"Jack accomplished what many thought was impossible."
David Schreck, former NDP MLA for North VancouverLonsdale, on late party leader Jack Layton, who succumbed to cancer Aug. 22 (from an Aug. 26 news story).
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"(My) back windows blew out; the mirrors blew out; and I don't know how I'm alive right now. . . . It was just terrifying."
West Vancouver resident Kam Aeinparast describing the moment another driver, apparently overcome with road rage, pinned him against his car on Marine Drive near Taylor Way, shortly after Aeinparast had pulled over to let the other man pass (from an Aug. 24 news story).
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"Without all of you, my girls and I would not have survived this."
Paul Kulisek's wife, Jirina Kuliskova, expressing her gratitude to supporters after her husband was reunited with the family following a three-year ordeal in Mexican prison. Kulisek was arrested in 2008 with a new friend who turned out to be a major player in the Tijuana drug trade. A judge cleared him of all charges earlier this month (from an Aug. 21 news story).
