“Council passed the fleet emissions reduction strategy in 2004. The short-term strategy was to look at a 10 per cent ethanol mix (for gasoline-powered vehicles). We made the switch in 2002.”
Ron Gillespie
“The economy has become such a complex horror that there will be no simple solutions and anyone who tells you they know how to fix it is selling you snake oil. Any solution is sure to involve a broad spectrum of measures and will probably involve making things more difficult in the short-term in order to create long-term stability.”
E.R. Rock
“Our projected results for the current quarter reflect short-term competitive inventory pressures, significant price reductions throughout the market and softened consumer demand over the past two months. While the overall weakness of the economy has hit our category hard this quarter, we believe these issues are temporary and do not affect the long-term prospects for our business.”
Donna Dubinsky
“If we have a 25-per-cent reduction in the number of rooms that we run, then the wait lists grow.”
Michael Murphy
“Conditions-based reduction of coalition forces is a critical element of our strategy,”
George Casey
“We've seen a reduction in deaths from 450 in the 1960s to about 30 per year now, but that's still too many.”
Nychelle Fleming
“Inflation for August was 0.1 per cent a welcome reduction from the previous months. While increases in bus fares and oil-related increases are likely to have a negative impact in September, assuming we have no adverse weather events, food prices are likely to fall as supply increases. The trend, therefore, should be for the inflation rate to return to lower levels.This should have a positive effect on inflation expectations.”
Colin Steele