2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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MLAs pass motion calling on GNWT to create emergencies agency
October 24, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...any major fatalities but going forward, the voices of people in the community need to be heard through a process,” said Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon, adding it was important to restore trust among people. “Why do we make motions in the House, if the other side of the House are going to totally...
Alma Beaulieu and family can now rest in peace
October 21, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...nameplate, along with disintegrated crosses and nameplates of other children. However, in February of this year, Tu Nedhé – Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon raised eyebrows in the NWT Assembly when he said the grave at the former school site is classified as an archeological artifact, which couldn’t be...
Estimated GNWT surplus drops by $154M, territory ‘revising approach’
October 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...territory, and we’re not sat here during budgets fighting over the small amount of revenue that we do have.” Return of ‘Métis Churchill’ Richard Edjericon, the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA, said the unity necessary to fully benefit from federal investment “remains overshadowed by the lack of resolution on...
MLA at centre of Fort Res case takes ambulance issue to legislature
October 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...in Fort Resolution concluded, an MLA at the series’ centre took a key issue from the reporting to the legislature. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon was fined and reprimanded for his campaign to oust Fort Resolution nurse-in-charge Jennifer Patterson from that role. Investigators said that...
What should change after the Jennifer Patterson case?
October 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...how those tensions made news headlines. Part three explored an investigation into Patterson’s conduct that the health authority launched after MLA Richard Edjericon called for her to be fired. Part four set out a labour arbitrator’s indictment of that investigation, which cleared Patterson on all counts. ...
ANALYIS: The unprincipled state of Jordan’s Priniciple
October 13, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...rates for Indigenous students in the NWT are still awful, but have risen by six per cent over the past three years. As Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon noted, the longstanding neglect has already forced families to leave their traditional communities in search of better education opportunities —...
‘Heartbroken’ school staff mull future after Jordan’s Principle cuts
June 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...francophone school board said three of its support assistant positions may be in jeopardy – communities beyond Yellowknife are also hit. MLA Richard Edjericon has described multiple jobs being lost in places like Łútsël K’é and Fort Resolution. In total, the NWT’s Department of Education, Culture...
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...