About this site

What this is

DC Election 2026 is an independent, unpaid, volunteer research project. It is not affiliated with the City of Dawson Creek, Elections BC, any candidate, any party or any organization. Nobody was paid to make it and it does not endorse anyone.

The site shows ads served by Google to cover hosting costs. Google chooses the ads; advertisers have no say over what the site says.

The goal is simple: put everything that is on the public record about each candidate in one place, cite where it came from, and leave the judgment to you.

The site started with Dawson Creek. It also covers the Village of Pouce Coupe mayor and council race and the Peace River Regional District electoral area directors, researched the same way in September 2026 from the Village's and the Regional District's own notices, minutes and agendas, local news and candidates' public pages.

How it was compiled

The City of Dawson Creek elections page and the redacted nomination packages for all fifteen candidates.^[1]
All 143 sets of council minutes from September 2022 to August 2026, downloaded from the city's document library and text-searched for movers, seconders, recorded opposed votes, conflict declarations and attendance.
Local and regional news: Energeticcity.ca, CJDC-TV, CBC News, Northern Beat, The Broken Typewriter (Tania Finch's Substack), My Peace Region Now, and Wayback Machine copies of the Dawson Creek Mirror and Alaska Highway News.
Candidates' public campaign pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and their own websites.
Organization websites: the Chamber of Commerce, the Hospital Foundation, the South Peace Oilmen's Association, NCLGA and Northern Lights College.

Caveats

The Dawson Creek Mirror and Alaska Highway News websites are gone. Their archives exist only to about October 2023.
Pages for candidates with little on the public record (Atkinson, Bice, Shields, Slowinski, Tom) are shorter because fewer sources exist, not because they were skipped.
Council minutes record debate as "Council discussed..." and rarely attribute remarks. Voting records come from recorded "OPPOSED" lines, which only appear when a vote is not unanimous. A councillor who is not listed as opposed voted with the majority or was absent.
Pouce Coupe had not posted adopted council minutes after April 14, 2026. Its April to September 2026 record comes from draft minutes printed in later agenda packages, which can still be corrected.
Anything marked Unverified or Likely is a lead, not a finding. Claims from campaign pages are labelled as self-reported.
Vote counts (motions moved, seconded, absences) come from text searches of the minutes and may be off by a few.
The August 24 and September 21, 2026 minutes had not been published when this was compiled.

Facts and questions

Each candidate page ends with a section called "What the record shows." It has two parts. Facts summarizes what the sources support. Questions worth asking lists what the record does not answer. The site does not rate candidates, guess at their motives or predict results.

Promises and delivery

Pages for candidates who have held office include a "Promises and delivery" table. It compares what they said they would do the last time they ran, taken from archived news stories and their own published words, with what the minutes, grant announcements and news show happened during their term. Each row gets one verdict: Delivered, Partly delivered, In progress, Not delivered, Reversed or No record found. "Delivered" needs a source showing it happened and that the candidate had a documented role (moved, seconded, voted for, applied or lobbied). Council and board decisions are collective, so credit is shared. Many 2022 campaign pages were on Facebook and could not be read, so some candidates have no promises on record to check. That is noted on their pages rather than guessed at.

Photos

Candidate photos come from public sources: the City of Dawson Creek, Village of Pouce Coupe and Regional District council and board pages, news photos, candidates' own campaign websites and campaign Facebook pages. Each photo is credited and linked on the candidate's page. Where no public photo could be found, a placeholder is shown. Photos remain the property of their owners and are reproduced here for voter information only. An owner who wants a photo removed or replaced can email don.yaponchik@proton.me.

When the information was gathered

Everything on this site was gathered between September 21 and 23, 2026: the council minutes were read on September 21, the news, campaign pages and nomination packages on September 21 to 23, and the site went live on September 23. That is before the council debate (September 24) and the mayoral debate (September 29). Anything a candidate said or did after September 23 is not here.

This is a snapshot, not a news site. It will not be updated after that unless a correction is needed. It should be enough to know who the candidates are, what they have done, and what they say they will do.

For search engines and AI agents

Every page has a Markdown twin at the same address with .md on the end (for example /dilworth.md). /llms.txt is an index of those files, /llms-full.txt is the whole site in one text file, and /sitemap.xml lists every page. Crawling is allowed in /robots.txt. Please cite this site and the original sources when you quote it, and say that the information dates from September 2026.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or missing, email corrections with a source to don.yaponchik@proton.me. Candidates are welcome to send a photo to the same address. Corrections are the only updates this site will get.

Corrections log

September 26, 2026, Steven Reynolds: Corrected his time in business from 12 years to 25, and added the pilot car business he owned from 1998 to 2003 before focusing on the repair shop. Correction from the candidate.
September 23, 2026, Monica Rogers: Corrected the December 2025 nurse-practitioner presentation: she prepared it as part of her job but did not deliver it, as she was on maternity leave. Correction from the candidate.
September 26, 2026, Barb Slowinski: Added her photo, sent by the candidate.
October 3, 2026, Mike Sudnik: Removed outdated family information at the request of the person concerned.
September 23, 2026, Karen Tom: Added her campaign Facebook page, which we had missed, and her photo from it.
September 23, 2026, Karen Tom: Removed an unverified note that linked her, by surname only, to another person; that person asked to be removed.
September 23, 2026, Raistlin Van Spronsen: Corrected his family ties (John van Spronsen is his grandfather; his father is Tom van Spronsen) and removed a relative who has passed away. Replaced the 2012 championships line with his speed-skating club history, added his Hockey Canada event volunteering and added sustainable water solutions to his platform. Corrections from the candidate.
September 26, 2026, Brianna Carriere: Added her background, reasons for running and areas of focus from a statement she posted in a Facebook comment.
September 24, 2026, James Wall: Added the June 2026 provincial approval of pedestrian-activated beacons at two Highway 2 crossings, now under construction, to his highway-safety promise. Correction from the candidate.
September 25, 2026, James Wall: Corrections from the candidate: added his statements that the 2023 15 percent increase was reduced from a 30 percent proposal, that his lagoon votes opposed directly awarding the work to Urban Systems and SNC-Lavalin rather than the work itself, that his declared conflicts were the Legion and the South Peace Arts Society and not North Winds, that seniors have transportation through Step Up and Ride, that he owns a farm outside the village (legal address Area D, mailing address Pouce Coupe), and that Iron Wolf Athletics runs the village ball team. Removed the question about a North Winds conflict.
September 25, 2026, James Wall: Second set of corrections from the candidate: occupation changed to the oil and gas industry, with his drafting diploma listed as education; added his account of leaving the February 2023 meeting (not allowed to question the North Wind delegation) alongside the minutes' record of a denied motion to extend its time; added his statements that he recused from all Legion items and supported a 0.8 percent increase in 2026 for the Highway 2 crossings. He also said he has never moved a tax increase or supported a financial plan; the profile keeps the 2023 minutes that record his motions on the 15 percent increase, the 2023 financial plan and the 2023 tax rates.
September 25, 2026, James Wall: Third set of corrections from the candidate: added the McNabb Park Improvement Project plan and the "Potential for a Pouce Long Park" rail-easement trail concept he sent, with his statement that neither has a completion timeline because the Village is seeking grant funding and industry partnerships to build them.

Sources cited on this page

City of Dawson Creek, Elections page (voting dates, candidate list, nomination packages). dawsoncreek.ca/our-government/elections/