Paulie Chinna
Candidate in the Sahtu All Ridings race.
Paulie can be reached at Bjharley53@gmail.com, or by calling 780-660-2381.
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More complaints about 19th Assembly politicians dismissed
February 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...from the last assembly have been dismissed by the territory’s integrity commissioner. David Phillip Jones was asked to examine a complaint about Paulie Chinna’s conduct in Inuvik’s airport café and, separately, an allegation that Katrina Nokleby was rude and abusive to someone camping in a vacant lot...
N.W.T. integrity watchdog dismisses 2 complaints against former MLAs
February 6, 2024
CBC North - ...N.W.T.'s integrity commissioner has dismissed two complaints, against former MLAs Katrina Nokleby and Paulie Chinna. In separate decisions on Tuesday, integrity commissioner David Phillip Jones wrote that, since neither Nokleby nor Chinna was re-elected to the Legislative Assembly last fall, there would be...
Review of NWT’s 2021 flood season finds gaps in emergency response
January 24, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...In particular, they highlighted issues with the territory’s disaster assistance policy, which was later revamped during the 2022 flood season. Paulie Chinna, then the community affairs minister, said in May 2021 that the territory did not initially intervene as communities said they did not need support....
After four years away, Danny McNeely is back as Sahtu MLA
November 15, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...McNeely says his first order of business will be to “finish what was started” after defeating incumbent Paulie Chinna to once more become the Sahtu MLA. McNeely held the seat from 2015 to 2019 before narrowly losing to Chinna. On Tuesday, Elections NWT’s unofficial results show he received 372...
Election 2023: Residents vote for change as seven incumbents ousted
November 15, 2023
CKLB 101.9 - ...Dehcho; Katrina Nokleby of Great Slave; Rocky Simpson of Hay River South; Diane Archie of Inuvik Boot Lake; Frederick Blake, Jr. of Mackenzie Delta; Paulie Chinna of Sahtu; and Frieda Martselos of Thebacha. New faces to the Legislative Assembly include former Yellowknife city councillors Julian Morse and...
Unofficial Election Results Provided by Elections NWT
November 15, 2023
My Yellow Knife Now - ...Thompson 326 Les Wright 115 Nunakput: Lucy Kuptana 340 Vince Teddy 159 Range Lake: Aaron Reid 155 Nicole Sok 109 Kieron Testart 326 Sahtu: Paulie Chinna 226 Daniel McNeely 372 Delphine Pierrot 207 Thebacha: Connie Benwell 95 Jay MacDonald 483 Frieda Martselos 416 Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh: Nadine...
Key takeaways from the 2023 N.W.T. election
November 15, 2023
CBC North - ...soon. Still, a number of key figures in the last assembly won't be returning. House speaker Frederick Blake Jr., and previous cabinet ministers Paulie Chinna (Housing) and Diane Archie (Infrastructure) were given the boot. It won't be such a fresh house when the legislature reconvenes in December,...
What happened in the NWT election? Get a quick summary
November 15, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...contention for the role and Shane Thompson, re-elected in Nahendeh, suggested he may do the same. Seven incumbents lost: ministers Diane Archie and Paulie Chinna were beaten by Denny Rodgers and Danny McNeely respectively. Longtime Mackenzie Delta MLA Frederick Blake Jr lost narrowly to George Nerysoo. Fort...
Daniel McNeely elected Sahtu MLA
November 14, 2023
NNSL Media - ...McNeely is the new MLA for Sahtu after capturing 367 votes with 11 of 14 polls reporting. McNeely topped challengers Dolly Pierrot and outgoing MLA Paulie Chinna to win a closely contested race. By the time the 11th poll was reported and McNeely’s win was clear, Pierrot had 200 votes and Chinna had 225. ...
Results start becoming clearer as last numbers roll in
November 14, 2023
NNSL Media - ...a return to the legislative assembly in Tu-Nedhe-Wiilideh and Danny McNeely will return to the assembly as the MLA for Sahtu, defeating incumbent Paulie Chinna and Dolly Pierrot. Sheryl Yakeleya is the MLA-elect in Dehcho with all polls reporting. She beat three candidates, including incumbent Ron...
N.W.T. voters go to polls today in territorial election
November 14, 2023
CBC North - ...will assign their portfolios. Four of the people who served in cabinet before dissolution are running for reelection: R.J. Simpson, Diane Archie, Paulie Chinna, and Shane Thompson. Caroline Wawzonek was acclaimed in her riding, and Julie Green, the former health minister, is not running again. Follow...
Could the N.W.T.’s next emergency be its lack of leadership?
November 11, 2023
CBC North - ...of her portfolio, handing the important file to her newest cabinet minister. Perhaps the best example of this crisis of confidence is the case of Paulie Chinna, who was stripped of her Municipal and Community Affairs portfolio as soon as it became important to pandemic response. Cochrane handed it back...
Isolated and expensive, the N.W.T.’s Sahtu riding feels squeeze of climate change
November 8, 2023
CBC North - ...will be a challenge for the Sahtu's next MLA. Three people are running in the Nov. 14 election: Daniel McNeely, Delphine Pierrot and incumbent Paulie Chinna. "It's going to be a lot of work. I don't envy them," he...
NWT Election 2023: Read our Sahtu interviews
November 6, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...of the Sahtu can choose between Paulie Chinna, Danny McNeely or Delphine Pierrot in the 2023 territorial election. We’ve interviewed all three candidates, giving each person 15 minutes to discuss their platform, the priorities they’d like to focus on if elected, and the qualities that they...
NWT Election 2023: Danny McNeely’s Sahtu interview
November 6, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...in the Sahtu, pushing to complete construction of the Great Bear River bridge, and addressing high living costs. In 2019, McNeely lost his seat to Paulie Chinna by 2022 votes. “This time around – because of the last four years and a lot of situations that have happened since then – I think we’re...