"The main home is only 21,000 square feet. You can build up to 70,000. You could build a Gates home on there, really."
Real estate agent Charles Bilash comments on the modesty of a West Vancouver property he's selling for nearly $40 million, the most expensive home on the market in Canada. (from a July 22 news story).
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"Had he been seconds earlier, it might have hit right where he was sitting."
North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong said a truck driver who was hit by a train at a crossing near the Low Level Road was lucky to be alive, saved by his seatbelt and some quick evasive action (from a July 20 news story).
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"Nothing upsets you more than when you come into work and you have to take care of someone else's dirty mattress, and it's the middle of winter and pouring rain."
Neil Callaghan, the owner of Second Wave surf, snow and skate shop in Lower Lonsdale, explains why he turned the unused space at the back of his store where he often found people dumping garbage into a community garden that grows food for the Harvest Project (from a July 22 news story).
