tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57233292078183715792024-03-05T11:58:41.870-04:00Tim Banks.ca "run, if you can't hide"Tim Banks is the CEO of APM, a Canada wide construction and property development company, with its head office in Charlottetown, PEI. My family has lived on PEI for over eight generations and I was born at the Prince County Hospital in Summerside, PEI. I am hoping someone will soon develop a blood test to authenticate when you actually become an "Islander" as I am still having problems explaining where I'm from?Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.comBlogger593125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-59519921663947740622011-11-08T14:53:00.000-04:002011-11-08T14:53:16.342-04:00Great Idea... but put your own money up!!!!I've listened to Mike McGeoghegan talk about this lobster storage facility for some time and I'm all for new investment... providing the end-users/owners (co-op) take most of the risk and not the taxpayers... What I'm saying here is if this is such a great business idea then like any proposal that would be put forward to a bank then the shareholders should put up "their own equity" of 25% cash Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-29669215682883587332011-11-06T11:37:00.000-04:002011-11-06T11:37:24.543-04:00Speaking of "disaster"... the City really has one!After reading the following story I can't help but think the City of Charlottetown really has a major "disaster" and that's Councillor Mitchell Tweel who can't seem to shut his mouth... here's the City trying to come to terms with what I'm sure is an important issue... so Council decide to have the Chair of the intergovernmental affairs, transit and communications committee, Cecil Villard, act asTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-4198737954253593772011-10-28T16:25:00.001-03:002011-10-28T16:33:30.396-03:00"Hamburger".... HELPI'm the first guy who wants to see it done here but "Holy Cow" that's $2,500,000.00 a year it's costing us Islanders (and I suspect even more) and when you're competing against the big guys you really need a "niche" value added product which was what this plant originally started out to try and achieve but OMG they’re now making "hamburger"... Maple Leaf and many other companies like them Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-74155718756409457902011-10-18T01:14:00.000-03:002011-10-18T01:14:39.431-03:00"attack the man"... really!!!!When you think about it 100 people aren't really a crowd... so I'm thinking this story may be news for a few days which is too bad... the media try to make it a story and unfortunately some of those who really need help think that this "media fix" is really going to help them... it all sounds great to "attack the man" but really....
Yes we need better financial Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-23651781416953678052011-10-07T22:48:00.000-03:002011-10-07T22:48:42.261-03:00Richard Is Fighting Back...Here's what Richard had to say at the Halifax Club lunch yesterday, excerpts from AllNovaScotia.com
He accused management at Homburg Invest of mis-using the creditor protection process to protect their jobs.
“This company had lots of liquidity. It’s an abuse of the system,” said the founder of the troubled property company at a Halifax Club lunch.
“The company is not a bankrupt,” said Homburg.Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-7166186467164680902011-10-07T11:01:00.001-03:002011-10-07T11:15:43.137-03:00Please Look After These Small Contractors... "NOW"This is not a great situation but it shouldn't be another Minigoo Fisheries where everyone gets stuck and they didn't get a cent because there was no recourse on Indian owned land and there was no conscious on the part of the Minigoo directors... so the little contractors got screwed...
In this case there should be a bunch of backstops to protect these hard working sub-contractors...
The Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-28729134812882648392011-10-05T00:23:00.001-03:002011-10-05T16:20:31.679-03:00Steven Myers Should Apologize... "simple as that"It didn't take long for the Tories to find another Jim Bagnall...
P.E.I. premier takes issue with ‘hate’ comment from Conservative victor
Tue, Oct 4, 2011, by Canadian Press CHARLOTTETOWN
Premier Robert Ghiz expressed shock Tuesday over comments made by a newly elected Conservative who said he won because the people in his district “hate” the province’s leader.
Ghiz said he’s afraid commentsTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-82164447398263294892011-09-28T23:52:00.000-03:002011-09-28T23:52:59.886-03:00"please give them a chance"Here comes Olive again grandstanding on "business" something she doesn't know the first thing about... she just wants to "call someone out" at the first sign of a perceived trouble, without the facts... if she could read a balance sheet and the public record it wouldn't take her long to figure out that Homburg REIT, now Canmarc Canada REIT, and owners of Dyne Holdings, the Government’s guarantor,Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-81882039817463389662011-09-28T11:34:00.001-03:002011-09-28T11:38:09.560-03:00Here's What I'm Thinking...Someone told me in the past couple of days that Teresa Wright from The Guardian has been calling Robbie Vessey in District 9 and saying that “The Guardian thinks it’s going to be a close one in district 9” and they want to do a story about it, so he obliged… I presume Ms. Wright must have met with Martie in the barn and sniffed a few too many fumes as I’ve been told she’s hinted around that she’sTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-84700531294833933372011-09-27T01:12:00.000-03:002011-09-27T01:12:31.640-03:00This Is "Fracking" Funny...For some strange reason I got a copy of Martie's latest press release today and I couldn't help feel sorry for her as she's obviously "fracking" losing it if she thinks this silliness has any traction in Covehead or Brackley... Vessey could end up with the largest majority of victory on PEI if she continues the PNP and school closure debate as she "beating a dead horse" and you'd think she'd knowTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-81268352450464501612011-09-17T00:22:00.000-03:002011-09-17T00:22:31.042-03:00"Unite or Divide"... Well Said Premier GhizContrary to popular belief I don't really like kicking someone when they'll already down so I'm not going to say anything about “Olive's desperation” campaign... But I will say that the Premier's approach in sticking with the positive will resonate much better with voters than Olive’s pitting rural Islanders against urban Islanders...
If Olive has achieved anything with her Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-77777679943118379432011-09-10T00:07:00.001-03:002011-09-10T08:00:33.372-03:00Business Falls Over The Cliff... but not news to CBCI got quite a few out of province calls on my cell phone earlier today talking about the "Homburg" turn of events and the impacts it may have on our Charlottetown marketplace... so when I arrived home this evening I thought I'd search The Guardian and our local CBC News web to catch up on this breaking story... "Not A Thing" but I did learn that a Puppy was saved after he Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-80435761414903718192011-09-02T15:36:00.001-03:002011-09-02T15:41:31.472-03:00"Free Kays" makes "Top Ten Most Endangered Places"On September 1st the Heritage Canada Foundation designated the Kays Brothers property on Lower Queen Street in Charlottetown as one of the "Top Ten Most Endangered Places In Canada" and you can see their listing at http://t.co/TQqyFH9
Hers's some background for the record.... at our very first meeting (held at Rory Beck’s office) with the Province to discuss our Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-42611556764107272011-09-01T14:44:00.000-03:002011-09-01T14:44:02.115-03:00Mike Arnold Steps Down From Homburg... This is a very interesting turn of events in the recent saga of the various Homburg enterprises and I'd suggest in the long term that the Company's continued investment in Charlottetown may slide a bit with Mr. Arnold now taking a smaller role in the business... Richard and Mike had a lot of confidence in Charlottetown and PEI and let’s hope it continues under the new regime...
Homburg Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-35789981635362236562011-08-05T12:29:00.003-03:002011-08-17T16:59:20.570-03:00Why Not Save Some Of This Heritage Structure....I don't understand the issue why the Kay's Buildings has to be totally knocked down. We had no problem finding engineers that felt the exterior walls could be saved. Simply put CADC wanted $798,000 for the building and it was going to cost $1,638,268 to save the building and there was a government grant of $1,000,000 to save the structure... that left the base land costTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-42839822229943615182011-08-03T23:29:00.000-03:002011-08-03T23:29:06.010-03:00PEI's On-Line Support Sold $78.16 Million... "Big Bucks"On-Line Support Inc. was founded by Jamie Hill of Charlottetown, PEI... a remarkable deal!!!
August 03, 2011
IST Share Hinduja BPO Arm Acquires Canada-Based On-Line Support For $78M
OLS is a leading contact centre provider, servicing customers across verticals like media, telecom, technology and BFSI.
Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), the BPO arm of the Hinduja Group, has acquired Canada-basedTim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-68862600406460431332011-07-26T22:00:00.000-03:002011-07-26T22:00:14.682-03:00MARTIE MURPHY TO SEEK THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE NOMINATIONJuly 25, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARTIE MURPHY TO SEEK THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVENOMINATION FOR DISTRICT 9, YORK – OYSTER BED
Charlottetown – Martie Murphy, business woman and community- mindedadvocate has announced her intention to seek the Progressive Conservative Partynomination in District 9, York – Oyster Bed.
Martie lives in Stanhope with her husband Danny and their six children. Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-68859739095397466512011-06-08T10:26:00.000-03:002011-06-08T10:26:40.483-03:00Using seniors as pawns...The following is my response to a letter which was published in the Guardian over the weekend... normally I wouldn't respond to this kind of garbage but when Ms. Ward is playing on a group of seniors then I think it's time someone called her out... here's my response and you can see Ms. Ward's original letter below that. There soon will be a public opening for the new building after the Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-71483840081833465312011-06-04T18:29:00.000-03:002011-06-04T18:29:57.359-03:00"no penalty" here...Forbie Kennedy once told me that when he first entered the NHL he took a little run at Gordie Howe and later in the same game he was going along the boards when all of a sudden there was an elbow (Howe's) dragging his face across the boards... after he went down, he looked up and there was Howe big as life offering him a hand-up off the ice... Forbie was a bit dazed but he remembers Howe saying "Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-39852702339118759412011-06-02T10:49:00.000-03:002011-06-02T10:49:26.268-03:00Summerside "Coyotes"... you heard it here first!!!Lots of talk in the hockey world these days... Summerside got "outmanoeuvred" by Serge Sevard Sr. and their hopes for Lewiston playing in the "Palace" (Credit Union Place) are all but foiled for now... but I'm thinking a strategic move for Basil and the "boys" would be continuing to always think big and take a run at getting the Phoenix Coyotes to move to the City of Summerside...&Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-45775852867161214592011-05-31T17:33:00.001-03:002011-05-31T17:40:41.545-03:00Homburg "vigorously contesting"...In the May 30th issue of the news website Allnovascotia.com, which does in-depth coverage on business affairs in Atlantic Canada, there were two thorough articles on the struggles of Richard Homburg’s publicly traded company, Homburg Invest Inc.
According to allnovascotia.com’s David Bentley, the Dutch’s Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) are asking Homburg Invest Inc. to remove founder and Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-46096501706278766642011-05-02T11:41:00.001-03:002011-05-02T11:43:47.207-03:00Here's My Prediction.... for what it's worth!OK... I'm back on PEI in time to vote (cold here) and I'm going to call it a “Harper Majority” but I'm saying that all the ridings on PEI will remain "unchanged"... although the Tories have good candidates in Cardigan and Malpeque both Lawrence and Wayne have done great constituency work and I don't think Islanders will toss them out for "no reason"... Sean Casey has the upper Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-7280854632130492242011-04-18T23:22:00.000-03:002011-04-18T23:22:31.198-03:00THE TAX SYSTEM EXPLAINED IN BEER...THE TAX SYSTEM EXPLAINED IN BEER
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-51243213749555654562011-03-08T11:23:00.001-04:002011-03-08T11:28:08.226-04:00Sorry Guys... "what about the little guy?"I'm having a little difficulty here with this concept... Minigoo originally opens and screws local contractors for millions of dollars and now they "re-open" without offering up something to the small contractors they screwed??? There's something fishy here and I find it hard to believe that they're marching forward without some form of repayment scheme for the people they've caused severe Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723329207818371579.post-20597660708398597712011-03-02T17:35:00.001-04:002011-03-02T17:37:31.290-04:00Now here's a good analysis of the City's own review...Here's what Lilley from Summerside had to say in the Journal's comments form about the City conducting their own investigation... Lilley - City to conduct review of concert file?? Isn't that like one fox asking the other fox, "What happened to the Chickens"?
City to conduct review of concert file
Journal Pioneer
Mike Carson
Published on March 2, 2011
SUMMERSIDE – City council is Tim Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451032703930506125noreply@blogger.com1