Attendees

  • Sakura - marketer, organic chef, healer
  • Jay
  • Brent
  • Dawn
  • David - The Crows - DTES (The Newiest neighbourhood in the Nation)
  • Kris

Minutes

  • Citizen Run Police Oversight Committee
    • Lawyer backup
      • Court cases who handle abuses
      • Academics who study corruption, abuse of police power
      • Which communities are the best right now
      • Which cities do the abuses usually happen in
    • Building the core team
    • We want to work with you to share with the public all of the good you are doing, and share what the challenges are
    • Ask for support from marginalized communities
    • PIAC?
    • Overabundance of Caution
    • No idea how many arrests under MHA or C51
  • How can I never go grocery shopping ever again
    • Amazon -
    • Safeway does delivery
    • Munchies Delivery
    • Daily Delivery
    • $50-100/week - Dawn
    • Canada is the hardest place to find cheap, healthy food
    • Japadog has hamburgers for under $4 at Pender & Granville
    • Monthly membership to standard cafes that have 2 meals a week
      • 3 options on the menu
      • don’t treat me like a normal customer.
      • 1 vegan, 1 meat one.
      • No choice.
      • Angry I have to decide what to eat.
      • Places with a port to the outside.
      • Like a soup of the day
      • A bulk, pre-paid thing
      • Biz side: social/entrepreneurship
      • Caveman Cafe
    • Cheap meals in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • To make home schooling popular world wide
    • ithinkedu.com?
    • technical, not academic
    • mentors, not teachers
    • find someone famous in the industry to get the credit
      • exam would be what the mentor challenges you with
    • SelfDesign
    • Grade 1-12, college; was industrial age, no longer valid
    • Mentor matching system
    • Parents don’t yet recognize these students
    • Parents trust the old way of thinking
    • Traditional schooling is like 1000 years old, like Ming Dynasty old.
    • Blake Boles
    • Find communities that are more sympathetic to the idea
    • Utah & North Dakota are OK, becase of religion
    • Find rich places that did this, and Asia markets will be OK to copy this model
    • Homeschooling for excellence
    • Get testimonials
    • Easy to critivcise public education, instead, work with them/compliment them
    • Some kids do well in institutionalized schooling - need the structure
    • Are you good at teaching yourself?
    • Flipped Classroom
  • A third place (community cafe) - co-work with more food
    • Save people’s time instead of eating out
    • Learn, Eat, Work, in the same place
    • Third Place
    • Why don’t we have them in Vancouver
    • Vancouver Community Spaces
    • this is open space
    • Groundswell (wants $90/hour)
    • “Don’t believe in the future of non-profits” - Sakura
    • “This will be the last generation of grants” - Dawn
    • Social enterprises - works for new, older non-profits
    • Community Centre - not for students
  • A way to make houses energy efficient
    • Companies pay for your retrofit, make profit, then goes to house owner
    • What happens if people leave windows open after retrofit?
    • Kris: Convince renters if they keep bill under x, they save y % of their bills