"I think that intimidation factor is now out of the league at the house level and I think it will be more dependent on skill - passing, shooting, scoring, skating."
Tim Murphy, West Vancouver Minor Hockey Association president, discussing the decision to ban hitting from recreational hockey leagues (from a Jan. 25 news story).
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"I don't think any one of us would be in this room if we weren't caring people. You are reaching out to them, to give them a little bit of hope when they're calling you in their darkest moment."
Michelle, a 9-1-1 operator, discusses what it takes to field emergency calls (from a Jan. 22 Sunday Focus story).
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"(Ontario) is running a $16billion annual deficit; if it does not pull up its socks it's going to be ranked with Greece. . . . Frankly, we cannot compete with the idiocy of (its) ministry of finance . . . and we won't."
Ralph Sultan, Member of the Legislative Assembly for West Vancouver-Capilano, describes the tax incentives available to production companies making films in Ontario (from a Jan. 27 news story).
