WHO SAID IT? TAKE THE WINDSOR-ESSEX YEAR-IN-QUOTES QUIZ
How well have you been following Windsor-Essex news this year? See if you can recall the context of these quotes from some of the most memorable stories of 2017, as compiled by Star reporter Dalson Chen.
1 “We’ve never seen flooding like this. The streets were hit hard. We had water flowing in people’s front doors.”
2 “I’ve taken the feedback, I’ve listened to folks, we’re happy to do that ... I don’t want this festival to be tainted — it’s supposed to be a festival for the community.”
3 “When I have to continually go back to residents and say there is no money for a $3,000 alley light where that person got beat up and raped last week, it’s hard.”
4 “I think Detroit is a legit contender to win over Amazon .... We are gonna win this thing or die trying.”
5 “In my 12 years in Windsor, this is the most severe beating I’ve seen .... I’ve submitted pictures to Windsor police. This is among the most brutal things I’ve seen in my career.”
6 “I was a detective for a long time and we had many successes, but the one that we didn’t solve — Carol Christou — always stays with you. I remember that one like it was yesterday.”
7 “How do ya like that pole?”
8 “I don’t really know what other teams faced throughout the year, but I know what we did and it wasn’t easy .... For us to be here now shows the character we have in the room.”
9 “It’s alarming. It really is at epidemic proportions. If influenza took hold like this has, I think the health unit would put out a public health alert.”
10 “I think we should be appalled. It just should not happen in our country. We should not accept that it’s happening in our community.”
11 “I think of everyone at the college as a family. That hasn’t changed because of five tense weeks.”
12 “There have been many challenges our company has faced over the years in pursuit of this moment. We are now tasked with the duty to construct a privately funded bridge with the hard work of thousands of engineers, steel workers, and construction experts that will be employed to deliver this once-in-alifetime project.”
13 “Any of those CANADIAN women who wanted to protest the President of the USA and got turned around. Good u dumb bitches ... Worry about your own Country CAN-ADA. And your protesting what?”
14 “Windsor wasn’t a place where people would just point and laugh at you. Windsor was a city where, if they didn’t like you, people would come up and just fight you.”
15 “The employees at Windsor Assembly should be really proud of this .... The build quality has been fantastic on this vehicle. We’re bringing this hardware home to them. They should be proud that they are building the best utility vehicle in the country.”
16 “I didn’t really understand the whole point of having a rubber duck to celebrate Canada’s 150, but I guess when you get the opportunity to see a giant rubber duck, you’ve got to jump on it.”