2023 NWT Election
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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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Yellowknife developer said Bellanca was going to be affordable housing. Here’s why it won’t be
November 28, 2024
CBC North - ...housing and we weren't able to have a meeting with the previous MLA," Suri said during the meeting. CBC News reached out to former housing minister Paulie Chinna, but never received a response. When asked at the meeting if he had been in touch with the current housing minister, Suri said he hadn't because...
How much federally owned housing sits empty in the NWT?
November 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...units simply vanish. So what is happening to the units that officers and their families vacate? This question was posed to then-housing minister Paulie Chinna nearly three years ago. “With all these new units that are being for RCMP, what are we doing with the old units?” Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA Lesa...
New mayors elected in Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Inuvik, N.W.T.
October 22, 2024
CBC North - ...Parrott. Vote turnout was 36 per cent in Inuvik. Two mayors kept their jobs after Monday's election. Incumbent Frank Pope was elected over Paulie Chinna in Norman Wells. Pope received 174 votes to Chinna's 48. Pope has been advocating for months for the territorial and federal governments to step in...
Inuvik, Fort Smith and Fort Simpson elect new mayors
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...incumbent Fred Daniels’ 301. In Fort Simpson, village councillor Wright won 239 votes to incumbent Whelly’s 142. Pope defeated former Sahtu MLA Paulie Chinna in Norman Wells by 174 votes to Chinna’s 48. Alongside current Sahtu MLA Danny McNeely, Pope had been a central figure in a weeks-long campaign...
Dana Fergusson and Les Wright win mayoral elections
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Fred Daniels’ 301. In Fort Simpson, village councillor Wright won 239 votes to incumbent Sean Whelly’s 142. Pope defeated former Sahtu MLA Paulie Chinna in Norman Wells by 174 votes to Chinna’s 48. Alongside current Sahtu MLA Danny McNeely, Pope had been a central figure in a weeks-long campaign...
Sahtu Secretariat annual meeting kicks off in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.
September 24, 2024
CBC North - ...an election for chairperson. This three-year position oversees the SSI board, but doesn't have voting rights. McNeely says he plans to run again. Paulie Chinna, former Sahtu MLA, says she also plans to run for SSI chairperson. The annual general meeting was originally planned for early August, but was...
Is the NWT’s emergency chain of command working?
May 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... Prior to last year’s fires, the NWT government was criticized for not intervening sooner when the Dehcho region experienced flooding in 2021. Paulie Chinna, then the communities minister, said the territory did not act sooner as communities initially said they did not need support. After travelling to...
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...