"If people start to question if it's safe to donate at the door, that can have an impact on charities - not just ours."
Stephen Forgacs, spokesman for the B.C. Children's Hospital Foundation, reacts to reports that phoney canvassers have been defrauding people on the North Shore using a wireless debit device (from a Jan. 1 news story).
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"It's like taking away a disabled person's wheelchair and saying 'Sorry, you can't have a wheelchair anymore. How are you going to survive without it?'"
Ryan Ollis of North Vancouver condemns the CRTC decision to end an 18-month trial of video relay telephone service for the deaf. The move will force Ollis and others back into using the cumbersome teletypewriter relay system (from a Jan. 4 news story).
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"If I'm successful, maybe we can do this year-round. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I can dream."
Mark Sager, former mayor of West Vancouver, is raising money to buy advertising space on the district's controversial new bus shelters and using it to display local artists (from a Jan. 4 news story).
