Willard Hagen has resigned as the deputy minister of Lands for the Northwest Territories. Hagen, originally from Inuvik, had been the Lands department’s top bureaucrat since he was appointed to the position in May 2016. It comes after Hagen directed a Facebook comment at Kevin O’Reilly, the incumbent MLA for…
Indigenous voters in Yellowknife will have a chance to hear what candidates for MLA in the city have to say about issues affecting them at the upcoming Dene Nahjo Election Forum. According to organizer Dëneze Nakehk’o this important forum will be will be an Indigenous led political discussion highlighting land,…
Few people embody the tension and different possibilities for the territory’s future like the two MLA candidates running in the riding of Frame Lake. Incumbent Kevin O’Reilly has spent his time as an MLA skeptical of multi-million dollar infrastructure projects geared towards attracting the extractive industry. His counterpart Dave Ramsay…
The constituency of Great Slave is one of six ridings that has only two candidates this territorial election, and it’s expected to be a close race between retired videographer, now cafe owner Patrick Scott, and consulting engineer Katrina Nokleby. This riding is mostly residential, and covers most of downtown Yellowknife,…
Three NWT MLA’s will be acclaimed in the October 1st territorial election. After nominations closed on Friday afternoon it was revealed Speaker and Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty will be acclaimed for a second consecutive term. Sonny Blake is also unopposed in the Mackenzie Delta, and RJ Simpson in Hay River…
New Democrats from the Northwest Territories finally have a candidate for the upcoming federal election. According to a news release from the NWT Federal NDP Electoral District Association, Inuvik resident Mary Beckett will be their candidate. The NDP is the last of the main federal parties to announce their candidate…
Edjericon is back on the ticket. Richard Edjericon, a former chief of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, and former chair of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board is joining the race for MLA in the riding of Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh. In 2015 he was defeated by incumbent Tom Beaulieu. Beaulieu…
The federal government is investing in its “gateway to the North” says Minister of National Defence Harjit S. Sajjan. Sajjan was in Yellowknife on Wednesday to announce $150 million in funding over five years to extend the runway at Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport by more than 900 meters. The money…
The Government of the Northwest Territories is facing a 20 million dollar representative action lawsuit over it’s number of privacy breaches. Steven Cooper, a former resident of the NWT and lawyer based in Edmonton is one of the litigators representing residents whose personal health records have been breached. Cooper says…
The former Speaker of the NWT Legislative Assembly has announced that he is running to become the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding on Nunakput. Jackie Jacobson was the MLA for the riding from 2007 to 2015 and was the Speaker for his second term. He says his…