"Mr. Jardine seems like an honest fellow. Perhaps he wandered into this naively - I'll take that at face value. But we're talking big dollars here."
Coun. Rod Clark comments on a request by Kevin Jardine of Chesterfield Holdings for the city to waive hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to save a 27-unit market rental building already under construction at 201 West First St. (from a July 15 news story).
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"It's a bit shocking when you hear about single dads with children living in a car."
Sandra Edelman, chairwoman of the North Shore Homeless Task Force, comments on the increase in homeless youth as well as reports of homeless families and seniors living on the North Shore (from a July 10 news story).
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"We had all of our work done to meet the deadline."
Seaspan chief executive officer Jonathan Whitworth said he's disappointed by a federal government decision to extend the deadline to bid on two longterm shipbuilding contracts worth a combined $35 billion. Only two of four short-listed companies were ready to hand in a bid by the initial July 7 deadline (from a July 13 news story).
