2023 NWT Election
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Robert Hawkins
Candidate in the Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife race.
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MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...by Testart, who said: “We shouldn’t be trying to sanitize political speech and instead embrace it for what it is.” Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins was the fourth opposing vote, stating that rules around MLAs’ online posts would mean “suppressing people from being people.” Reid, closing...
Residents, downtown homeless campers ‘all have to get along,’ says Premier R.J. Simpson
May 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...working with the vulnerable population who’s living in these encampments,” the Premier said in response to questioning by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. “We want to ensure they’re in a place that is safe, that it’s not disrupting other nearby neighbours. “We all have to get along, and we...
Avens criticizes GNWT over $400K related to evacuation expenses
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...made reference to “benefits that were given to employees over and above … and so that’s why they didn’t qualify.” Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, presenting Avens’ case, said “over and above” would be a fair complaint about some expenses if Avens had been given a straightforward set of...
Cleveland to lobby in Ottawa for more nominee program slots
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...work permits, and to talk about settlement services, as well as flexibility within the program here in the territory.” Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins asked on Monday if the territory had considered the federal government’s earlier offer to increase the NWT nominee program’s intake if the...
Encampment, residents and GNWT ‘have to get along’
May 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...that’s part of the process and outcome that I’m looking for,” he said. Residents being ‘held hostage,’ MLA says Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins wants the encampment to move. In emails sent to ministers last week, Hawkins said he had received complaints about the encampment from some...
Morgan’s nurses’ bargaining bill passes second reading
May 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...do that,” said Danny McNeely, the MLA for the Sahtu. “Let’s hear from our residents.” Weyallon Armstrong, Denny Rodgers, Julian Morse and Robert Hawkins also spoke in support of further examining Morgan’s bill. Morgan had said getting the bill through second reading was an important goal of hers...
Firefighters and MLAs draft bill to access cancer treatment and PTSD supports
May 27, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...local firefighters at the city of Yellowknife’s fire hall including Christian Bittrolff, Local 2890 President, MLAs Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart announced new legislation geared at protecting first responders. They were joined by Yellowknife City Councillor Garett Cochrane, and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh...
Testart plans to introduce first responder compensation legislation
May 26, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...he said. “We need you not to fight for coverage. We need you to know coverage will be there if you need it,” said Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, who plans to second the bill. “We don’t want you fighting the wrong fight. We want you to fight the type of fight of the protection of our...
‘Colonial mindset’ preventing return of child’s remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
May 23, 2025
CBC North - ...to help Alma's sister fulfil a promise of returning Alma to Fort Smith to be buried alongside her mother. Edjericon, along with Yellowknife MLA Robert Hawkins, pressed the minister to issue a directive to override the Archaeological Sites Act and instead invoke the Coroners Act to allow the territory's...
MLAs in emotional exchanges over residential school burial sites
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Cleveland told Edjericon. After her short absence from the chamber, she returned to take more questions from Edjericon and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins on the same subject. Hawkins asked if Cleveland would be prepared to direct that the archaeological provisions be set aside. “This is a very...
Confederation, diamonds and cargo up for discussion as Assembly returns
May 22, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...some of that insight that you might not get through the media or through a briefing note,” Simpson said in answering Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins’ question. “And so the type of advice that he gives is quality.” Quipped Hawkins: “(That’s) more than the prime minister gets paid,...
Legislative Assembly expected to address what MLAs say is “healthcare crisis”
May 21, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...at the Legislative 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...
Health care, wildfire report in spotlight as N.W.T. MLAs begin 7-day spring sitting
May 21, 2025
CBC North - ...got to have real 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...
Plan for healthcare change comes with promise to ‘do something’
May 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...shifts at Stanton this weekend so difficult. “Why don’t we show the public we’re focusing in on some urgent things?” Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins asked. Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse said Florizone had set out “nice high-level goals but I was perhaps expecting to see us addressing the...
N.W.T. premier supports minister amid criticisms of territory’s health care
May 9, 2025
CBC North - ...Minister Lesa Semmler 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...