2023 NWT Election
Vince Mckay
Candidate in the Hay River South Hay River race.
Vince can be reached at MckayforMLA@gmail.com, or by calling 780-231-3473.
News that mentions this candidate is listed at the bottom of the page.
Our questionnaire and candidate data retrieval processes are available in our FAQ.
News that mentions Vince Mckay
Yesterday’s Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę and GNWT bilateral in Yellowknife
June 19, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...in Yellowknife, Premier R.J. Simpson, Ministers Caroline Wawzonek, Caitlin Cleveland, Lucy Kuptana, Jay Macdonald, Vince McKay, and Lesa Semmler convened with the Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę Government’s Ɂekw’ahtı̨dǝ́ Danny Gaudet, Ɂekw’ahtı̨ Raymond Taneton, and Délı̨nę...
Wildfire near Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., still being held at bay; territory to hold fire briefing
June 17, 2024
CBC North - ...at 12 MT. Fort Good Hope Chief Collin Pierrot, Environment and Climate Change Minister Jay Macdonald and Municipal and Community Affairs Minister Vince McKay are expected to be in attendance. You can watch a livestream of the update...
MLAs want GNWT to back temporary housing in Enterprise
June 16, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs has told uninsured residents of Enterprise they will not receive financial help to rebuild. Vince McKay, minister for the department, told the legislature on Thursday that uninsured residents from Enterprise who lost their homes are currently being...
MLAs call for assembly to close municipal funding gap
June 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...had no funding to address that problem. Weyallon Armstrong said on Monday the community has had to find other funding for the work. Maca minister Vince McKay, a former councillor in Hay River, said his department currently provides more than $120 million annually to community governments. He said the...
After Fort Resolution fire, MLA wants more emergency supports
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...what happened in Enterprise,” he said, referring to extensive damage to that community from a wildfire in August 2023. Community affairs minister Vince McKay said Fort Resolution’s emergency plan is “continually being worked on,” with a draft expected to be complete early next month. The cause of...
Water didn’t come easy as Fort Resolution, N.W.T., battled weekend duplex fire
May 27, 2024
CBC North - ...lake's low water. Those lines struggled to keep with demand, he said, and N.W.T. fire helicopters helped put out the fire with buckets of water. Vince McKay, the territory's minister of municipal and community affairs, said the water plant was operating as designed but with a capacity for 129,000 litres...
Is the NWT’s emergency chain of command working?
May 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...prepare for emergencies, including hosting workshops. “The door’s always open with Maca and the emergency plan stuff,” communities minister Vince McKay said during a public briefing. McKay told Cabin Radio he is confident the response to future emergencies will be “a lot smoother and better.”...
‘I’m alarmed’: N.W.T. MLAs question minister on emergency plan updates
April 24, 2024
CBC North - ...think any of us can or should pretend that somehow the city of Yellowknife as a local authority is going to manage that on its own," she said. Vince McKay, the minister of community and municipal affairs, said the emergency plan is meant to be a "territory-wide" plan" and doesn't go into specifics for...
These three people want to be the NWT’s Conservative candidate
April 24, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...from here has not yet been made public by the Conservatives. ‘We need stability’ Schumann, a former NWT industry minister who lost out to Vince McKay in the battle to become Hay River South MLA last fall, said the time was right to try federal politics. “There was always some talk about me...
Firefighter numbers returning to normal in Fort Resolution, N.W.T.
March 7, 2024
CBC North - ...the Feb. 8 session of the legislature that the community had no firefighters. Edjericon asked Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA) Minister Vince McKay to work with the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation chief and council and Arthur Beck, president of the Fort Resolution Métis Government, to put a...
NWT’s new ministers face community leaders’ annual ‘bear pit’
March 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...of millions of dollars – between the territorial funding provided to communities and the funding those communities expect. Communities minister Vince McKay said closing the gap would “take a lot more than just our government.” “I have to work closely with the cabinet to try to get some more...
Does the NWT’s Lotteries Act need to change?
February 25, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...could transform the territory’s economy and saying it’s a “cornerstone of our northern culture.” Municipal and community affairs minister Vince McKay agreed the Lotteries Act needs a refresh and said he’s willing to take a look at it. However, McKay cautioned any changes to the act – a...
Live: MLAs pass motion calling for wildfire public inquiry
February 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...explaining how that aligns with the Simpson government’s stated intent to work more closely with Indigenous leaders. Even so, Jay Macdonald and Vince McKay – two cabinet members who were residents of Fort Smith and Hay River respectively, better known for their careers in municipal politics at the...
Live: MLAs debating wildfire inquiry ahead of vote
February 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...between an inquiry and a third-party independent review," he says. He thinks a review will draw "probably the same" conclusions as an inquiry. Vince McKay, the Hay River South MLA who had called for some sort of independent review before becoming a cabinet member, rises to speak. (He's now the Maca...
N.W.T. premier says public wildfire inquiry could cost millions and grind gov’t to a halt
February 14, 2024
CBC North - ...at is going to fulfil those goals. I do have to bring up that when you were campaigning for premier you were asked by the now MACA minister, Vince McKay, if you would support a public inquiry and you said yes, you said that you would. And you said you know it can't be a run-of-the-mill review, it...