2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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N.W.T. budget passes with $41.6M addition to housing
March 14, 2025
CBC North - ...session. She said that each region would see the benefits of that investment, but couldn't yet say specifically what each community would receive. Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart opposed the budget, saying it doesn't go far enough to support northerners. (Travis Burke/CBC) Three members...
Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT
March 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...listen to all perspectives and together weigh our options for the best path forward,” she stated in a late Thursday night release. Regular MLAs Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart — the newly formed Independent Members Caucus — believe the 20th Assembly is not moving fast enough to meet...
With added housing cash, NWT’s 2025-26 budget comfortably passes
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...safety, childcare and healthcare, among others. Income assistance to be revisited Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh’s Richard Edjericon, who have together tried to launch an independent members’ caucus with Testart, joined him in opposing the budget. Citing the toll of addictions,...
Motion to halt Indigenous Employment Policy is defeated
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...had been “rammed through” against objections from regular MLAs calling for more time to develop a better proposal. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon added: “I came here to work for my people, my region, the communities throughout the Northwest Territories, and it seems like we have no voice....
Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres
March 7, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...communities affected that their voices matter, and that these tragedies will not be ignored.” And also on Thursday, Tu Nedhé – Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon inquired about constructing an ice road to the fly-in community of Łutsel K’e, “in order to take the pressure off the cost of living in the...
Ice road to Łútsël K’é now ‘even more necessary,’ MLA says
March 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...an ice road built between Yellowknife and Łútsël K’é, though cabinet’s response suggests the project is unlikely to happen any time soon. Richard Edjericon raised the issue in the NWT Legislative Assembly on Thursday. He said constructing a winter road could help reduce the cost of living in Łútsël...
MLAs question Aurora College’s plans to close community learning centres, boost online learning
March 6, 2025
CBC North - ...another option away from these individuals, having them go online and try to do another form of education," Nerysoo said. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon echoed those concerns, saying students in smaller communities often graduate two or three grades behind, which is concerning. Edjericon says these...
Low vaccination rates put most vulnerable people at serious risk, says NWT Health Minister
March 5, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Science has given us the tools to fight these diseases. It’s up to us to use them.” Also in the Assembly on Wednesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon, for the second day, argued about the need to replace the half-century old Kaw Tay Whee School, made from four portables, with its separate and...
NWT’s chief electoral officer to be reappointed
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...in 2027. The legislature’s five-person board of management – MLAs Caitlin Cleveland, Caroline Wawzonek, Robert Hawkins, Shane Thompson and Richard Edjericon – said it had determined Dunbar’s “leadership and contributions warranted his reappointment.” A motion that has the effect of confirming...
‘Our children are not artifacts’: N.W.T. First Nation says efforts to find gravesites hampered by permit
February 28, 2025
CBC North - ...exhumed. "She's just worried that she'll die before that happens," he said. Speaking at the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon said the coroner's office had offered to help because it has provisions for the exhumation of human remains. Edjericon said the coroner's office and...
MLAs endorse call for federal aid to Norman Wells
February 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...of Northwest Territories to step in and declare this state of an emergency and seek humanitarian aid for the community.” Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon seconded the motion, sharing his personal experience of evacuating during the 2023 wildfires. He said at the time, communities across the territory...
Norman Wells is ‘a community living in fear,’ says Sahtu MLA
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...declared a state of emergency, doing so from Yellowknife can unlock federal help from Ottawa. The motion, seconded by Tu Nedhé – Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon, passed and now cabinet has 120 days to respond. At the start of proceedings on Thursday, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek raised a point of...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...that I’ve witnessed here in this House and in this building.” Testart, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon have recently tried to launch an “independent members’ caucus” that some of their colleagues have likened to an attempt at introducing...
Bullying on rise beyond our borders thanks to ‘odious’ American president, says MLA
February 27, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...against bigotry, hatred, homophobia, racism and any affronts to our dignity.” Meanwhile in the Assembly on Wednesday, Tu Nedhé – Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon asked Premier R.J. Simpson what the GNWT can do to ensure the federally run Nutrition North food subsidy program will work better for residents who...
How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...voting bloc circulating in the NWT, how could that change the way MLAs vote in the Legislative Assembly? MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon announced their proposal for an independent members’ caucus earlier this month. Testart said he believed if a group of regular MLAs voted...