Should the GNWT spend more on medical travel escorts? – Cabin Radio
February 12, 2026
“It’s medical travel, let’s go!”
So begins the chorus of Yellowknife band Upper Mall Rats’ song Medical Travel, and the theme of several MLAs’ lines of questioning in the current sitting of the Legislative Assembly.
The “particularly raucous” song received a shoutout from Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse in the House as he praised the second Still Dark music festival. MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon – who make up a self-styled “independent members caucus” – have also spent multiple days asking the territory to update its policies and provide more funding for medical travel escorts.
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