2023 NWT Election
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Shane Thompson
Candidate in the Nahendeh All Ridings race.
Shane can be reached at dlori.richards@gmail.com, or by calling 867-873-1633.
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Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres
March 7, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...the 19 where bricks and mortar College facilities exist. Later in the afternoon sitting, tears flowed in what was an emotional time for Speaker Shane Thompson and Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. Thompson was moved as Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse eulogized Ian Legaree, a dedicated public servant, tireless...
NWT’s chief electoral officer to be reappointed
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...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 motion that has the...
MLA’s social media post doesn’t affect finance minister’s work, N.W.T. Speaker rules
March 4, 2025
CBC North - ...impede the finance minister's ability to do her job — adding, members need to focus more on the work of the assembly and less on arguing. Speaker Shane Thompson made the ruling Monday on a point of privilege raised by Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek, who argued that comments made on social media by MLA...
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - Shane Thompson admonishes NWT Assembly after two MLA complaints in one week over conduct of their peers Open and respectful communication between all Members is the most essential feature of consensus government. While it is impossible to reach unanimous agreement on all issues, the opportunity for all Members...
‘I expect more of you,’ speaker says of NWT MLAs
March 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...of the House Shane Thompson on Monday urged the territory’s politicians to do better as he addressed a recent complaint from one MLA about another. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek told the speaker last week that she felt a Facebook post by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart had put “a chill on all...
Cell service dead zones, cash for communities and another upset MLA round out the week
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...to residents, meaning no immediate changes to water rates will be required at this time. And on Friday, another MLA filed a complaint with Speaker Shane Thompson for a perceived slight from one of their peers. Following concerns raised Thursday by Minister Wawzonek about Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, on...
Norman Wells is ‘a community living in fear,’ says Sahtu MLA
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...like something that was written on Facebook and is now rising a point of privilege … that is not the correct way to use privilege.” Speaker Shane Thompson will rule on the matter in coming...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...my view, puts a chill on all relationships as elected officials and on our ability to communicate one-on-one,” Wawzonek told Speaker of the House Shane Thompson as she rose on a point of privilege – essentially, a complaint about proper procedure and treatment – at the start of Thursday afternoon’s...
How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...vote was 9-8. The vote was held within committee of the whole with Sheryl Yakeleya chairing and therefore not voting, while Speaker of the House Shane Thompson also did not vote. In November 2024, six regular MLAs voted against a bill that implemented the 2025-26 capital budget. The six included those...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Shauna Morgan and Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse sided with cabinet. (Committee chair Sheryl Yakeleya did not vote and nor did Speaker of the House Shane Thompson.) Cabinet appeared not to have received advance notice of the motion. Education minister Caitlin Cleveland, responding to it on the floor of the...
Use of N.W.T. man’s Indigenous name in integrity commissioner complaint an ‘invasion’
February 6, 2025
CBC North - ...to three recent complaints against MLAs. The N.W.T. integrity commissioner dismissed complaints made by Daniel Richards against N.W.T. MLAs Shane Thompson and Caroline Wawzonek. Richards used the name Dëneze Nakehk'o to make the complaints. Nakehk'o, well-known in the territory for his work in media...
Integrity commissioner dismisses two MLA complaints
January 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Assembly said on Wednesday. The commissioner, David Phillip Jones KC, was said by the assembly to have dismissed complaints against Nahendeh MLA Shane Thompson and Yellowknife South MLA Caroline Wawzonek. Speaker of the House Thompson was alleged to have disclosed “identifying information about the...
Jean Marie River, N.W.T., facing outbreak of respiratory illness, chief says
January 18, 2025
CBC North - ...members usually drive to Fort Simpson, more than 120 kilometres away, to see a nurse. Menacho told CBC she's been in contact with Nehendah MLA Shane Thompson about the outbreak and the need for medical staff to visit. Thompson confirmed to CBC that he spoke with Menacho about the illness in the...
Appeals court finds N.W.T.’s tag and quota system not the only way to manage caribou in Sahtu
January 9, 2025
CBC North - ...harvest] is the only tool that can be used to manage harvesting - N.W.T. Court of Appeal decision Former environment and natural resources minister Shane Thompson rejected the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board's decision to allow this conservation plan in 2021, partially because it wouldn't incorporate the total...
Colville Lake Dene pleased with caribou appeal verdict
January 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...herd in 2019, with the aim of replacing the territorial government’s tag and quota system or total allowable harvest. Former environment minister Shane Thompson rejected that plan, arguing the total allowable harvest was the only form of wildlife management permitted under the Sahtu Dene and Métis...