"Let's be realists about this. I just don't get people from the City of Vancouver banging on my door, saying: 'I want to learn about the history of North Vancouver.'"
Coun. Craig Keating, questioning the viability of a new North Vancouver museum proposed for the foot of Lonsdale Avenue (from a July 11 news story).
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"It was like we were transported back to the Land of the Lost or something."
CBC Radio host Grant Lawrence describing the feeling of finding a rare eight-foot-long white sturgeon floating outside his parents' Dunderave home (from a July 13 news story)
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"I don't hear anybody screaming about banning swimming or preventing people from going in the water. There's not been a single longboarder dead this year."
Les Robertson, Rayne Longboards marketing manager, arguing that longboarding is statistically less dangerous than swimming (from a July 13 News story).