Environment and climate change is one of the most important issues to Canadian voters; the same cannot be said for most of the NWT candidates in the upcoming federal election. Liberal Michael McLeod, Conservative Yanik D’Aigle, and People’s Party candidate Luke Quinlan all skipped out on a debate centred around…
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…
Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen says Canadians “deserve” to know how the aspiring prime ministers will approach the climate emergency. Gagnon-van Leeuwen is an organizer with Our Time Yellowknife, the local chapter of the national group. Our Time is pushing for a Green New Deal, essentially a set of policies to tackle…