel of the Harper government’s bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812 taking...
by Kurt Heinrich | Jun 28, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Today it was announced that striker Long Tan has been traded from the Vancouver Whitecaps to DC United after starting only four games this season. Tan had played a lot more last season (though the scoreboard didn’t particularly reflect it), but it seems this...
