The federal election, so far, has been all about the money: $90,000 paid to quiet Mike Duffy, and locally, a $14 million promise from the prime minister’s to chip-seal 68 km of road to Dennis Bevington’s home turf in Fort Smith. Questions from testimony at Senator Duffy’s trial followed Stephen Harper all the way to
With the federal election now underway, the NWT Liberals are getting their house in order and gearing up to choose a candidate this Saturday. Members of the NWT Liberal riding association (who joined before the August 3rd cut-off date) will choose between former Yellowknife City Councillor Gail Cyr and former MLA (and brother of premier
Before its bankruptcy in May 2013, Dowland Construction was Inuvik’s home-grown success story. Its failure was felt across the North, from Iqaluit where it was rebuilding igloo-shaped St. Jude’s for the Arctic Diocese to hospital projects in Whitehorse and, to a lesser extent, even by subcontractors in Yellowknife. Dowland had liabilities of $135 million against
Michael McLeod confirmed his intention Tuesday to seek the Liberal nomination in the Northwest Territories, and immediately moved to the front in a three-way race. (EDGE broke the news that he would be running back in late May.) The former territorial MLA and cabinet minister, and brother of Premier Bob McLeod, is better-known than declared
The ‘official’ announcement will be in the next edition of Bob McLeod’s Yellowknife South constituency newsletter, but the premier let it slip on the weekend that he isn’t retiring from political life. At the MLA barbeque during the Float Plane Fly-in on July 12, McLeod confirmed a rumour that first surfaced more than a month
Michael McLeod, then-minister of Public Works and Services, left, with Chuck Strahl in 2010. The federal election in the Northwest Territories is about to get closer and hotter with the arrival of June and the anticipated entry of a star Liberal candidate in what has been a mostly sedate procession to the October 19 vote.
The last time I wrote about this fall’s federal election, the Liberal Party was flying high in national polls, the NDP was sputtering and the Conservatives had their reliable third of the electorate locked up. That was four months ago. Things are a bit different these days. In case you hadn’t heard, the NDP is
With a tentative federal election date set for October 19, the deluge of door knocking and lawn signs is still months away. However, for the three main parties the search for a winning candidate is well underway. The group may very well change in the coming months (and persistent rumours of a surprise spring election
On EDGE: Opinion Some time this year, there will be a federal election. Exactly when the writ will drop remains a matter of some conjecture, with the governing Conservatives insisting they’re holding to the scheduled October date, and some speculation that the Tories will pull the trigger this spring, after the federal budget and before
Nothing says election year more clearly than visits by political leaders to remote corners of the country. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair dropped in on Iqaluit last year, and this week Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will visit Yellowknife and Inuvik. The Northwest Territories Liberals are hoping Trudeau’s journey to the NWT
EDGE has been profiling each new candidate for the 2015 NWT territorial elections, in Yellowknife electoral districts. You’ll find links to those profiles below(with the exception of YK North’s Sean Erasmus, who has not responded to our request for an interview) Frame Lake Roy Erasmus Jan Fullerton Kevin O’Reilly David Wasylciw Great Slave Glen Abernethy