2023 NWT Election
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Shane Thompson
Candidate in the Nahendeh All Ridings race.
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‘Being respectful isn’t an option — it is essential’
October 17, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...NWT Legislative Assembly’s fall sitting began Thursday, and it started with a demand from Speaker Shane Thompson to stop “moving apart” and to “do better.” “Open and respectful communication between all members is a most essential feature of consensus government,” said the Nahendeh MLA,...
What should change after the Jennifer Patterson case?
October 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...healthcare workers said they found his $2,500 fine to be insufficient), that lesson may now be more complicated. More recently, another MLA – Shane Thompson – was exonerated by the same integrity commissioner, David Phillip Jones, over a case that has similarities to this one. Thompson had been trying...
Sam Gargan was a lifelong advocate for Indigenous rights, governance, culture
September 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Gargan dedicated his life to serving the people of the North through elected office and community leadership. Current Speaker of the NWT Assembly, Shane Thompson, released a statement in which he expressed heartfelt condolences to Gargan’s family, friends, and community. “Sam Gargan was more than a...
After nearly 30 years of reporting on the N.W.T., CBC’s Richard Gleeson retires
July 18, 2025
CBC North - ...agree that Richard was known for his direct style and no-nonsense approach, but he was fair and tried to keep the story about the facts," wrote Shane Thompson, Speaker of the house and a former cabinet minister. "Because of his approach to his job, it helped develop my practice as a politician, especially...
NWT and Alberta say they’ve worked out their water differences
July 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...under no obligation to inform the territory about the incidents under their transboundary water agreement. The NWT’s then-environment minister, Shane Thompson, said the province had made a significant error in not informing the territorial government of the issue far sooner. “Because of the severity of...
Information sharing with Alberta has improved since Kearl tailings spills, says N.W.T. minister
July 4, 2025
CBC North - ...Alberta in 2022. It took nine months for Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator to tell First Nations and other governments about it. Shane Thompson, the N.W.T.'s environment minister at the time, had been shocked to learn about the spills from news reports and said it was unacceptable and a...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...they should and shouldn’t say on social media in more detail. The existing code of conduct governs what MLAs can say in the House, where Speaker Shane Thompson is in charge of enforcing it, but does not expressly address social media or how MLAs communicate online. In February, finance minister Caroline...
MLAs turn up volume in NWT Assembly; Speaker’s temper blows
May 25, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...I want this job? Not in moments like this,’ sighs a frustrated Shane Thompson in the NWT Assembly A sensitive subject brought back to the NWT Assembly by Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon resulted in some frayed nerves and unparliamentary language at the end of last week. In February, Edjericon...
‘Colonial mindset’ preventing return of child’s remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
May 23, 2025
CBC North - ...of work that's happened on this file, that's been described in this House today," Wawzonek said. "It's not fair and it's not proper." Speaker Shane Thompson agreed with Wawzonek in his ruling and Edjericon retracted his comments. Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at...
Testart calls on minister to act on Fort Simpson school issues
May 23, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Authority and Dehcho Divisional Education Council. Fort Simpson is part of the Nahendeh electoral district represented by Speaker of the House Shane Thompson, whose role dictates that he cannot raise this kind of contentious issue in the House in a way other MLAs can. Earlier in May, Testart wrote on...
MLAs in emotional exchanges over residential school burial sites
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the bounds” and was mischaracterizing both the minister’s motives and the work that had taken place to find a solution. Speaker of the House Shane Thompson called a recess, after which Edjericon rose to state in part: “It is important that Indigenous people be allowed to call out colonial policies,...
How the NWT’s youth parliament just voted on drugs
May 2, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Parliament. For an afternoon, they acted like real MLAs in the legislature: they made statements and debated motions, all with Speaker of the House Shane Thompson presiding. From left: youth MLAs Leanne Karembera, Emma Wilgosh, Areeba Amir and Jack Penney. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Thursday’s opening...
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...