2023 NWT Election
Denny Rodgers
Candidate in the Inuvik Boot Lake Inuvik race.
Denny can be reached at DennyRodgers2023@gmail.com, or by calling 867-678-0646.
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MLAs pass capital budget despite gripes
November 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...greater say in decision-making. “We can’t keep doing the things we’ve always done and expect a different result,” said Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers. “We want you to take some bold steps and do some bold things and change the course.” Other MLAs said while the capital plan failed to include...
Inuvik, N.W.T., business owners say liquor price hike took them by surprise
November 4, 2024
CBC North - ...most expensive time for businesses in Inuvik, with little tourism happening. Earlier this week in the Legislative Assembly, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers asked why the increase is only in Inuvik. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek replied that the increase is due to a new contract negotiation with...
N.W.T. assembly passes capital budget despite concerns over priorities
November 1, 2024
CBC North - ...long-term care facilities. The budget passed with cabinet voting in favour, along with MLAs Danny McNeely, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Kate Reid and Denny Rodgers. Voting against the budget were MLAs Robert Hawkins, Shauna Morgan, Kieron Testart, Julian Morse and George Nerysoo. The finance minister...
NWT’s regular MLAs want capital budget to better reflect priorities
October 24, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...projects in the coming fiscal year. Reading from a strongly worded report by a committee of regular MLAs on Wednesday, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers said they won’t approve that budget without greater commitments to address the territory’s healthcare and housing crises. “Committee has...
N.W.T. MLAs won’t support capital plan without more money for housing and health care
October 24, 2024
CBC North - ...been calling for more attention to housing and health care — two of this assembly's four priorities. In the legislature Wednesday, Inuvik MLA Denny Rodgers tabled a statement on the housing and health-care crisis in the territory. The report is from the standing committee on accountability and...
Noise, partying and deaths at Tuk home reported to rental office
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...ordered to pay almost $57,000 to the housing authority and an eviction order was issued. Cost of maintaining units Last week, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers said the town’s public housing was in need of money for care and maintenance. Rodgers also alluded to problems related to drugs in some Inuvik...
Imperial should ‘step up,’ minister says as MLAs debate Sahtu fuel crisis
October 18, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...It’s not that they want to leave. They can’t stay,” said Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. “We have no choice,” said Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers. “Would it be great to be able to get that funding from the federal government? Of course it would,” he said. (The federal government has been...
Peter Clarkson running for mayor of Inuvik
October 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...believes the Town of Inuvik can better work with the Gwich’in, Inuvialuit, Inuvik Native Band, Métis and the town’s two MLAs, Lesa Semmler and Denny Rodgers, to “share information and look at what some of the overall priorities for the community are.” He also wants to find ways to help local...
After weeks of back and forth, N.W.T. Legislative Assembly passes budget
June 14, 2024
CBC North - ...$1.5 million for the Community Access Program and funding to continue the operations of the Fort Smith Correctional Centre. Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers called discussions around the budget "a balance." Denny Rodgers, MLA for Inuvik Boot Lake, was pleased the budget passed but still wants to see...
NWT politicians call for mental health crisis intervention team
June 14, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...some 2,268 calls to shelters between April 2022 and April 2024, Hawkins said, only three percent of which resulted in charges. Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers, sharing his support for the motion, said: “I want RCMP to be RCMP.” An RCMP vehicle behind police tape on April 17, 2024. Ollie Williams/Cabin...
NWT’s 20th Assembly passes its first budget
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...MLAs. That included money to reverse the planned closure of the men’s unit at Fort Smith’s jail and reinstate some midwifery funding. MLAs Denny Rodgers, Danny McNeely, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Sheryl Yakeleya and Julian Morse spoke about the importance of compromise and collaborative process between...
Can the NWT police its way out of the drug crisis?
June 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...response to these predators, we are not going to be able to keep communities safe.” MLAs Danny McNeely, George Nerysoo, Sheryl Yakeleya and Denny Rodgers spoke in favour of increasing RCMP resources. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon introduced a motion calling for a canine unit to be...
MLAs call for assembly to close municipal funding gap
June 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that affects communities all across the territory and I hope we make some solid progress in this assembly,” she said. Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rodgers, previously a councillor and mayor in the town, said it’s “very important” for the territory to bridge the funding gap and ensure funding is...
No free ticket home for residents injured while outside NWT, says minister
May 30, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...K’e will have a teacher for its high school next year. The last full-time teacher left in November, leaving substitutes to fill the gap. And Denny Rodgers, MLA for Inuvik Boot Lake, praised the Gwichin Tribal Council’s re-opening of Gwichin Wellness Camp. Federal funding was received to renovate the...
‘Look outside the box.’ MLA calls for changes to barging service
May 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...challenges in recent years. “The issues with low water, problems with our transportation corridor are likely not to go away any time soon,” Denny Rodgers told the legislature on Monday. “I think it’s time we started to look outside the box logistically.” Resupply barges for Tulita and Norman...