2023 NWT Election
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Robert Hawkins
Candidate in the Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife race.
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Fire at Yellowknife encampment ‘preventable,’ lawyer says
October 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...of people having agency over their own housing and the need for the GNWT to work with encampment residents on solutions. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins in the legislature this week called on the NWT government to accelerate development of a clear encampment policy. “We need to do something and...
Elders in public housing should not be charged rent, says MLA
October 22, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...recovery house has been constructed in Inuvik and an organizing group and staff is in the process offing determined. Yelowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins cited “encampment fatigue” in Yellowknife after another summer of homeless tent camps popping up in downtown before being moved to a spot beside...
Would giant information billboards help make NWT highways safer?
October 19, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...they hit each other. Sometimes, vehicles – or parts of them – were simply abandoned. In the legislature on Thursday, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins pitched a means of keeping people informed when conditions are changing fast in areas that have little to no cell service. (Most NWT highways are...
MLAs push ministers over NWT’s response to 2023 review
October 18, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Act and we’re going to implement clear roles even in working with the City of Yellowknife, for an example,” he said. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins inquired about how much a dedicated emergency management agency would cost the GNWT. McKay said the department had not specifically alighted on a...
GNWT’s projected surplus drops $154 million in challenging times
October 17, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...to show for it.” “It’s time for a red alert for mining. It’s time for an independent review of mining decline.” Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins said we have an “economy of fear and worry.” He called former premier McLeod “Métis Churchill,” referring to Sir Winston Churchill, the...
Estimated GNWT surplus drops by $154M, territory ‘revising approach’
October 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...government to finalize this crucial process.” Premier Bob McLeod stands in the main chamber of the NWT’s legislature. Pat Kane/Pat Kane Photo Robert Hawkins, the Yellowknife Centre MLA, called for the return of ex-premier McLeod in some form, dubbing him “the Métis Churchill.” “We could bring...
ANALYSIS: Violent crime up 75% in 10 years, despite studies, strong words
September 11, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...R.J. Simpson; and currently, Jay Macdonald. There is only one MLA currently in the 20th NWT Assembly from ten years ago, but Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins wasn’t in the 18th or 19th collection of lawmakers. He returned in the 2023 election. It’s safe to say there hasn’t been much of a straight...
Lawyers take issue with proposed family violence law changes
September 2, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...NWT officials said the proposed inclusion of a care relationship is intended to expand protections for Elders under the act. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins said a constituent had experienced a family member or former partner coming to their work and staring at them. He questioned whether protection from...
Assembly hears financial costs of First Responder Bill
June 20, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...back in May by local firefighters including Christian Bittrolff, local 2890 president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, and MLAs Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart. The Bill aims to make it easier for first responders to access health care services and workers’ compensation for common...
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...