2023 NWT Election
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Shauna Morgan
Candidate in the Yellowknife North Yellowknife race.
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Facing skeptical MLAs, college defends community centre closures
March 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...MLAs – almost all of whom attended the briefing – suggested they had reservations about closing CLCs and moving online. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan said the college had “characterized it as the CLCs were simply about upgrading.” She said her understanding was the centres had been “about...
Future of award-winning Literacy Outreach Centre unclear
March 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Centre, which won an award from Canada’s premiers in 2023, is in danger of closure. In the legislature on Wednesday, Yellowknife North’s Shauna Morgan said Aurora College was pulling out of its partnership with Inclusion NWT, the charity with which the college jointly runs the centre. The centre,...
‘No new sources’ to replenish Arctic Energy Alliance funds
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...project. … It’s something that I think is an important area. I think it’s important to residents.” Earlier that day, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan had questioned Wawzonek on what she said was a view that energy initiatives are “a luxury we can’t afford.” “Wasting energy is a luxury we...
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ... And on Friday, another MLA filed a complaint with Speaker Shane Thompson for a 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. ...
Cell service dead zones, cash for communities and another upset MLA round out the week
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...their peers. Following concerns raised Thursday by Minister Wawzonek about Range 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...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...in line, the entire process is little more than accountability theatre while backroom deals are being made.” Two regular MLAs, Julian Morse and Shauna Morgan, had voted with cabinet to defeat Wednesday’s motion. Testart’s post that evening received three shares and a handful of comments. In the...
How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...been three instances where the vote did not go in favour of Hawkins, Edjericon and Testart. The latest came on Wednesday, when Julian Morse and Shauna Morgan voted with cabinet to oppose a motion that would have removed $5.25 million from the Department of Education, Culture and Employment’s budget. ...
Budget must improve lives in small communities, says Yakeleya
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the film industry, tourism and the traditional economy. Keep the paddle in the water In the legislature on Tuesday, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan also described “a status quo budget.” Using an analogy about whitewater paddling, Morgan said rather than grabbing the sides of the boat when...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Denny Rodgers and George Nerysoo also voted in favour. Motion ‘would have negative impact’ The motion was defeated when Yellowknife North’s 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.) ...
In detail: What’s in this new ‘independent caucus’ proposal?
February 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the future, however, it said the caucus could seek “consequential changes” such as rule changes, board of management funding and House seating. Shauna Morgan, the MLA for Yellowknife North, has compared the proposal to party politics. Testart has previously tried to introduce political parties at the...
3 MLAs pitch idea of voting bloc as way to be taken more seriously by N.W.T. cabinet
February 13, 2025
CBC North - ...the bloc, if it takes an opposing stance from an MLA's constituents on a particular issue. That same sentiment was echoed by Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, who said that for one MLA to set aside issues that their residents care about in order to vote with the bloc doesn't sit well with her. "My...
N.W.T. minister defends government’s decision not to disclose costs related to former hospital building
February 13, 2025
CBC North - ...a rent-paying tenant in the old hospital which it still owns — now turned into the Łıwegǫ̀atì health-care building. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan says the government's refusal to report publicly on the sub-lease of the Łıwegǫ̀atì building only adds to the scandal of the project. Reporting...
Testart, other MLAs to propose ‘elements of party politics’
February 12, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...platforms with no affiliation, then they choose a cabinet and premier from within their number. In a post to Facebook, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan said Testart had proposed forming an “independent members’ caucus” that she said would, if created, “agree to form a voting bloc in the...
‘Why is our Indigenous population subject to these deplorable conditions?’
February 12, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...to be removed by the federal government. And with the impending closure of Aurora College’s Community Learning Centres, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan noted the good work the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning is doing. “Yesterday, I was talking about how adult education should not be...
Shauna Morgan questions NWT’s plan for civic addresses
February 12, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...live in unincorporated areas, such as along the Ingraham Trail outside Yellowknife. In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan – who represents the trail’s residents – asked what the territory’s plan is for the hundreds of residents who live in unincorporated areas. ...