2023 NWT Election
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Richard Edjericon
Candidate in the Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh race.
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First Nation urges respectful return of residential school children
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...he was reviewing the First Nation’s concerns and wanted to directly respond to Chief Balsillie before commenting publicly. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon, whose district includes Fort Resolution, raised the issue in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. Edjericon shared the story of a young girl named...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...MLA Kate Reid supported the motion, saying she did so in solidarity with the “frustration” of smaller NWT communities’ MLAs and constituents. Richard Edjericon, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Denny Rodgers and George Nerysoo also voted in favour. Motion ‘would have negative impact’ The motion was defeated...
Ancestral remains at Fort Resolution residential school site can’t be moved
February 26, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...was to have the young girl’s remains exhumed, to be re-interred beside her mother gravesite at Fort Smith. However, Tu Nedhé – Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon told the NWT Assembly on Tuesday the identified grave at the former school site is classified as an archeological artifact, which can’t be...
What do former NWT MLAs think of an independent members’ caucus?
February 21, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...an independent members’ caucus, largely depending on how they see consensus government. Three current MLAs – Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon – pitched their plan at a press conference last week to form an independent caucus that could vote as a bloc, which they said would “save...
N.W.T. premier responds to MLAs’ proposed voting bloc by emphasizing co-operation
February 14, 2025
CBC North - ...idea of forming a committee of regular members who vote together on issues in the territory's legislature. He was backed by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, and said that other members would talk about it with their constituents during the break. Testart...
Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to
February 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...NWT Legislative Assembly Building, the former candidate for premier was joined by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon. Testart offered some examples of the need for a more co-operative version of consensus government, while shooting down any discussion about...
Collaboration is ‘foundation of consensus,’ premier says
February 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...foundation of consensus government is collaboration.” At a Thursday afternoon press conference, regular MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon – who have been critical of cabinet – unveiled their pitch to form an independent members’ committee or caucus that may vote as a bloc. ...
In detail: What’s in this new ‘independent caucus’ proposal?
February 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...will “save consensus government” in the NWT. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon announced the proposal at a press conference in the NWT legislature building on Thursday. All three highlighted concerns with the 20th Legislative...
3 MLAs pitch idea of voting bloc as way to be taken more seriously by N.W.T. cabinet
February 13, 2025
CBC North - ...stands for positive change and will hold officials both elected and unelected to account," said Testart, who was joined by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. "Small wins aren't good enough anymore, we need change, systemic change, and that's not happening in the...
‘Monumental accomplishment for Indigenous peoples; the GNWT honoured to be part of it.”
February 13, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...in Behchokǫ̀ in November, one of the largest Indigenous-led land conservation initiatives in the world. Also on Wednesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon asked about the progress of implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “In 2023, the 19th Assembly passed...
‘Why is our Indigenous population subject to these deplorable conditions?’
February 12, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...she admitted the problem still persists, although efforts are now made to use other hotels if Keskorie is full. Meanwhile, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon brought up the 55-year-old crash at Łutsël K’é of a Wardair Freighter a few metres from the shoreline. Records show that on final approach to...
Shauna Morgan questions NWT’s plan for civic addresses
February 12, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...her Ingraham Trail constituents and work to address the issue. Plane crash cleanup near Łútsël K’é Also on Tuesday, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon queried who is responsible for the cleanup of a Wardair freighter that crashed in 1970 on Great Slave Lake near Łútsël K’é. Wardair was sold...
What caused January’s power outage in Fort Resolution?
February 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...why the NWT Power Corporation decided to replace a Fort Resolution power generator in the winter. In the Legislative Assembly on Monday, Richard Edjericon said the community’s residents had been “very concerned about their homes freezing up in -28C weather and causing significant damage” during a...
Community Learning Centre closures decried by Regular MLAs
February 9, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...that are actively harming communities, including homes being used for drug trafficking. On Friday during Oral Questions, Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon asked why there is only one source for caskets in the NWT, unless one is handmade. “Recently, my community members have come to me to voice their...
Some NWT MLAs say budget doesn’t do enough to advance priorities
February 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...is not a government that is trying to squeeze the most out of every possible dollar that we have,” he said. ‘Small communities do matter’ Richard Edjericon, the MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, said he was “disappointed” items on his wish list for his district did not make it into the operating budget....