"HIGHWAY 1 IS CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC. This includes emergency, essential and construction vehicles. A dam is currently being built and no access will be possible."

"One of the issues previous governments had done is devolved responsibility for diking to municipalities. The intent was to give local control and autonomy, and I support that in principle, but the consequence of that is that local rate payers have been asked to take on an extraordinary burden that historically had been handled by the two other orders of government"

"The fuel conservation measures are working but with another storm on its way, we are extending the order to ensure that we prioritize emergency services for another two weeks. This recovery will take time"

"There’s a complete disconnect here in B.C. Why is B.C. not using this technology?”"

"I wanted to be... a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine!"

"The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America."

"This land is your land, this land is my land From Bonavista to Vancouver Island"

"Even the experts were just completely surprised by it. I think all British Columbians fully understand that now we have to better prepare for events like this. But we couldn’t have even imagined it six months ago."

"And the only really good thing about the province of British Columbia is that it's right next to us, Cuz Alberta, doesn't suck"

"As I was a-walking on down Broughton Street, To me, way, heigh, blow the man down, I went into Speedie's me shipmates to meet, Gi' me some time to blow the man down."

"A story I will tell you of the salty fisherman, Of all the little rivers and inlets of the coast, He seems to like Pender Harbour to bum around the most."

"Bitter days, on the fishing grounds. And we tacked off Hippa, in a dirty lump, And the pigs were bouncing, man, and you could see them jump"

"Downstream ever further from our native nowheres (paradise, wilderness) we ooh and aah harder over these sockeye come three hundred miles upstream"

"Here comes Henry Currie, he's always in a hurry Teaming up the Cariboo road He makes his horses go through the dust and through the snow Teaming up the Cariboo road"

"Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake Thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take"

"in a place called Canada West On Williams Creek they called me green and Johnny come lately But, ah, I came from Canada, I ain't from the old country"

"In Port Hardy one morning I cast off my lines The sea was all smooth and the weather just fine And for Castle Rock I was headed away Where the coho flash silver all over the bay"

"Leaving B.C. A thousand faces without names Unknown souls all look the same A thousand people pass me by In this city of dreams my soul Dies"

"oh yeah these BC people oh yeah they make me feel fine oooo extreme are your seasons carving beauty as they rest"