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Startup Weekend Toronto

I attended Startup Weekend Toronto this past weekend. Startup Weekend is a convergence developers, designers, and marketers converge in cities around the world to take a startup from idea to launch within 54 hours. Ie. A weekend of insanity. Here’s what happened (I’ll comment on what I learned in a follow up post) Hundreds of [...]

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Content & Connecting

On Content. I’ve been a bad blogger this year. I’ve got a well of content still brimming up in me, but I haven’t had the discipline to get it all out yet (I partly blame this one) The other reason is that like much of my real life, my online content is quite scattered, and [...]

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I’ll kill you all…

One of my favorite talks out of TEDxToronto this year. The pause on the closing line was brilliant.

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Vox Toronto

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If you’ve been to any of my past SolarCrash Events,  you’ll love what’s going down with Vox Toronto. If you’re in Toronto this Thursday evening, drop by Tranzac for a night to highlight creativity, humanity and social causes – specifically Habitat for Humanity Toronto and the crisis in Pakistan.  FB event link. The evening will be [...]

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Haiti – broken | beautiful

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The next Solar Crash Event will be emerging from the rubble this Saturday evening at the El Mocambo night club downtown Toronto. As with every event there will be great local artists along with new experimental elements.  We’ll be exploring themes of beauty amidst brokenness.  You can still RSVP yourselves on the FB event page. [...]

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Why Toronto Matters

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Continuing my last couple posts on “God’s bias for the city” and “why cities matter” some thoughts on why the City of Toronto matters. Toronto is the most ethnically and culturally diverse urban area on planet earth. Half of its citizens are visible minorities. You can find glimpses of the entire world in one city.  [...]

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God’s bias for the City

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Photo by Diez Just as God has a clear bias towards the poor, the scriptures also reveal that God’s heart leans towards the city. From Genesis God calls for humanity to be fruitful and multiply. Not simply to reproduce (otherwise Jesus would’ve done a terrible job with this mandate), but to cultivate life in the [...]

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Project SWAP

Project SWAP is happening this Saturday rain or shine. S.W.A.P. – Shopping with a Purpose is a charity garage sale with a twist. Food, fashion shows, music, and friends! With all proceeds going to Youth Without Shelter. RSVP Here. What creative ideas have you come across that integrate arts and justice in an event?

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