"It's not real surprising to me that people burn out. It's a tremendous amount of work."
City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto explains the dearth of volunteers that led to the cancellation of this year's Canada Day parade (from an April 3 news story.)
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"As people get wealthy, they get much more protective. They want to keep what's theirs. They have a sense of entitlement. It takes over rational thought."
North Shore chartered accountant Gordon Baldwin discusses tax cheats who may be exposed in a massive leak of financial information (from an April 5 news story.)
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"Do we really consider a hospital heating its buildings or sterilizing its tools to be a major polluter we need to tackle?"
Jordan Bateman, B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, calls on the province to scrap requirements for the public sector to pay carbon offsets (from a March 31 news story).
