2023 NWT Election
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Robert Hawkins
Candidate in the Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife race.
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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...
Some MLAs still critical of Indigenous Employment Policy
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...or proactively disclose but where accommodations can be available proactively by the department and by hiring,” she said. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins added the new employment policy also drops women as a priority hiring group. Tisha Heron, manager of diversity and inclusion, said the government...
Hawkins ordered to withdraw remarks aimed at Morgan
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Speaker of the House began Tuesday’s NWT legislature session by ordering Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins to withdraw remarks about Yellowknife North’s Shauna Morgan. On February 28, Thompson inadvertently mixed up regular MLA Morgan’s Yellowknife North district with Yellowknife South, the...
NWT’s chief electoral officer to be reappointed
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...up to the next territorial election in 2027. The legislature’s five-person board of management – MLAs Caitlin Cleveland, Caroline Wawzonek, Robert Hawkins, Shane Thompson and Richard Edjericon – said it had determined Dunbar’s “leadership and contributions warranted his reappointment.” A...
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...perceived slight from one of their peers. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan was irked by something said off-microphone by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. Speaker Thompson said his ruling on that will be soon. Thompson told the Assembly the electorate expects the politicians to behave in a way...
Cell service dead zones, cash for communities and another upset MLA round out the week
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Lake MLA Kieron Testart, on Friday morning, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan was irked by something said off-microphone by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. “A few minutes ago in the House, when you mixed up the member for Yellowknife South (Wawzonek) with the member from Yellowknife North, myself,...
Nominee program reopens in NWT after six-month pause
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...are concerned, her department is “at the mercy of the decisions of the federal government.” ‘Lottery’ questioned Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins inquired about efforts the GNWT had taken to generate action from the federal government. Cleveland said correspondence Ottawa occurred through...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...false information and a campaign of intimidation that I’ve witnessed here in this House and in this building.” Testart, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon have recently tried to launch an “independent members’ caucus” that some of their colleagues have...
How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...of a potential voting bloc circulating in the NWT, how could that change the way MLAs vote in the Legislative Assembly? MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon announced their proposal for an independent members’ caucus earlier this month. Testart said he believed if a group of...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...budget, linked to Aurora College’s closure of community learning centres, was defeated in a 9-8 vote on Wednesday. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins moved a motion to delete the funding during discussion of the GNWT’s draft 2025-26 budget. He said the sum represented his understanding of the...
Ancestral remains at Fort Resolution residential school site can’t be moved
February 26, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...are paths for renewable energy and emission reductions, “but we need to step back and look at the big picture.” And Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins pleaded for cabinet to better appreciate the struggles employers face filling jobs in the NWT. This especially considering Ottawa’s decision to...
What do former NWT MLAs think of an independent members’ caucus?
February 21, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...on a proposal for 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...
N.W.T. premier responds to MLAs’ proposed voting bloc by emphasizing co-operation
February 14, 2025
CBC North - ...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 pitched the committee as a way to get things...
Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to
February 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...at a podium in the Great Hall of the 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,...
Collaboration is ‘foundation of consensus,’ premier says
February 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...premier says “the 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...