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.
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Positions Filled for NWT Executive Council
December 13, 2023
My Yellow Knife Now - ...NWT; Minister Responsible for the Status of Women Hon. Jay Macdonald – Minister of Environment and Climate Change - Advertisement - Hon. Vince McKay – Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs; Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission; Minister Responsible...
Portfolios announced for N.W.T.’s new cabinet ministers
December 12, 2023
CBC North - ...Macdonald is the minister for Environment and Climate Change; Lucy Kuptana will be responsible for Housing NWT, as well as the Status of Women; Vince McKay is the minister for Municipal and Community Affairs, and will be responsible for the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission as well as the...
RJ Simpson announces new cabinet’s portfolios
December 12, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...being the minister of executive and Indigenous affairs and government house leader. Caitlin Cleveland becomes the education and industry minister. Vince McKay assumes responsibility for municipal and community affairs. Caroline Wawzonek, the finance and industry minister under Cochrane, retains finance...
GNWT cabinet portfolios announced
December 12, 2023
NNSL Media - ...Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. Thebacha MLA Jay MacDonald is now the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Hay River South MLA Vince McKay becomes Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission and Minister...
R.J. Simpson elected Premier of the Northwest Territories
December 8, 2023
CKLB 101.9 - ...From the North, Nunakput MLA Lucy Kuptana and Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA Lesa Semmler; From the South, Thebacha MLA Jay MacDonald and Hay River South MLA Vince McKay; And from Yellowknife, Kam Lake MLA Caitilin Cleveland and Yellowknife South MLA Caroline Wawzonek. Only Wawzonek has experience in cabinet. Seven...
‘He’s got a battle, but this group seems pretty good’
December 8, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...We have to work together,” he said. Simpson’s cabinet features Wawzonek, Lesa Semmler, Caitlin Cleveland, Lucy Kuptana, Jay Macdonald and Vince McKay. As premier, Simpson must now assign portfolios to each minister. The premier and cabinet will be formally sworn in on Friday morning. Aastha...
Legislative assembly elects six to cabinet
December 7, 2023
NNSL Media - ...been elected by secret ballot. Members of the legislative assembly elected six cabinet members shortly after 3 p.m. on Dec. 7: Caroline Wawzonek, Vince McKay, Lucy Kuptana, Lesa Semmler, Jay MacDonald and Caitlin Cleveland. Of those, only Wawzonek has previously sat in cabinet. Members were able to...
Live: RJ Simpson is new NWT premier, cabinet also chosen
December 7, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...majority among the 19 voting MLAs. Simpson will be joined in cabinet by Wawzonek, Lesa Semmler, Caitlin Cleveland, Lucy Kuptana, Jay Macdonald and Vince McKay. “We’re no longer in an era where the GNWT thinks it’s the boss and is doing everything,” Simpson said, briefly addressing reporters after...
Housing confusion leaves Enterprise family ‘nowhere to go’
November 28, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...and residents needing emergency housing should be “good until the end of January.” The Clearys reached out to newly elected Hay River South MLA Vince McKay and Dehcho MLA Sheryl Yakeleya. Natasha Cleary says both have agreed to discuss the family’s situation at the legislature once it reconvenes. (The...
What your new MLAs say they want for the Northwest Territories
November 28, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...security and the healthcare and the housing to residents that they need. We need to focus our efforts, get things done and not do things halfway. Vince McKay, Hay River South My community of Hay River and our neighbours are hurting. We are losing families to the south. They are moving because they...
In pictures: MLAs are sworn in on a new note of optimism
November 24, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...they’re the ones that voted them in.” Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse, right. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Hay River MLAs RJ Simpson, left, and Vince McKay. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Expectations are the next thing MLAs must jointly tackle. A priority-setting exercise that’s likely to last until...
20th Legislative Assembly Officially Sworn In
November 24, 2023
My Yellow Knife Now - ...their new stations official. The new MLAs are: – Sheryl Yakeleya for Dehcho – Julian Morse for Frame Lake – Kate Reid for Great Slave – Vince McKay for Hay River South – R.J. Simpson for Hay River North – Denny Rogers for Inuvik Boot Lake – Lesa Semmler for Inuvik Twin Lake – George...
Majority of MLA-elects want addiction treatment facilities in the N.W.T.
November 20, 2023
CBC North - ...support a treatment facility comparable to what exists in the south as the N.W.T. already has a difficult time attracting medical professionals. Vince McKay, Hay River South MLA-elect, said he supports a trauma treatment facility in addition to regional programs. Jay Macdonald, Thebacha MLA-elect, said...
There’s a line forming to be in the next NWT cabinet
November 17, 2023
Cabin Radio - ...Weyallon Armstrong) told us they have some interest in being a minister. Of the other five, Julian Morse said he hadn’t thought that far ahead. Vince McKay said he wouldn’t comment yet post-election (ahead of polling day, he had said he wasn’t interested in a cabinet position). Denny Rodgers said he...
Election 2023: Residents vote for change as seven incumbents ousted
November 15, 2023
CKLB 101.9 - Only four incumbents defeated their challengers as more than 10,000 cast their votes. New faces to the Legislative Assembly include former Yellowknife city councillors Julian Morse and Shauna Morgan, and deputy Mayor of Fort Smith Jay MacDonald. Also returning are several past MLAs who were defeated in the last election, including Yellowknife Centre’s Robert Hawkins, Range Lake’s Kieron Testart, and Sahtu’s Daniel McNeely. According to the unofficial results, just over 10,900 voters turned out for the election, or about one quarter of the population. Here are the unofficial results of the election, according to Elections NWT (bold indicates elected, * indicates incumbent).