2023 NWT Election
Jay MacDonald
Candidate in the Thebacha All Ridings race.
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Alma Beaulieu and family can now rest in peace
October 21, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...such as Alma’s grave are considered ancestral remains and protected under the to-be-updated Archeological Sites Act. In July, Justice Minister Jay Macdonald — who represents Fort Smith and was its former deputy mayor — committed to getting Alma home over the summer. In 1944, no one from the...
In financial peril, Burgundy reduces Ekati severance payments
October 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...after receiving Burgundy’s message. Burgundy executives were scheduled to meet with industry minister Caitlin Cleveland and cabinet colleague Jay Macdonald on Thursday, as were representatives from the Diavik mine. While the NWT government stepped in with a bailout for the mines amounting to about $15...
ANALYSIS: Violent crime up 75% in 10 years, despite studies, strong words
September 11, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...by three different premiers and a carousel of justice ministers: David Ramsay; Louis Sebert; Caroline Wawzonek; R.J. Simpson; and currently, Jay Macdonald. There is only one MLA currently in the 20th NWT Assembly from ten years ago, but Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins wasn’t in the 18th or...
Fort Providence reopens to evacuees heading home
September 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ... Former NWT MP Michael McLeod, a Fort Providence resident, has also criticized the territorial response. Premier RJ Simpson and environment minister Jay Macdonald have defended the territory’s actions, particularly its approach to firefighting. Fort Providence’s health centre will offer reduced services...
Dehcho MLA ‘frustrated’ with response to Fort Providence fire
September 10, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...can completely control. Safety must always come first – for the people in our communities and for the crews on the ground and in the air.” Jay Macdonald, the NWT’s environment minister, has also said that “every safe opportunity to put resources in place has been taken” to fight wildfires that...
Premier, environment minister reply to Michael McLeod over wildfires
September 4, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...extinguished, either because of their size, the conditions in which they are burning, or weather and smoke that can interfere with crews’ work. Jay Macdonald is the NWT’s environment minister. In that role, he has oversight of the territory’s wildfire management. Macdonald told Cabin Radio fire crews...
Ex-MP tells ministers NWT wildfire approach is ’embarrassment’
September 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...to again call on McKay to resign while the minister spoke. (McKay has responsibility for territorial support of communities facing disasters. Jay Macdonald is the minister responsible for NWT wildfire management.) Fire SS014, which moved to within a kilometre of Fort Providence and triggered an...
Residents want ‘more decisive’ climate action, GNWT says
August 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...clarity and coordination to tackle climate change. “Northerners want climate action that delivers real results for the communities,” Jay Macdonald, the NWT’s minister of environment and climate change, stated. As a result, the territory said in a Wednesday press release, it is moving toward...
NWT and Alberta say they’ve worked out their water differences
July 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...them. They need to be sharing this information,” Thompson responded. On Friday last week, the current NWT and Alberta environment ministers – Jay Macdonald and Rebecca Schulz respectively – insisted relations are much-improved. “Our relationship with Alberta is strong. We work collaboratively...
Information sharing with Alberta has improved since Kearl tailings spills, says N.W.T. minister
July 4, 2025
CBC North - ...has improved since a pair of oil spills several years ago. "The information sharing from that point forward has been really good," Minister Jay Macdonald told reporters Friday afternoon. The news conference at the Explorer Hotel had been organized at the end of an annual meeting of environment...
When will the NWT’s new public safety legislation kick in?
May 30, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Act – allowing property connected to crime to be frozen or taken away from someone – and a Trespass Act, which the NWT currently lacks. Jay Macdonald, who recently took over from Simpson as justice minister, said the Scan and civil forfeiture pieces of work are “a lot more complex” than the...
Hydro plant back to full power after 18 months of ‘unknown’ faults
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...on Wednesday a joint energy and climate change strategy that will address reliability of power generation in the territory, among other issues. Jay Macdonald and Caroline Wawzonek said a joint strategy will arrive in 2026. “Our power infrastructure is ageing and increasingly vulnerable to the impacts...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...a fairly routine basis in the House, attempts to form a quasi-party among regular MLAs – was barely mentioned. Environment and justice minister Jay Macdonald came closest to addressing the broader atmosphere of the House, which another MLA last week privately described as “pungent.” “How did we get...
Lack of rent control in N.W.T. to be reassessed this year, minister says
May 6, 2025
CBC North - ...we can continue to offer housing programs. Heating costs are included, along with maintenance and repairs," the statement reads. Justice Minister Jay Macdonald wrote in a statement that the territory has also explored implementing some form of rent control in the past, and will soon be revisiting those...
‘It’s going to hit people really hard’: Housing N.W.T. hiking rent by hundreds of dollars for some units
May 1, 2025
CBC North - ...legislative assembly. Some city and territorial officials argued that a cap would hurt the market and therefore fewer new units might be built. Jay Macdonald is the territorial justice minister and would be responsible for any changes made to the N.W.T. Residential Tenancy Act. CBC News requested an...