Getting yanked
“Tonight I’m calling on Saskatche-whiners to unclench their frosty sphincters and let Americans on to their oval.”—The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert, accusing Canadians of being “ice-holes” for allegedly not allowing the U.S. speed skating team to practise at the Richmond Olympic Oval

Sayonara, Mr. Mayor
“While the votes may be there, the moral foundations for that are not.”—City of North Vancouver councillor Craig Keating on council’s vote to kick Mayor Darrell Mussatto off two regional boards

You’re not busted
“Everybody that’s been stopped without a fare today has just been educated in the fact they are required to buy a fare.”—Sgt. Tom Seaman on why TransLink police weren’t ticketing fare evaders on the first day payments were required to ride the Canada Line

The yellow defence
“Both Mr. Tsoi and I are yellow.”
—Landlord Zhao Xuan Zhu defending himself against a complaint filed by former tenant Ken Tsoi to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal

Hosers got hosed
“We paid a Rolls-Royce price for a Volkswagen system.”—Stephen Rees, former TransLink planner and B.C. Green Party candidate, on the Canada Line linking Vancouver, Richmond, and YVR airport and its limited capacity for expansion. The system is expected to lose between $14 and $21 million per year until 2025

We don’t know shit
“Our understanding is the RCMP initiated it.”—Surrey city councillor Barinder Rasode on the spreading of manure outside the Front Room drop-in centre in an attempt to deter “vagrants” from sleeping there

Second-fiddle chair
“I don’t know what it is about vice chairs.”—Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan on Metro Vancouver vice chair Richard Walton’s decision to launch an unsuccessful run against chair Lois Jackson in 2009. A previous vice chair, Peter Ladner, ran unsuccessfully for chair against Jackson in 2007