2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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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...
N.W.T.’s 2024 operating budget gets mixed reviews from MLAs, advocates
May 25, 2024
CBC North - ...to have a very clear vision of why, and what we're trying to accomplish — and I'm not satisfied that we've done that." Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon also said he would have wanted to see more money allocated to housing initatives. "What they announced today is just a drop in the bucket. They're...
‘I’m alarmed’: N.W.T. MLAs question minister on emergency plan updates
April 24, 2024
CBC North - ...organization] level ... that they're responsible for the emergency at hand," he said. Fort Resolution without fire plan Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon noted that Fort Resolution has been under third-party management for about a year. He said he's been asking for a fire plan from the territorial...
MLAs wonder who’ll benefit if NWT makes carbon tax changes
April 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...NWT’s present situation, even as they argued against each other in back-to-back appearances before five regular MLAs (Hawkins, McNeely, Rodgers, Richard Edjericon and committee chair Julian Morse). “We’re still trapped in that first-stage discussion, which is: should we even have it in the first place,”...
Firefighter numbers returning to normal in Fort Resolution, N.W.T.
March 7, 2024
CBC North - ...to normal after low numbers prompted a mention in the legislature last month and one resident lost his home in a fire. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon informed fellow MLAs during the Feb. 8 session of the legislature that the community had no firefighters. Edjericon asked Municipal and Community...
NWT’s MLAs pass Israel-Hamas ceasefire motion
February 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...them.” Simpson said cabinet would abstain from voting on the motion, but would provide a well-researched response within 120 days. Regular MLAs Richard Edjericon, Sheryl Yakeleya and Jane Weyallon Armstrong also abstained from voting. Nobody opposed the...
Shane Thompson opts for the no-nonsense approach
February 25, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...which was littered with enough amendments to confuse anyone – after Jane Weyallon Armstrong had uttered two and a half sentences. Later, after Richard Edjericon strayed into a political minefield by referring to cabinet members as “you,” Thompson responded: “Colleagues, I need to reiterate, speak to...
N.W.T. MLAs vote for inquiry into 2023 wildfire response, but premier makes no promises
February 22, 2024
CBC North - ...about the summer's evacuations. "People want to be heard, they want to know what happened. We cannot forget, we cannot repeat," she said. Richard Edjericon, MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, similarly spoke to the importance of including Indigenous governments. He said there was no communication and that it's...