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"I will challenge Francois Legault on the economy. The economy will be the ballot box question. I challenge him to repeat that labour shortages are good news. I challenge him to see parents whose kids don’t have teachers and won’t have any for the next few weeks. I challenge him to visit entrepreneurs who are being forced to close their businesses because they don’t have enough staff."

"I never regretted once since 2015 entering politics, because it’s about building our collective future"

"I am thinking of the cost of living; we have families who can’t make ends meet and have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food…"

"She’s a young leader, with experience, and she represents a new way of doing politics, in a new generation of politicians... What I love about Dominique is that she is very grounded — she’s able to bring together the daily realities of people and the big picture challenges of the province"

"People are extremely frustrated, not only the anglophones, people in general. People are feeling we need to unite ourselves; we need to stop dividing ourselves, because what’s ahead of us is going to be a tough period in terms of the economy."

"I never shy away from a challenge"

"I knew it was going to be tough... But politics is about doing tough things. And about making tough changes."

"You understand what it means not to have a democracy, not being able to vote. The frustration of people saying we want justice or we want food, we want to have a future"

"A passionate and determined advocate for social justice, Zanana Akande made history in Canada as the first Black woman to serve as a cabinet minister."

"I felt I could do more on the outside, which I continued to do working for long-term care and integrated services for children."

"As an educator and community-builder in Toronto, she has dedicated her career to the well-being of others, particularly those in marginalized communities."

"Change is not always welcomed. The default position for many of the people in government is white male."

"It becomes more possible to elect another Black person, so that it seems not that exceptional."

"Dr. Anderson was a founding member of the PEI chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and her work on celiac disease has been recognized as a significant contribution to both the scientific and educational communities.""

"I supported their platform because I thought it spoke to the issues that were most unfair and needed to be addressed."

"Both of my parents were interested in politics, but it was really my father who encouraged us from a very young age to watch the news and consider why certain decisions were being made."

"Today, for her tireless leadership in public service and her fearless advocacy for equity and diversity, Akande will receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Toronto."

"Doris Margaret Anderson’s expertise in celiac disease and her dedication to education have had a lasting impact on the Island community and beyond, leading to her appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982."

""We have certainly experienced dark, nearly hopeless times," wrote another member of the external resistance, Georges Bernanos, in November 1943, "but there is more than one kind of despair—there are exhilarating despairs that act as a tonic for the soul." Marthe Simard could easily have embraced these words"."

"The fall of Paris to the Allies was imminent, just a matter of hours away."

"I was a Cabinet minister in B.C.’s New Democratic Party government earlier this year when I made an impolitic remark about the quality of the land on which Israel was founded."

"We know that it is 18-to-34-year-olds that have no idea about the Holocaust, they don’t even think that it happened. They don’t even understand that Israel was offered to the Jews who were misplaced, displaced, so they have no connection to how it started. They don’t understand that it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it – you know, there were several hundred thousand people but other than that, it didn’t produce an economy. It couldn’t grow things it didn’t have anything on it, and that it was the folks that were displaced that came and had been living there for generations and together they worked hard ..."

"Tuxedo is where my grandparents raised my father and where Jason and I have raised our children. For us, it's home."

"It goes back to wanting to end one chapter in my life before starting another chapter. I do have some irons in the fire and some exciting things coming in the near future."

"It goes back to wanting to end one chapter in my life before starting another chapter."

"Serving as (legislature member), minister and the first woman premier has been the honour of a lifetime."

"I believe in this party."

"Our policy is clear: We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza. Period."

"Canada, Mexico and the United States have the opportunity to establish a “fully integrated” supply chain and to be “one of the most successful [economic] partnerships in the world."

"We’re identifying problems and we’re fixing them. It takes a little bit of time to address all of the problems, but look, I didn’t create them. I’m just here to solve them. And so, I’m looking forward to continuing to hear feedback from Albertans"

"Her strengths were that she was a conciliator. She listened to people, she took advice and she was someone who operated within a team."

"a long-term approach when it comes to India."

"Every student deserves a quality education in a school that can meet their learning needs and set them on a path to success in the future"

"When you get elected, you have to make some tough decisions. And what we’re doing is we’re being honest with Albertans about the things we need to do"

"Heather’s extensive experience in government and regulatory affairs will help to strengthen the WestJet Group’s relationships with communities across the country as we pursue ambitious growth in service of all Canadians."

"Since the beginning, we said that that would be a terrible idea. It's such a beautiful place and we need to keep what we have,"

"it is premature to presume that Mr. Powell will pivot into a dovish stance, given commodities and housing have seen some cooling. "The Fed's in a really unenviable place, if they tighten too much, they risk exacerbating the recession," she said. "If they don't tighten enough, they're not going to get inflation where they want it and they could risk their credibility.""

"After 25-plus years of researching and investing, I've come to realize that my strengths and passion as an investor are best aligned with more discretionary, less systematic approaches.""

"After three years of working with incredibly talented, dedicated, and caring colleagues during unprecedented times for the global economy and markets, I have decided to explore my next chapter at the end of this year."

"Bridgewater's institutional investors are bracing for a prolonged stagflationary period — an economic condition marked by slowing growth and high inflation — and are looking to protect their portfolios in the event of "sustained bear markets.""

"Bridgewater is "bearish on equities broadly, including the United States, including Europe,""

""They’re building condos in Hudson, but in the village, so they can also appreciate this without taking it away,"

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

"I don’t support feminists who are against men, who do not want families, who don’t care how they look. I’m sorry, but personally, I want it all: a career, a family life, children and I enjoy dressing stylishly."

"There is an important principle that one has to keep in mind. The House gets into a mess, the House gets itself out of that mess."

"I’ve found serenity here. I am above the fray. My mind is free to reflect on matters of concern to the country without having to go to battle."

"Happiness will never be found in the spirit of every man for him self."

"It is never ‘this is what we did,’ it is always ‘this is what there is still left to do."

"Women are not homogenous. We do not all have the same values, desires, hopes, viewpoints."

"I wanted to be that representation. Especially with three young boys, I wanted to show that I could do the job just as well as anyone else."