"It costs all taxpayers to not have a properly funded system. It's penny wise and pound foolish."
Sharon Matthews, president of the B.C. branch of the Canadian Bar Association, says the underfunding of Legal Aid is costing the province money by clogging up courts with people who don't have the knowhow to deal with their cases (from an Oct. 23 news story).
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"A far-too-cozy relationship has developed between the city manager and the mayor. The performance review and goalsetting for the city manager is the mayor's job."
Coun. Rod Clark of the City of North Vancouver criticizes Mayor Darrell Mussatto for allowing city manager Ken Tollstam to go five years without a performance review (from an Oct. 26 news story).
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"Charles said to me he knew we were going to kill him or we wouldn't have brought him this far. 'He knows he's going to die.'"
Travis Winterlik, Crown witness in the murder trial of Charles Anthony Leslie and North Vancouver's Babak Najafi-Chaghabouri, describes events prior to the death of Ronak Wagad (from an Oct. 28 news story).
