Glenda Vardy Dell will be the first college president who is not also a senior bureaucrat since 2017. She also brings nursing and education experience in small N.W.T. communities to the job.
Reinstate N.W.T. Language Bureau, legislative committee recommends
Last March, Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty was silenced because a Tłı̨chǫ interpreter was not present in the house. A legislative committee suggested Tuesday that shouldn t happen again.
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Committee revisited a 2020 incident when no Tłı̨chǫ interpreter was available, and the house carried on
Posted: Feb 10, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 10
In March of 2020, MLA Jackson Lafferty was asked to apologize after the Speaker ruled he had made comments that were inappropriate and unparliamentary in the house. He declined because no Tlicho language interpreter was available. (Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada)
But
a May 27 confidence motion citing concerns with Nokleby s performance the first attempt to push her out of cabinet
Initially, a vocal contingent of supporters vouched for Nokleby. An
online petition to Save Minister Katrina Nokleby garnered nearly 1,500 signatures and Cochrane expressed her complete confidence in the minister.
But Nokleby faced additional ire this summer when
plucked Procurement Shared Services, which deals with such contracts, out of Nokleby s hands and placed it into those of Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek.
Nokleby was, eventually,
In the legislature, she decried a toxic culture of secrecy [that] has allowed my character and professionalism to be disparaged, while not allowing me to respond, reply, or defend myself.