July
1. What did District of North Vancouver Coun. Mike Little oppose putting in Edgemont, in part because: "Seventy is the new 50"?
2. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office asked ministerial staff to divide stakeholders into what two diverse groups?
August
3. The atmospheric harvester is designed to create what out of thin air?
4. How did Wesley Devries make the equivalent of $6,000 while taking a bicycle for a test ride?
5. North Vancouver's Seymour area and North Burnaby will soon have one big thing in common. What is it?
6. Why did two West Vancouver residents end up facing an avalanche of legal action just for working?
September
7. Many City of North Vancouver councillors were unaware of the injustices committed where St. Thomas Aquinas secondary stands today. What school used to be there?
8. An RCMP officer drew his pistol on teenagers carrying something in McCartney Park. It wasn't stolen and it wasn't hurting anyone, but the police seized it anyway. What were the teens carrying?
October
9. How old are the North Shore's oldest sponges?
10. Senator Mike Duffy made $90,000 over several years by writing what three letters?
11. City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto said: "I think it's something that Spider-Man would be very proud of." What was he talking about?
November
12. Thieves were propelled to steal what 120-kilogram prohibition-era object
for a second time this November?
13. Seniors will no longer be able to do what on B.C. Ferries come April 1 from Monday to Thursday?
14. Incoming Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm faced a stampede of controversy when he supported taking approximately 60 acres out of the Agricultural Land Reserve to build what?
15. George Pringle wants to put two things together so badly that he plans to run a slate of candidates in the 2014 municipal elections. What does he want to put together?
16. Why do two North Shore young people not want credit for forging a business that generated $500,000 before either had reached 21?
December
17. Mayor Jack Adelaar accused what corporation of "slowly strangling Bowen Island"?
18. Conservative minister James Moore apologized after defining what activity as falling outside his job description?
19. Athletes can be detained by the police for up to 15 days at the upcoming Sochi Olympics; not for using steroids, and not for cheating at their event, but for what?
20. Despite not buying anything from adjacent Lonsdale Quay, several Chadwick Court drivers got a refund in December. Why?
Answers
1. The Edgemont Senior Living facility.
2. Friends and enemies. 3. Drinkable water. 4. He didn't return the $6,000 bicycle. He was later jailed. 5. An MP.
6. They allegedly defied a stop-work order and caused a landslide.
7. St. Paul's Residential Indian School.
8. Air guns. 9. Glass sponge reefs located deep in the ocean near West Vancouver date back to the Jurassic era.
10. P.E.I. - the senator claimed residence there. 11. A Lonsdale Avenue and 12th Street office building with a web-like façade.
12. A brass propeller that once chopped the waters for a rumrunning boat owned by Al Capone.
13. Ride for free. 14. A rodeo ground. 15. The District and City of North Vancouver. 16. They allegedly produced more than 2,000 pieces of counterfeit ID.
17. B.C. Ferries. 18. Feeding his neighbour's children.
19. Suspicion of being gay. 20. The city refunded fines levied on drivers dropping off SeaBus passengers.
