2023 NWT Election
Vince Mckay
Candidate in the Hay River South Hay River race.
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MLAs pass motion calling on GNWT to create emergencies agency
October 24, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...I hear in the community. That’s why it’s here on the floor today.” Responsibilities ‘already being carried out’ Communities minister Vince McKay said he appreciated Testart’s focus on strengthening emergency management, but defended the present system. McKay said the existing Emergency...
Tuktoyaktuk ‘told to find funding within’ after major flood
October 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...their own limited funds to clean up from a major storm event,” she said. Emergency declaration wouldn’t guarantee cash Communities minister Vince McKay said the GNWT is still assessing the full extent of the damage and has not offered Tuktoyaktuk any disaster assistance, as the territory’s...
Rodgers pushes for funding to send snowshoe team to 2026 AWG
October 21, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...consultant delivered a presentation to a committee of MLAs about the pros and cons of regulating that form of gaming in NWT. Communities minister Vince McKay said discussions about that kind of regulation are ongoing, though a legislative proposal has not yet been finalized. Asked about plans for the...
Would giant information billboards help make NWT highways safer?
October 19, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...updated using Starlink satellite internet to offer updates “almost in real time” to passing drivers who lack their own connectivity. Vince McKay, the NWT’s infrastructure minister, said the territory already does use comparatively small electronic signs in locations like Enterprise and...
MLAs push ministers over NWT’s response to 2023 review
October 18, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...so, she said, having a trusted and independent mechanism in place during emergencies is “critically important.” She asked communities minister Vince McKay about the department’s commitment to develop new regulations governing emergency preparedness. McKay said Maca was committed to developing...
MLA at centre of Fort Res case takes ambulance issue to legislature
October 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ... Asked by Edjericon if Fort Resolution and nearby Łútsël K’é can expect a plan for paramedic service to be rolled out, communities minister Vince McKay said his government would “work with the communities on what’s needed.” He said his department and the Department of Health and Social...
Premier says ‘people have to step up’ to keep NWT SPCA going
October 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...I’ll do is I will have a conversation with the minister of Maca,” he said, referring to Department of Municipal and Community Affairs minister Vince McKay. “I will have a conversation with the department and see what type of work is happening in this area and what types of supports are possible, if...
Some regular MLAs disappointed in GNWT’s 2023 response
October 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...had broken down at the height of the crisis, ministers insist it is the right system to build on – and more appropriate than a year-round agency. Vince McKay, the NWT’s communities minister and a longtime Hay River-based firefighter, said that recommendation had immediately struck him as unworkable. ...
Court order halts bids to build Inuvik’s new airport terminal
September 19, 2025
Cabin Radio - ... GNWT ‘unlawful, unreasonable’ In its application for judicial review, the GTC says the territorial government’s infrastructure minister, Vince McKay, sent a letter to the tribal council dated July 17, 2025. The tribal council said McKay expressed an intent in that letter “to bypass negotiation...
Premier, environment minister reply to Michael McLeod over wildfires
September 4, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...from a video posted online, Michael McLeod, standing on the left, is seen addressing a room that includes Premier RJ Simpson, communities minister Vince McKay and Dehcho MLA Sheryl Yakeleya. “You guys are providing us nothing to prevent fires, Nothing,” McLeod said. He told Simpson the territory...
Ex-MP tells ministers NWT wildfire approach is ’embarrassment’
September 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...consider putting the money back, devolving it back to the federal government so they can look after our safety?” Simpson and communities minister Vince McKay, an experienced firefighter, are seen standing opposite McLeod across the room and listening as he speaks. Dehcho MLA Sheryl Yakeleya was also...
Assembly hears financial costs of First Responder Bill
June 20, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...in the city of Yellowknife and was also livestreamed on the assembly’s website, on YouTube and social media. First responders, the Honourable Vince McKay, Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission, Rick Hunt, President and CEO of the worker safety and compensation...
Indigenous leaders and GNWT reps gather in times marked by “uncertainty”
June 19, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...of the Tłı chǫ Government, Premier R.J. Simpson, Deputy Premier Caroline Wawzonek, Minister Lesa Semmler, Minister Caitlin Cleveland, Minister Vince McKay and Minister Lucy Kuptana. The Northwest Territories Council of Leaders Memorandum of Understanding was signed by leadership in June 2021. The...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...digital age where words can spread quickly and cause significant harm.” Six of the seven cabinet members backed the motion. Hay River South’s Vince McKay, the communities and infrastructure minister, abstained. ‘Trying to sanitize political speech’ On the other side of the House, Inuvik Boot...
Coast guard heads out to determine Mackenzie’s 2025 navigability
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Canadian Coast Guard has gone out today to assess the water levels at the mouth of the Mackenzie River,” communities and infrastructure minister Vince McKay told the legislature on Wednesday afternoon. The coast guard places navigation buoys in the Mackenzie each summer. Last year, that work couldn’t...