"Instead of increasing the number of MPs, they should cut two-thirds of them and do away with that gold-plated pension and put the money towards infrastructure."
West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith, suggesting a way the federal government could find more money for major projects such as the replacement for the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant (from a July 25 news story).
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"If there's a horrible thing that happens 10,000 miles away, CBC and CTV and Fox News are all telling you about it in great detail within minutes." SFU criminologist Paul Brantingham on why people continue to believe crime rates are on the rise when they have actually been falling for 20 years (from a July 27 news story).
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"Our taxpayers are besieged. People are going to get taxed out of their houses, so where do we start drawing the line?" Rod Clark, City of North Vancouver councillor, explaining his decision to vote against funding a study to relocate Presentation House Gallery to the waterfront (from a July 22 news story).
