2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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Listen: Will the GNWT’s new Indigenous Employment Policy work?
December 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...policy being rolled out by the NWT government in April gets it wrong. In a letter this week, seven regular MLAs – Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins, Kieron Testart, Daniel McNeely, George Nerysoo and Sheryl Yakeleya – said the new policy was being introduced despite...
$375M agreement was a deal done differently
November 14, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that can provide a vehicle that will allow Indigenous governments to have the resources they need to move forward with taking care of the land.” Richard Edjericon, the Tu-Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA, said the bill placed the legislature “on the road to looking at a constitutional reform.” Yellowknife Centre MLA...
Police now work with housing officials to oust traffickers, rowdy tenants from public housing units
November 1, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...in public housing so that Local Housing Organizations can address the issues and help keep residents safe. Meanwhile, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon repeated his call for a fix to the spotty cellular service in Ndilǫ. He questioned Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek about if officials can soon...
Could a similar Stanton Renewal Project debacle happen again?
October 30, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...of the damage that they have encountered while driving this portion of the highway.” Also in the Assembly on Wednesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon noted that over 20-per-cent of NWT households struggle with food insecurity, and most of those households are Indigenous families. “When those...
Drug-fuelled violence in Fort McPherson has MLA pleading for help
October 21, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...the end of the day, reports indicate MLAs did side with the NWT Legislative Assembly’s Integrity Commissioner, and fined Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon $2,500 for breaching a provision of the Code of Conduct. Edjericon was also reprimanded for a “continuous campaign harassing” the nursing staff...
NWT legislature reprimands, fines Edjericon $2,500
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...MLAs have followed the integrity commissioner’s recommendation in formally reprimanding Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and fining him $2,500. Commissioner David Phillip Jones had recommended the reprimand and fine after finding Edjericon had broken the code of conduct for MLAs when he orchestrated...
N.W.T. MLAs reprimand colleague, fine him $2,500 for trying to get nurse fired
October 21, 2024
CBC North - ...MLAs have voted to reprimand Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and fine him $2,500 for breaking the MLA code of conduct and trying to get a nurse fired. Monday's vote, moved by Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, passed in the legislature Monday with no discussion. The vote comes after the N.W.T.'s...
Fort Good Hope Construction Centre wins ‘millions of dollars’ from Canada Mortgage and Housing
June 12, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...the 15 finalists will share a pot worth $74.8 million. Some other issues on the minds of MLAs in Members’ Statements and Oral Questions today: Richard Edjericon, MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, is concerned after Suncor in Alberta released a report about runoff water from a oil sands project into the Athabasca...
Can the NWT police its way out of the drug crisis?
June 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... MLAs Danny McNeely, George Nerysoo, Sheryl Yakeleya and Denny Rodgers spoke in favour of increasing RCMP resources. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon introduced a motion calling for a canine unit to be reinstated in Hay River to address drug-related crimes. “We’ve got to figure out a way how...
Shelters are full in Yellowknife, MLA seeks solutions from GNWT
June 11, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...and spirit are crucial to our overall well being. And we must give our communities the tools to take care of all these parts of themselves.” And Richard Edjericon, the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh , asked for a commitment to establish educational bodies that align with regional boundaries that have existing...
The extraordinary scale of the NWT’s shift from hydro to diesel
June 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...pointedly said on Monday that none of the options in front of her feel quick or cheap at a territorial level. Meanwhile, as Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon noted, residents are being asked to bear the increasing cost of business as usual in the absence of other solutions. “We have homeowners paying...
No free ticket home for residents injured while outside NWT, says minister
May 30, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...And the more advance notice of a question a minister has, he or she can then ensure they have a fulsome answer to provide the Assembly. Richard Edjericon, MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, learned the community of Lutsel K’e will have a teacher for its high school next year. The last full-time teacher...
After Fort Resolution fire, MLA wants more emergency supports
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...over the weekend. A territorially appointed administrator has been running Fort Resolution, rather than a mayor and council, since last summer. Richard Edjericon, the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, has been critical of whether the territory is providing adequate support to improve the community’s capacity to...
Water didn’t come easy as Fort Resolution, N.W.T., battled weekend duplex fire
May 27, 2024
CBC North - ...minister described what it took to douse a fire that had destroyed a pair of duplexes in the hamlet — a total of four homes — on Saturday. Richard Edjericon, the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, said intake lines that feed the community's water plant are near the surface of Great Slave Lake because of the...
Health-care staff shortage a ‘crisis,’ MLA proposes task force
May 27, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...and all in obstetrics. She said recruitment and retention have been problematic since the global pandemic. Some other issues to note: · Richard Edjericon, MLA for Tu Nedhe Wiilideh, noted MACA has been responsible for the operation of Fort Resolution government for one year, but has not produced an...