"I didn't give much thought, quite frankly, to how it was going to fit in with the neighbourhood."
Coun. Alan Nixon admits he rebuilt his Pemberton Heights home to the maximum square footage allowed in 1994. He wishes now he had considered his neighbours (from Part 2 of Our Changing Landscapes, May 13).
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"Are military jets a priority? . . . Or is clean drinking water and management of our sewage more important?"
City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto hopes the B.C. mayors' caucus will change the relationship between three levels of government (from a May 16 news story).
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"We get a sound bite that (an offender) is sentenced to less time because he is aboriginal. The context is completely removed."
Andrew Van Eden, justice and special projects officer for the TsleilWaututh Nation, says there is not enough education of the public as to why the Supreme Court has ruled that judges must take the history of aboriginal people into account in their sentences (from a May 18 news story)
