Blog Watching: Week ending October 13, 2019

The final few weeks of the federal election campaign have taken the eight candidates to your doorstep, your mailbox and for six of them, to the stage of the Lester Centre on Wednesday evening for an electoral forum.

All of which has helped to make our notes on the federal election scene one of our five most read of items of the week.

To go along with our review of Wednesday's election forum in Prince Rupert which was our most read item of the week, readers also explored our notes on some mysterious political messaging along George Hills Way.

The remainder of the list of five took us to Monday's City Council Session and a fairly expansive review of the disastrous fishing season and the steps that UFAWU-Unifor's Joy Thorkelson is taking to try to get some attention from federal, provincial and municipal politicians.

Mayor Lee Brain took to his Facebook page this week to provide a short overview of his thoughts on the recent end of service for the Alaska Marine Highway and to outline how he believes the issue will move forward from this point.

The last of our five most read items explored MLA Jennifer Rice's observations for constituents on the theme of the ongoing contract talks between the province's teachers and the provincial government, with Ms. Rice echoing many of the NDP government's major talking points though the dispute.

However, the top item of the last seven days takes us once again to the Federal Election campaign, and our recap of Wednesday evening's Election Forum at the Lester Centre..

Candidates hold to talking points for most part in Prince Rupert election forum --   Residents of the North Coast had their only chance to hear the views of six of the eight candidates in the Federal election this week, as the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce hosted an election forum at the Lester Centre (posted  October 10 , 2019)

That article was followed by:

"Everyone is in the hole, everyone is desperate": UFAWU-Unifor's Thorkelson to City Council on fishery issues  -- Prince Rupert City Council's Monday Council session was for the most part turned over to former Councillor and current UFAWU-Unifor President Joy Thorkelson, who outlined the dire straits facing those who work in the industry on the North Coast.  For a look at the remainder of Monday's Council session see our archive page here.  (posted  October 9 , 2019)

Political message making on George Hills Way  -- An election campaign brings out a range of messages and political signs to make the case for candidates, however last week along the city's George Hills Way the political messaging took a very different turn   (posted October 7, 2019)

Mayor suggests other issues beyond local policing at heart of AMHS closure --  When the MV Malaspina sailed off out of the harbour on September 30th, the realization that it marked the end of a long standing link with Alaska began to sink in for the community. Following his two week's of travel to Alaska and then Vancouver, Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain provided a few thoughts on the AMHS issue through is social media page.  (posted October 8 , 2019)

An Apple for the teacher, as MLA Rice brings NDP talking points to Teachers' contract dispute -- North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice who was away from the Prince Rupert office at the time of a teacher's rally in September, outlined some of her themes on the contract negotiations through an Open letter by way of the local newspaper's letters to the editor page.  (posted  October 11, 2019)

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