"I'm not going to drive out to Chilliwack, even though I get my stipend, and put in for expenses, and waste two days sitting around talking about 'If I was a tree, what kind of a tree would I be?'"
West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith on his decision to skip a recent two-day Metro Vancouver board meeting (from a Feb. 3 news story).
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"It was a cop using the Motor Vehicle Act as a club to be a bully."
North Vancouver's Donald Sipes' view of an incident last summer in which a Mountie detained him for jaywalking, and then arrested him when he refused to provide his home address. Sipes, who won a wrongful arrest lawsuit against the West Vancouver police in 2009, claims he was being unfairly targeted (from a Feb. 3 news story).
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"There needs to be some sort of control. . . . We're retired people, and we don't expect these people."
Skyline Drive resident Susan Hope on her reasons for supporting tighter longboarding bylaws in the District of North Vancouver (from a Feb. 1 news story).
