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Who said what this week

“Students have defecated on the floor of bathrooms and rubbed their feces on the wall (and) will threaten any physical violence to any staff or students in the building (and) will bang down doors to get into classrooms even when teachers are barring doors while crying and screaming.” ANONYMOUS LETTER POSTED ONLINE REGARDING TOMKEN ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL IN MISSISSAUGA

“Sometimes I feel like the federal government took Toronto out for dinner and then walked out on the bill.” MAYORAL HOPEFUL BRAD BRADFORD, URGING FEDERAL ACTION ON HOUSING

“Anyone that is adding another level of government is moving in the wrong direction.” BRADFORD’S RIVAL MARK SAUNDERS

“Only a quarter of internationally trained immigrants in our province are working in the professions they studied for. This is an injustice to these workers, and it doesn’t take a math major to figure out the current numbers don’t add up.”

ONTARIO LABOUR MINISTER MONTE MCNAUGHTON, ON LOOSENING REGULATIONS ON FOREIGN ENGINEERS

“I was flabbergasted and realized that nothing I was going to provide to the special rapporteur was going to impact his work … I am disappointed that he lent his incredible goodwill to a flawed exercise.” FORMER FEDERAL CONSERVATIVE LEADER ERIN O’TOOLE, ON HIS MEETING WITH DAVID JOHNSTON

“It’s big, it’s amazing, it’s beautiful, and it’s overwhelming. But you have to remember that it’s Mother Nature, and she has no mercy for humanity.”

ALASKAN EMT KRISTY PETERSON, ON A MAN WHO DROWNED AFTER WALKING ON — AND SINKING IN — THE STATE’S TIDAL MUD FLATS “A lot of getting better was a matter of setting really small goals. At first they’d say, ‘How long can you stand?’ For a while, my record was 45 seconds before I’d collapse. And then they were saying: ‘Oh, look, you’re standing for a minute!”

ACTOR JEFF BRIDGES, ON FIGHTING NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA