44 Quotes by David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

You're going to be hard pressed to find an area that has temperatures cooler than normal.

You never really write the obituary on smog days,

It is wild out there -- there's a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We'd sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and it's here, and it's beginning to bite us deep and hard.

It's not the coldest place, but it has a sure cold. And unlike the coldest places, it also has a sure snow cover.

It's our best guess at what we think the character and personality of the winter in Canada will be like. It's not saying whether it's going to be a white Christmas, or whether there's going to be a January thaw, or what voting day will be like weather-wise. It's none of that.

That just shows you that sometimes weather does balance off. Sometimes you get milder winters here and colder winters there.

If you stand back and look at the past 50 years, all these parties have been competing with each other for resources. There have been some agreements but essentially they've been competing in a zero-sum game.

Clearly the deadline is not working as there are still such big issues outstanding and putting pressure on them to meet the timetable is probably causing more division among the Iraqis than consensus.