2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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YK1 says Jordan’s Principle cuts mean 79 jobs set to be lost
June 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...YK1 stated. The extent to which other school districts in the NWT are affected was not immediately clear. In late May, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon said for weeks, “schools across the North have watched as their applications for Jordan’s Principle funding for the fall have come back denied,...
Jordan’s Principle funding shortfalls fail students with loss of teaching assistants
May 29, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...many schools depend on to support their students — are taking a toll on education assistants in some small communities. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon painted a very cloudy picture of what schools could look like when students return in the fall. “For weeks now, schools across the North have...
Impacts of Jordan’s principle funding cuts already evident in N.W.T. community
May 29, 2025
CBC North - ...changes would impact teaching assistant positions , considering the majority are funded through Jordan's Principle. MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, Richard Edjericon says schools have since realized that the cuts will in fact affect those positions. "Let me give you a concrete example of how devastating these...
Northern ministers to lobby Ottawa over Jordan’s Principle changes
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...off-reserve would not be approved unless required by “substantive equity.” Speaking in the NWT legislature on Wednesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon said for weeks, “schools across the North have watched as their applications for Jordan’s Principle funding for the fall have come back denied,...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...The committee features Rodgers, Reid, McKay, Testart and Frame Lake’s Julian Morse. Monfwi’s Jane Weyallon Armstrong and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh’s Richard Edjericon opposed the motion. “As an Indigenous person, a woman, we finally got our voice. As a result of the colonization, it destroyed our language,...
Firefighters and MLAs draft bill to access cancer treatment and PTSD supports
May 27, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...new legislation geared at protecting first responders. They were joined by Yellowknife City Councillor Garett Cochrane, and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon. The newly proposed legislation is called the First Responder Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act, which will make it easier for first responders...
Testart plans to introduce first responder compensation legislation
May 26, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...want you fighting the wrong fight. We want you to fight the type of fight of the protection of our community and certainly for your families.” Richard Edjericon, the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh who also supports the proposed legislation, added it will help volunteer firefighters in NWT communities. He said he...
First responders shouldn’t have to prove jobs caused illness to WSCC, says MLA
May 26, 2025
CBC North - ... Bittrolff says firefighters often know the people they are helping and these stressors are amplified in small communities. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon says there are volunteer firefighters in communities like Fort Resolution, and he has constituents who are going through some of the challenges...
MLAs turn up volume in NWT Assembly; Speaker’s temper blows
May 25, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...like this,’ sighs a frustrated Shane Thompson in the NWT Assembly A sensitive subject brought back to the NWT Assembly by Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon resulted in some frayed nerves and unparliamentary language at the end of last week. In February, Edjericon made headlines when he revealed the...
‘Colonial mindset’ preventing return of child’s remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
May 23, 2025
CBC North - ...are subject to Archaeological Sites Act reveals the same colonial mindset that led to the creation of the residential school to begin with," Richard Edjericon said, MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh. Richard Edjericon is the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh. (Julie Plourde/Radio-Canada) Chief Louis Balsillie of...
MLAs in emotional exchanges over residential school burial sites
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...legislation appears to term residential school burials “archaeological sites.” Caitlin Cleveland was being questioned by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon about the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation’s assertion that the territorial government is improperly applying the NWT’s Archaeological Sites Act to...
Legislative Assembly expected to address what MLAs say is “healthcare crisis”
May 21, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...Assembly. The N.W.T. Legislative Assembly began its seven day spring sitting today in the city of Yellowknife. On May 8 MLAs Robert Hawkins, Richard Edjericon, and Kieron Testart called on GNWT to “take responsibility and act immediately” to address the crisis. In a joint announcement, MLAs Hawkins,...
Health care, wildfire report in spotlight as N.W.T. MLAs begin 7-day spring sitting
May 21, 2025
CBC North - ...answers to this," he said. "We need to have a real plan, and we just haven't seen that yet." On May 8, Testart, along with MLAs Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon, issued a news release outlining 13 calls to action to address the health-care crisis. That includes phasing out agency nurses by 2026, implementing...
N.W.T. premier supports minister amid criticisms of territory’s health care
May 9, 2025
CBC North - ...of not taking her role seriously and threatened to oust her from the job. In a news release Thursday, MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon shared a list of actions they want to see taken to improve health care, including negotiating licence-sharing with Nunavut and Alberta to speed...
Premier backs Semmler as 3 MLAs float idea of removing her
May 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...leadership council. In a Thursday news release, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh’s Richard Edjericon demanded “immediate action” from the GNWT on a range of measures, many of them recently set out by physicians’ group the NWT Medical...