In the flesh: CrackBerry.com founder riffs on RIM, Communitech and the Waterloo Way “I’m seeing just how great an area Waterloo and Kitchener is for technology; it’s really impressive just to see the amount of talent in this region, and maybe more importantly, to see how people embrace it.” - Kevin Michaluk, CrackBerry.com Full Story…
Finding answers to the Waterloo ‘why?’ “The thread that connects all these elements is also the toughest thing to explain to those who haven’t yet come here to see it for themselves: the culture of curiosity, collaboration and compassion that has informed the Waterloo soil since its earliest days as a Mennonite farming community.” Full story…
Anthony Reinhart, who describes himself as a recovering journalist, left The Globe and Mail to take on the role of staff writer at Communitech in June, 2011 after 23 years as a newspaper reporter. A fifth-generation Waterloo Region resident, he spent his first two years at The Guelph Tribune before joining the staff of his hometown paper, The Record, where he won a National Newspaper Award for short feature writing in 2002. At The Globe and Mail, his interview subjects ranged from Don Cherry to the Dalai Lama, but he mostly enjoyed telling the untold stories of unknown Canadians. He lives in Waterloo with his wife and two sons.
