GNWT formally rejects MLAs’ call for new emergency management agency – Cabin Radio

November 7, 2025

The NWT government has issued what is likely to be its final rejection of calls to establish a new, standalone emergency management agency.

Creating a year-round agency was a key recommendation of an independent review of the NWT’s 2023 wildfires and evacuations.

The GNWT rejected that recommendation, saying a separate year-round agency “would be costly, duplicative, and difficult to staff.”

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