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Joy Thorkelson

Joy submitted the following:

I arrived in Prince Rupert in 1974. I am married and we have two sons. I have spent my working career representing those employed in the fishing industry – my passion is to have a sustainable commercial fishing industry that brings wealth to our community with decent incomes for fishermen and plant workers.

I have served two terms on City Council. My focus as a Councillor is the relief of poverty and solutions to social problems associated with poverty and, of course, increased employment opportunities. I work for environmentally responsible growth and for jobs for local people. Improved social programs and fostering better relationships with our neighbouring First Nations’ communities and involving First Nations residents in civic activities and committees are issues important to me as well.

My City Council Committee activities include serving on the Prince Rupert Library Board and Co-chair of the City’s Green Task Force II. I also volunteer as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Prince Rupert Unemployed Centre Society, an organization that for no charge, assists the financially disadvantaged to access government services.

I am a social and environmental activist; I have a long and proud record of standing up for a clean environment and fair social and economic systems.

I work to bring a fair and thoughtful view to Council matters, to listen well to others, and to find common sense solutions. My record shows that I am well researched and that I bring depth and balance to City Council.

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Anonymous

1. What is your stance on CityWest now that it appears unable to compete effectively with the major Telco’s and is rapidly becoming a major liability to the taxpayers of PR? By this I am referencing industry trends to declining land line usage, the dramatic upswing in cellular usages and new technologies that permit video /cable services to be delivered wirelessly and of course the ability of CityWest to compete in product line up, reliability and quality of service against Rogers, Telus and Bell.
2.Are you satisfied with how CityWest performed against its original business plan?
3. Would you support releasing the original five year plan now that it is a historical document so the citizens of PR could assess how successful this decision to become a regional telecom was?
Alex

Hey,

Ok, so this guys name is Rob Vallee, running for Alderman in Prince Rupert. He is a past owner of DataBoy Computers here. He walked on his partners because he thought they were treating him badly. They were getting pissed at him because of the way he was running the company. He invited two employees to become partners then left the business after taking a draw on his shareholders account over time. That amount exceeded his credit by more than $5000.00.
Items one of his partners says are true-
He was audited a couple years ago and as recently as last year there were Canada Revenue agents looking for him at the store that he bailed out on.
He deducted money from employees for extended medical and when two of the employees went to the dentist they were presented with invoices that the dentist said they had to pay personally as there was no extended coverage for them. It is not known who ended up paying after all.
His partner who now runs DataBoy has had to pay off a number of checks and fees they incurred as a result of checks he bounced to suppliers. He also bounced some payroll checks as well.
He now runs a business out of a converted ambulance rather than a store front.

Problem, the public is unaware of how he runs his show and he is running high enough in the polls to the point that he will probably get in.
Yikes !!