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Beginning with the company as a one-third owner in 1964; by 1971, Skalbania attained the position of president and majority owner of McKenzie
Snowball & Skalbania, structural, electrical, and mechanical consulting engineers, with over 100 staff in four locations, later dissolving the company, in
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magazine reported that "most received nothing and now
Skalbania has no further legal obligation to repay the debt," while in 1989, he had "earned millions on prime Vancouver real estate and he says that he plans to close deals totalling at least $ 200 million in April."
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that called for his 125 unsecured creditors to allow him five years to repay $ 30.3 million in debts." On
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