2023 NWT Election
Shauna Morgan
Candidate in the Yellowknife North Yellowknife race.
Shauna can be reached at Shaunamorganyknorth@gmail.com, or by calling 867-686-8147.
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Breaking down some of the big issues with NWT medical travel
July 8, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...those [decisions], so that we know that they’ll be reimbursed?” What’s the policy for escorts with emergency medevacs? Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan asked what happens in situations where people in life-threatening conditions are medevaced out: are there any circumstances under which escorts can...
Legal aid concerned about children’s lawyer budget cuts
July 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...office, I think we should listen to them,” Great Slave MLA Kate Reid told the legislature the day the budget was passed. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan told Cabin Radio cutting the senior lawyer role removes “the linchpin” holding the Office of the Children’s Lawyer together. She said...
Fix for low-water shipping woes could be ‘lighter than air,’ committee hears
June 28, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...latter use of airships is an idea championed in recent years by academics and think-tanks, but never actually put to commercial use in the arctic. Shauna Morgan is the MLA for Yellowknife Centre. She asked Minister Wawzonek if airships were still on the GNWT’s radar? “I feel obliged to raise an issue...
N.W.T. considers making producers deal with used oil, tires and electrical items
June 25, 2024
CBC North - ...updated last fall to give the territory legal authority to create EPR programs. Regulations will take years, says minister Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan and Great Slave Lake MLA Kate Reid both raised the issue of extended producer responsibility in the Legislative Assembly on June 7. Morgan said EPR...
NWT allocates $1.6M for addiction recovery aftercare pilot
June 14, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...of around five residents each, Wind said. People will be expected to stay in that housing for 30 to 90 days, according to Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, who questioned Semmler about capacity compared to need for a service like this. “The five to six spaces may not address the full need,”...
NWT politicians call for mental health crisis intervention team
June 14, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...a crisis intervention team and encouraged the territory to consider how the program would roll out in small communities. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan agreed there is need for a more appropriate response to people in mental health crisis. She said that should include intervention as well as...
NWT’s 20th Assembly passes its first budget
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...whose jobs are no longer needed to support their transition. She called for more “heartful and vulnerable” discussions. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan said items she felt were left outstanding following negotiations included a healthcare workforce plan and reversing funding reductions to the Arctic...
Advocates say Yellowknife’s shelter system is in crisis
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...shelter system could collapse if swift action isn’t taken to improve capacity, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan says. Speaking in the legislature this week, Morgan said the Salvation Army had recently reported as many as 64 men staying in its emergency shelter, more than twice the...
Fort Good Hope Construction Centre wins ‘millions of dollars’ from Canada Mortgage and Housing
June 12, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...and housing go hand in hand in Rádeyı̨lı̨ Kǫ́ (Fort Good Hope), says MLA Shauna Morgan The proposed Fort Good Hope Construction Centre just received a large financial prize from Canada Mortgage and Housing and “is exactly the type of local economic developments that this territory needs,”...
Can the NWT police its way out of the drug crisis?
June 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...It’s not something that you can just take people and put them in jail and expect the problems are going to go away.” Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan supports giving police effective tools to combat drug trafficking, but said there’s a need for more closely integrated outreach services. Morgan...
Shelters are full in Yellowknife, MLA seeks solutions from GNWT
June 11, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...of bed seekers has increased and 'capacity is being completely overwhelmed,' says Shauna Morgan Emergency shelters in Yellowknife are “completely overwhelmed,” with MLA Shauna Morgan saying she’s afraid the system will collapse without solutions being found soon. Morgan is the MLA for Yellowknife...
MLAs call for assembly to close municipal funding gap
June 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...he said, “and certainly something that I think is worth the GNWT paying its time to, and paying attention to, and putting money towards.” Shauna Morgan, another former city councillor turned Yellowknife North MLA, said the territory’s calculations suggest an average NWT community gets only about...
Renewable diesel could be northern ‘game-changer,’ says N.W.T. MLA
June 10, 2024
CBC North - ...chemically equivalent to conventional diesel. Because of that, it can be used in any type of existing diesel engine, like a truck or a generator. Shauna Morgan, the MLA for Yellowknife North, said that's one of the most exciting features of renewable diesel in a place where so many greenhouse gas emissions...
Sahtu economy ‘faces collapse’ without barge re-supply, says MLA Daniel McNeely
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...there needs to be more facilities in regional centres to relieve the strain placed on Yellowknife. Kate Reid, the MLA for Great Slave, along with Shauna Morgan were speaking about diverting more plastics from the landfill. Under the new Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Act, it could be possible to...
Could renewable diesel power NWT’s green ideals?
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...to recent changes to the NWT’s Income Assistance program. Perhaps the most informative Q&A was between Industry Minister Caitlin Cleveland and Shauna Morgan, MLA for Yellowknife North, on the topic of, renewable diesel fuel. Renewable diesel and biodiesel (or green diesel) are not the same type fuel....