2023 NWT Election
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Robert Hawkins
Candidate in the Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife race.
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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...
Premier backs Semmler as 3 MLAs float idea of removing her
May 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...a scrapped nine-person health authority leadership council. In a Thursday news release, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh’s Richard Edjericon demanded “immediate action” from the GNWT on a range of measures, many of them recently set out by...
Yellowknife youth MLAs focus on Frame Lake, Tin Can Hill
May 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...to pursue this important issue and attempt to find a solution.” Range Lake youth MLA Tendesai Mufandaedza stands to deliver a statement. Photo: Robert Hawkins All 19 youth MLAs had the opportunity to present statements to the House before a series of debates began on topics like drugs and education. ...
How the NWT’s youth parliament just voted on drugs
May 2, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...said. Kailee Wentland addresses the legislature on May 1, 2025. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Leanne Karembera speaks during Youth Parliament. Photo: Robert Hawkins Those remarks triggered a debate about whether giving longer sentences to lower-level offenders is worth it to send a larger message. “If we are...
‘You hope there’s enough interest that the Arctic is still a priority’
April 30, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...think the message is very clear. We all stand united as Canadians for Canada – and Canadians were choosing the best.” Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins said he will make every effort to draw Alty’s attention to the Slave Geological Province highway, Taltson hydro expansion, regulatory issues...
More than 100 attend NWT nominee program town hall
April 24, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...became available or someone withdraws their application, a redraw will select candidates from that pool. Earlier this month, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said the territory was being offered an extra 150 slots by Ottawa in exchange for accepting 50 refugees. The two...
Foreign workers in N.W.T. say they can’t wait much longer for answers, after Nominee Program cuts
April 23, 2025
CBC North - ...have any other option now," he said. The town hall at the Northern United Place, held by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, was meant to give the MLAs a better understanding of what people tied to the nominee program are facing, and what they'd like to see from the...
Hawkins and Testart to hold nominee program town hall
April 10, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...have since urged the federal government to rethink its position. From 7-9pm on April 22, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins will hold a meeting about NTNP at Northern United Place. In a press release on Thursday, they asked business owners, community leaders and...
MLA drafts bill that would allow nurses to bargain separately
March 15, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...already being spent. Just two of roughly 95 bills that became law in the 19th Assembly were private member’s bills. In the 20th Assembly, Robert Hawkins, successfully used a private member’s bill last year to convince cabinet to increase student loan limits. ‘The provinces are catching up’ ...
Carney scraps parts of Canada’s carbon tax, GNWT sets out response
March 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the tax to zero. Increasing rebates to 100 percent would have a near-identical effect. In February, Wawzonek – asked by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins about the prospect of the tax being altered or lifted – said staff were monitoring developments. “We have the option to zero out our values if...
Carney scraps parts of Canada’s carbon tax, NWT response not clear
March 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...legislative approval or the recalling of MLAs, who broke for two months on Thursday. In February, Wawzonek – asked by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins about the prospect of the tax being altered or lifted – said staff were monitoring developments. “We have the option to zero out our values if...
N.W.T. budget passes with $41.6M addition to housing
March 14, 2025
CBC North - ...that each region would see the benefits of that investment, but couldn't yet say specifically what each community would receive. Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart opposed the budget, saying it doesn't go far enough to support northerners. (Travis Burke/CBC) Three members opposed the budget:...
Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT
March 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...and together weigh our options for the best path forward,” she stated in a late Thursday night release. Regular MLAs Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart — the newly formed Independent Members Caucus — believe the 20th Assembly is not moving fast enough to meet the moment and...
With added housing cash, NWT’s 2025-26 budget comfortably passes
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...called for changes to funding for public safety, childcare and healthcare, among others. Income assistance to be revisited Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh’s Richard Edjericon, who have together tried to launch an independent members’ caucus with Testart, joined him in...
Motion to halt Indigenous Employment Policy is defeated
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...(behind Indigenous northerners) for territorial government jobs. On Thursday, one MLA who doesn’t back the new policy – Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins – brought forward a motion calling for an “immediate halt” to its rollout. Even if the motion had passed, the legislature does not give...