"Fifteen or 20 years ago you'd need a steel-hulled icebreaker to get across. And now we're going to traverse it in a rowboat."
North Shore News columnist Kevin Vallely discusses how his four-man team is highlighting the ravages of climate change by becoming the first mariners to navigate the Northwest Passage by human power in one season (from a July 7 Sunday Focus story).
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"I'd like to term this as tap-dancing with Mike Duffy, because good old Mike has presented himself to Canada as a profligate spender of taxpayer dollars."
City of North Vancouver Coun. Rod Clark sparks a verbal brouhaha that nearly ended with his ejection from chambers over Coun. Linda Buchanan's plans to attend a conference in California. (from a July 10 news story).
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"Bees don't read signs." Beekeeper Fiona Gold blasts the District of North Vancouver's decision to combat invasive Japanese knotweed with chemically based herbicides (from a July 10 news story).
