Joseph "Joe" L. Handley,MLA,is a former teacher,politician and civil servant and was the tenth premier of the Northwest Territories.
The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly,or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories,is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a unicameral elected body that creates and amends law in the Northwest Territories. Permanently located in Yellowknife since 1993,the assembly was founded in 1870 and became active in 1872 with the first appointments from the Government of Canada.
Transgender rights in Canada,including procedures for changing legal gender and protections from discrimination,vary among provinces and territories,due to Canada's nature as a federal state. According to the 2021 Canadian census,59,460 Canadians identify as transgender. Canada was ranked third in Asher &Lyric's Global Trans Rights Index in 2023.
Denis Paradis is a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brome—Missisquoi from 2015 until 2019 and previously from 1995 to 2006. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada,Paradis was Minister of State for Financial Institutions from 2003 to 2004.
Keith Calder Norton was a Canadian politician and public servant. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985,and was until 2005 the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Ian Gilmour Scott was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1992 who represented the downtown Toronto ridings of St. David and St. George—St. David. He was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson serving as Attorney General of Ontario and Solicitor General. Along with Robert Nixon and Sean Conway,he was considered to be "the intellectual heart and soul" of the Peterson cabinet.
Canadian lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBTQ) rights are some of the most extensive in the world. Same-sex sexual activity,in private between consenting adults,was decriminalized in Canada on June 27,1969,when the Criminal Law Amendment Act,1968–69 was brought into force upon royal assent. In a landmark decision in 1995,Egan v Canada,the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual orientation is constitutionally protected under the equality clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 2005,Canada became the fourth country in the world,and the first in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage. In 2022,Canada was the third country in the world,and the first in North America,to fully ban conversion therapy nationwide for both minors and adults.
The 2007 Northwest Territories general election took place on October 1,2007. Nineteen members were elected to the Legislative Assembly from single member districts conducted under first-past-the-post voting system.
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Canada. For a broad overview of LGBT history in Canada see LGBT history in Canada.
Henry Zoe is a former politician from Northwest Territories,Canada.
Jeannie Marie-Jewell is a territorial level politician from northern Canada. She served as the first female Speaker in the history of the Northwest Territories legislature.
Brian Wyndham Lewis is a former educator,deputy minister in the Northwest Territories government,elected politician and speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislature.
Michael McLeod is a Canadian politician,currently serving as a member of Parliament representing the Northwest Territories. He was first elected in the 2015 Canadian federal election,unseating Dennis Bevington,who was the incumbent New Democratic Party MP for the riding. McLeod was a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories,Canada,as well as the former mayor of Fort Providence.
Mark Evaloarjuk,CM was a northern Canadian business pioneer and politician from Igloolik,Nunavut. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1975 until 1983,and served as President of Arctic Cooperatives Ltd. In 1981,he became inducted as member of the Order of Canada.
Michael Alan Ballantyne was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. He was a city councillor for Yellowknife City Council from 1978 and in 1979 became mayor until his resignation in 1983. He served as a Member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1983 to 1995.
Titus Allooloo is a business man and former territorial level politician from Nunavut,Canada. He served as a member and cabinet Minister of the Northwest Territories Legislature through two terms from 1987 until 1995.
Robert R. McLeod is a former Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 2007 to 2019,and served as the 12th premier of the Northwest Territories,from October 26,2011 to October 24,2019.
This article gives a broad overview of lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history in Canada. LGBT activity was considered a crime from the colonial period in Canada until 1969,when Bill C-150 was passed into law. However,there is still discrimination despite anti-discrimination law. For a more detailed listing of individual incidents in Canadian LGBT history,see also Timeline of LGBT history in Canada.
The 2015 Northwest Territories general election was held November 23,2015. Under the territory's fixed election date legislation,the election was supposed to be held on October 5,2015,however,since the federal election date of October 19,2015,overlapped with that date,the N.W.T. government moved the date of the territorial election. The election selected 19 members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
