Joseph "Joe" L. Handley,MLA,is a former teacher,politician and civil servant and was the tenth premier of the Northwest Territories.
Patrick George Binns,is a Canadian diplomat,the 30th premier of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007 and Canadian Ambassador to Ireland from 2007 to 2010.
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.
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.
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.
Sandy Lee is a South Korean-born-Canadian lawyer and politician,who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1999 to 2011.
Jane Mary "Ostler" Groenewegen is a territorial level politician from northern Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Charles Dent is a Canadian politician,is a former radio station manager,a volunteer fire fighter,a former municipal level politician and a long serving cabinet minister in the Northwest Territories territorial government.
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.
Kelvin Ng is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature.
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.
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.
