Firefighters battling a wildfire near the capital of the Northwest Territories shifted from defence to offence, as the legislative assembly is set to be recalled to consider a law delaying the upcoming territorial election.
Slightly more than one third of the $444.5 million in contracts the Northwest Territories government entered into last fiscal year did not go out to competition. And former Government of the Northwest Territories bureaucrats continue to be popular choices when the government hand picks its contractors.
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Four months after receiving the results of a workplace review, the Legislative Assembly has issued an action plan that outlines all the ways it plans to address problems in the Office of the Clerk.
"I’d like to state that I think it’s disgusting that the minister would characterize my wanting to advocate for my constituents and residents of this territory as collecting horror stories that I find gratifying,” Katrina Nokleby said in the legislature Tuesday.